Inventor · Redondo Beach, CA, US

Jon S. McElvain

45Patents
6h-index
34Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 21, 1998 → Aug 11, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6798920B1 Method for half tone phase matching at run boundaries Electricity 24 Expired
US7826095B2 System and method for estimating color separation misregistration utilizing frequency-shifted halftone patterns that form a moiré pattern Physics 15 Active
US8971658B2 Edge contrast adjustment filter Physics 8 Active
US7710609B2 Page edge correction systems and methods Electricity 7 Active
US7391536B2 Method for smooth trapping suppression of small graphical objects using color interpolation Physics 6 Active
US6844942B2 Method for trapping raster data in a run-length encoded form Electricity 6 Expired
US7382494B2 Method for tag plane growth and contraction for improving object edge rendering Physics 5 Expired
US7688473B2 Tinted edge enhancement using harmonic halftones for the boundary pixels Electricity 5 Active
US7965422B2 Super resolution encoded microprinting through postscript Physics 5 Active
US7271934B2 Method for smooth trap suppression of small graphical objects using run length encoded data Electricity 5 Expired
US7295346B2 Methods and apparatus for antialiasing using selective implementation of logical and averaging filter operations Physics 5 Expired
US7894109B2 System and method for characterizing spatial variance of color separation misregistration Electricity 5 Active
US8929654B2 Spectral image processing Physics 4 Active
US8189237B2 Distributing a SRE codes in halftone pixels pattern in supercell Electricity 4 Active
US8947549B2 Spectral synthesis for image capturing device processing Physics 4 Active
US7339701B2 Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels Electricity 4 Expired
US8228559B2 System and method for characterizing color separation misregistration utilizing a broadband multi-channel scanning module Physics 4 Active
US8270049B2 System and method for high resolution characterization of spatial variance of color separation misregistration Electricity 4 Active
US11412154B2 Auto exposure of spatially-multiplexed-exposure high-dynamic-range image sensor metric and adjustment Electricity 3 Active
US7146043B2 Method for smooth trap suppression of small graphical objects Physics 3 Expired
US7580155B2 Tools to embed information into digital visual works Electricity 3 Active
US11158032B2 Perceptually preserving scene-referred contrasts and chromaticities Physics 3 Active
US7324696B2 Method for tag plane growth and contraction using run length encoded data Electricity 2 Expired
US6757072B1 Method for trapping suppression for thin graphical objects using run length encoded data Physics 2 Expired
US8274717B2 System and method for characterizing color separation misregistration Electricity 2 Active

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