Inventor · Midland School, CA, US

David Bjorn Roe

39Patents
22h-index
35Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1980 → May 3, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8170241B2 Mobile tele-presence system with a microphone system Physics 1,411 Active
US6911916B1 Method and apparatus for accessing medical data over a network Human Necessities 1,377 Expired
US5329608A Automatic speech recognizer Physics 306 Expired
US6366886B1 System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition services via a packet network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 260 Expired
US7408439B2 Method and apparatus for accessing medical data over a network Human Necessities 253 Expired
US6078886A System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition services via a packet network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 217 Expired
US6604077B2 System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition and text to speech services via a packet network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 136 Expired
US6856960B1 System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech services via a packet network Electricity 106 Expired
US8897920B2 Tele-presence robot system with software modularity, projector and laser pointer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 92 Active
US8670017B2 Remote presence system including a cart that supports a robot face and an overhead camera Electricity 91 Active
US8836751B2 Tele-presence system with a user interface that displays different communication links Electricity 90 Active
US5737724A Speech recognition employing a permissive recognition criterion for a repeated phrase utterance Physics 81 Expired
US8861750B2 Mobile tele-presence system with a microphone system Physics 80 Active
US5737723A Confusable word detection in speech recognition Physics 61 Expired
US9776327B2 Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Active
US4972485A Speaker-trained speech recognizer having the capability of detecting confusingly similar vocabulary words Physics 58 Expired
US8209184B1 System and method of providing generated speech via a network Electricity 44 Active
US9174342B2 Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Active
US4340777A Dynamic position locating system Physics 40 Expired
US7590151B2 Method and apparatus for aligning time references when separated by an unreliable data packet network Electricity 27 Active
US7139715B2 System and method for providing remote automatic speech recognition and text to speech services via a packet network Electricity 24 Expired
US4355202A Mounting arrangement for a position locating system Physics 24 Expired
US9089972B2 Remote presence system including a cart that supports a robot face and an overhead camera Electricity 22 Active
US10871889B2 Tele-presence system with a user interface that displays different communication links Electricity 10 Active
US10780582B2 Social behavior rules for a medical telepresence robot Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.