Gerard Dirk Smits
67Patents
16h-index
9Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 11, 1985 → May 8, 2025
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6125115A | Teleconferencing method and apparatus with three-dimensional sound positioning | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US7302089B1 | Autonomous optical wake-up intelligent sensor circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 64 | Expired |
| US8282222B2 | Image projector with reflected light tracking | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US7551814B1 | Optical detection of user interaction based on external light source | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Active |
| US8711370B1 | Scanning optical positioning system with spatially triangulating receivers | Human Necessities | 41 | Active |
| US8430512B2 | Photonjet scanner projector | Physics | 40 | Active |
| US9813673B2 | Holographic video capture and telepresence system | Electricity | 40 | Active |
| US9946076B2 | System and method for 3-D projection and enhancements for interactivity | Physics | 38 | Active |
| US5432913A | Computer system module | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US8573783B2 | Safety device for scanned projector and illumination systems | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US8696141B2 | Method, apparatus, and manufacture for a tracking camera or detector with fast asynchronous triggering | Physics | 31 | Active |
| US9753126B2 | Real time position sensing of objects | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US7444042B1 | Optical switch | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US10067230B2 | Fast scanning LIDAR with dynamic voxel probing | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US9377533B2 | Three-dimensional triangulation and time-of-flight based tracking systems and methods | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US8184108B2 | Apparatus and method for a folded optical element waveguide for use with light based touch screens | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US7412119B2 | Apparatus and method for making flexible waveguide substrates for use with light based touch screens | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US10261183B2 | Systems and methods for machine perception | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US10379220B1 | Hyper-resolved, high bandwidth scanned LIDAR systems | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US10331021B2 | Method, apparatus, and manufacture for a tracking camera or detector with fast asynchronous triggering | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US8971568B1 | Method, apparatus, and manufacture for document writing and annotation with virtual ink | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US9581883B2 | Method, apparatus, and manufacture for a tracking camera or detector with fast asynchronous triggering | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US9848113B2 | Multi-band biometric camera system having iris color recognition | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US11704835B2 | Dynamic calibration of 3D acquisition systems | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US10043282B2 | Machine vision for ego-motion, segmenting, and classifying objects | Electricity | 7 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.