Inventor · Stanford, CA, US

David G. Stork

80Patents
27h-index
54Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 21, 1990 → Apr 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6804659B1 Content based web advertising Physics 438 Expired
US5671282A Method and apparatus for document verification and tracking Physics 428 Expired
US6081261A Manual entry interactive paper and electronic document handling and processing system Physics 269 Expired
US5680481A Facial feature extraction method and apparatus for a neural network acoustic and visual speech recognition system Physics 204 Expired
US5781914A Converting documents, with links to other electronic information, between hardcopy and electronic formats Electricity 180 Expired
US6492981B1 Calibration of a system for tracking a writing instrument with multiple sensors Physics 179 Expired
US6181329A Method and apparatus for tracking a hand-held writing instrument with multiple sensors that are calibrated by placing the writing instrument in predetermined positions with respect to the writing surface Physics 171 Expired
US5337362A Method and apparatus for placing data onto plain paper Physics 161 Expired
US6457026B1 System to facilitate reading a document Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 141 Expired
US6201903A Method and apparatus for pen-based faxing Electricity 124 Expired
US5471207A Compression of palettized images and binarization for bitwise coding of M-ary alphabets therefor Electricity 101 Expired
US6574375B1 Method for detecting inverted text images on a digital scanning device Physics 84 Expired
US7124093B1 Method, system and computer code for content based web advertising Physics 80 Expired
US6212296A Method and apparatus for transforming sensor signals into graphical images Physics 72 Expired
US5497236A Method and apparatus for distortion correction of scanned images Electricity 69 Expired
US6104380A Direct pointing apparatus for digital displays Physics 52 Expired
US5771306A Method and apparatus for extracting speech related facial features for use in speech recognition systems Physics 52 Expired
US5621858A Neural network acoustic and visual speech recognition system training method and apparatus Physics 50 Expired
US7395501B2 Techniques for annotating portions of a document relevant to concepts of interest Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US6073118A Method for performing secure financial transactions using facsimile transmissions Electricity 46 Expired
US5710816A Method and apparatus for ensuring receipt of voicemail messages Electricity 39 Expired
US5586215A Neural network acoustic and visual speech recognition system Physics 39 Expired
US5636326A Method for operating an optimal weight pruning apparatus for designing artificial neural networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Expired
US8531581B2 Focusing and focus metrics for a plenoptic imaging system Electricity 35 Active
US5245696A Evolution and learning in neural networks: the number and distribution of learning trials affect the rate of evolution Physics 32 Expired

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