Ichiro Ando
44Patents
15h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 12, 1987 → Sep 21, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4954586A | Soft ocular lens material | Physics | 199 | Expired |
| US5346946A | Ocular lens material | Human Necessities | 180 | Expired |
| US5416132A | Ocular lens material | Physics | 132 | Expired |
| US5917438A | Data storing and outputting apparatus | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US6104389A | Broadcast receiving method and broadcast receiving apparatus therefor | Electricity | 60 | Expired |
| US6391055B1 | Artificial cornea | Human Necessities | 52 | Expired |
| US5848239A | Variable-speed communication and reproduction system | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US5542008A | Method of and apparatus for compressing image representing signals | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6009108A | Multiplexer system for converting variable-length burst data streams into averaged-transfer-rate fixed-length packets | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US4999704A | System for efficiently coding a moving-picture signal, capable of selecting several different coding systems | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US8500805B2 | Method for manufacturing aphakic intraocular lens | Human Necessities | 22 | Active |
| US5866047A | Process for producing a shaped product | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 20 | Expired |
| US5790745A | Variable transfer rate control coding apparatus, reproducing apparatus and recording medium | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5418569A | Method and apparatus for predictive coding of moving images while adaptively changing the method in accordance with them | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5717641A | Method of storing data and a data storing apparatus | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US5250583A | Ocular lens material | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 15 | Expired |
| US8755117B2 | Method of manufacturing a diffraction lens other than an aphakic intraocular lens | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US5561719A | Adaptive quantization apparatus | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US9563070B2 | Diffraction-type multifocal ophthalmic lens and manufacturing method thereof | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US6101220A | Method and apparatus for limiting band of moving-picture signal | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5452453A | Rule based production system adapted for complex procedural flow | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US5173952A | Image filtering system performing transform coding of image data other than boundary picture elements of adjoining blocks | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US5689307A | Encoding and decoding systems for transmitting moving pictures | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US4904421A | Soft ocular lens and method for its preparation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US5661194A | Water-absorptive soft contact lens | Physics | 8 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.