Bruce E. Flinchbaugh
23Patents
12h-index
16Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 3, 1984 → Oct 24, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4846928A | Process and apparatus for detecting aberrations in production process operations | Electricity | 123 | Expired |
| US6044168A | Model based faced coding and decoding using feature detection and eigenface coding | Physics | 118 | Expired |
| US7038715B1 | Digital still camera with high-quality portrait mode | Electricity | 104 | Expired |
| US6816184B1 | Method and apparatus for mapping a location from a video image to a map | Electricity | 96 | Expired |
| US4685070A | System and method for displaying, and interactively excavating and examining a three dimensional volume | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US5249128A | System and method for determining the distance to an energy emitting object | Performing Operations; Transporting | 63 | Expired |
| US5265172A | Method and apparatus for producing optical flow using multi-spectral images | Physics | 60 | Expired |
| US4835528A | Cursor control system | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US7386170B2 | Image object ranking | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4861419A | Apparatus and method for production process diagnosis using dynamic time warping | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US5552825A | Color resolution enhancement by using color camera and methods | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4672546A | Systems for extracting horizons contained in a 3-D network of turnings and converting the horizons to a 2-D format | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US4633402A | Method and apparatus for automatically producing representations of three-dimensional horizons from processed seismic data | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US5142659A | Estimation of local surface geometry from relative range images for object recognition | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US4633401A | Method and apparatus for automatically determining pairs of turnings related to the same seismic event in adjacent seismic traces | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US4727488A | Method and apparatus for detecting seismic events by identifying crossings in the Nth derivative of a waveform | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US6937651B1 | Method and apparatus for compressing image information | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US5719774A | System and method for relating disparate data models of physical objects | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US6019496A | System and method for relating disparate data models of physical objects | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US6008853A | Sub-frame decoder with area dependent update rate for digital camcorder transmission standard | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US5471544A | Condition number-based smoothins of optical flow fields | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US4703426A | Method and apparatus for reviewing and modifying horizons of a three-dimensional seismic volume | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US9734429B2 | Method, system and computer program product for detecting an obstacle with a camera | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.