Inventor · Hino, JP

Kanichi Matsumoto

9Patents
6h-index
13Co-inventors
52Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 22, 1998 → Nov 9, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6677992B1 Imaging apparatus offering dynamic range that is expandable by weighting two image signals produced during different exposure times with two coefficients whose sum is 1 and adding them up Electricity 126 Expired
US6184922A Endoscopic imaging system in which still image-specific or motion picture-specific expansion unit can be coupled to digital video output terminal in freely uncoupled manner Electricity 98 Expired
US7119830B2 Endoscopic imaging system making it possible to detachably attach expansion unit having external expansion facility and add expansion facility for improving capability of system Electricity 65 Expired
US6441845B1 Image pickup apparatus enlarging a dynamic range of an image pickup signal Electricity 44 Expired
US7221388B2 Endoscope image sensing method and apparatus Electricity 23 Expired
US6538687B1 Endoscopic imaging system making it possible to detachably attach expansion unit having external expansion facility and add expansion facility for improving capability of system Electricity 14 Expired
US6456317B1 Endoscopic apparatus Electricity 6 Expired
US7167196B2 Endoscopic imaging system making it possible to detachably attach expansion unit having external expansion facility and add expansion facility for improving capability of system Electricity 1 Expired
USRE41467E1 Endoscopic imaging system in which still image-specific or motion picture-specific expansion unit can be coupled to digital video output terminal in freely uncoupled manner General 1 Expired

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