Andrew C. Gallagher
135Patents
29h-index
81Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 28, 1996 → Aug 16, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5818975A | Method and apparatus for area selective exposure adjustment | Electricity | 282 | Expired |
| US6438264B1 | Method for compensating image color when adjusting the contrast of a digital color image | Electricity | 222 | Expired |
| US6594388B1 | Color image reproduction of scenes with preferential color mapping and scene-dependent tone scaling | Electricity | 164 | Expired |
| US7668405B2 | Forming connections between image collections | Physics | 102 | Active |
| US6400848B1 | Method for modifying the perspective of a digital image | Physics | 100 | Expired |
| US6476865B1 | Sparsely sampled image sensing device with color and luminance photosites | Electricity | 100 | Expired |
| US7092573B2 | Method and system for selectively applying enhancement to an image | Physics | 94 | Expired |
| US6856704B1 | Method for enhancing a digital image based upon pixel color | Physics | 86 | Expired |
| US7663671B2 | Location based image classification with map segmentation | Physics | 82 | Active |
| US6707950B1 | Method for modification of non-image data in an image processing chain | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US6646246B1 | Method and system of noise removal for a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device | Electricity | 77 | Expired |
| US6813046B1 | Method and apparatus for exposure control for a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US6317521A | Method for preserving image detail when adjusting the contrast of a digital image | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US7893963B2 | Digital camera which estimates and corrects small camera rotations | Electricity | 60 | Active |
| US7327504B2 | Method of detecting clipped image pixels | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US7953690B2 | Discovering social relationships from personal photo collections | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US6778699B1 | Method of determining vanishing point location from an image | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US7336819B2 | Detection of sky in digital color images | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US7583858B2 | Image processing based on direction of gravity | Electricity | 43 | Active |
| US6728416B1 | Adjusting the contrast of a digital image with an adaptive recursive filter | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6968094B1 | Method of estimating and correcting camera rotation with vanishing point location | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US6804408B1 | Method for enhancing a digital image with noise-dependent control of texture | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US7683962B2 | Camera using multiple lenses and image sensors in a rangefinder configuration to provide a range map | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US6937775B2 | Method of enhancing the tone scale of a digital image to extend the linear response range without amplifying noise | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7711145B2 | Finding images with multiple people or objects | Physics | 31 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.