Ichiro Masaki
20Patents
13h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 14, 1979 → Jul 28, 2006
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4987357A | Adaptive motor vehicle cruise control | Physics | 454 | Expired |
| US6977685B1 | Single-chip imager system with programmable dynamic range | Electricity | 162 | Expired |
| US4380696A | Method and apparatus for manipulator welding apparatus with vision correction for workpiece sensing | Physics | 148 | Expired |
| US6441748B1 | Road surface condition monitoring system using sensors disposed under the road | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US6411889B1 | Integrated traffic monitoring assistance, and communications system | Physics | 105 | Expired |
| US6684137B2 | Traffic accident recording system | Physics | 87 | Expired |
| US6996630B1 | Integrated network system | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US5838828A | Method and apparatus for motion estimation in a video signal | Physics | 60 | Expired |
| US5790269A | Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing a video image | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6472978B1 | Traffic system to prevent from accidents | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US4547800A | Position detecting method and apparatus | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US4492847A | Manipulator welding apparatus with sensing arrangements for weld slam tracking | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7173666B1 | System and method for displaying a non-standard aspect ratio image on a standard aspect ratio monitor | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US7570286B2 | System and method for creating composite images | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7860162B2 | Object tracking method and object tracking apparatus | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US6535118B1 | Priority controlled network | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US4348578A | Workpiece monitoring means for electric discharge working apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Expired |
| US4306144A | Work monitoring means for glow generating working apparatus with light source control | Performing Operations; Transporting | 7 | Expired |
| US7711147B2 | Time-to-contact estimation device and method for estimating time to contact | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8009206B2 | Adaptive sensitivity control, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, for a digital imager | Electricity | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.