Inventor · Woodinville, WA, US

Eric L. Brechner

11Patents
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9Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 26, 1994 → Jun 7, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6741996B1 Managing user clips Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 153 Expired
US6970859B1 Searching and sorting media clips having associated style and attributes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US6606417B1 Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US6477269B1 Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US6944332B1 Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5613049A Method for creating spatially balanced bounding volume hierarchies for use in a computer generated display of a complex structure Physics 14 Expired
US7660808B2 Automatically indexing a collection of files of a selected type Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US5825998A Method for controlling the level of detail displayed in a computer generated screen display of a complex structure Physics 12 Expired
US7194127B2 Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US7730426B2 Visual thesaurus as applied to media clip searching Physics 7 Active
US5559941A Method for smoothly maintaining a vertical orientation during computer animation Physics 5 Expired

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