Inventor · Pittsford, NY, US

Heemin Kwon

13Patents
11h-index
10Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 24, 1986 → Dec 10, 1996

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5644647A User-interactive reduction of scene balance failures Physics 96 Expired
US5081692A Unsharp masking using center weighted local variance for image sharpening and noise suppression Physics 77 Expired
US4745465A Digital color image processing method employing histogram normalization for tone and color reproduction Electricity 63 Expired
US5822453A Method for estimating and adjusting digital image contrast Electricity 55 Expired
US5959720A Method for color balance determination Physics 48 Expired
US5091972A System and method for reducing digital image noise Physics 41 Expired
US5563963A Digital image noise reduction of luminance and chrominance based on overlapping planar approximation Physics 34 Expired
US4945502A Digital image sharpening method using SVD block transform Physics 31 Expired
US5594816A Computer based digital image noise reduction method based on over-lapping planar approximation Physics 29 Expired
US5010504A Digital image noise suppression method using SVD block transform Physics 26 Expired
US5533149A Computer based digital image noise reduction method based on overlapping planar approximation Physics 14 Expired
US5475506A Photographic color printer Physics 4 Expired
US5398077A Method for adjusting the luminance of a color signal Electricity 4 Expired

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