Inventor · Portland, OR, US

Larry Alan Westerman

52Patents
20h-index
26Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 3, 1997 → May 15, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6606175B1 Multi-segment light-emitting diode Electricity 200 Expired
US6529638B1 Block boundary artifact reduction for block-based image compression Electricity 169 Expired
US6857128B1 Electronic programming guide browsing system Electricity 111 Expired
US7031476B1 Method and apparatus for intelligent speaker Electricity 97 Expired
US6262773A System for conversion of interlaced video to progressive video using edge correlation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 93 Expired
US7197718B1 Interactive virtual area browser for selecting and rescaling graphical representations of displayed data Physics 86 Expired
US6753909B1 Camera with spatially adjustable variable density optical filter and method for controlling the same Electricity 68 Expired
US7231630B2 Method and system automatic control of graphical computer application appearance and execution Physics 65 Expired
US7260782B2 Method and system for generating flexible time-based control of application appearance and behavior Electricity 61 Expired
US7460037B2 Method and apparatus for replacing a portion of a first digital signal with a second digital signal Electricity 53 Active
US6385346B1 Method of display and control of adjustable parameters for a digital scanner device Physics 48 Expired
US6091767A System for improving efficiency of video encoders Electricity 44 Expired
US8176425B2 Animated screen object for annotation and selection of video sequences Electricity 42 Active
US6141056A System for conversion of interlaced video to progressive video using horizontal displacement Electricity 31 Expired
US6404443B1 Three-dimensional graphical user interface for managing screen objects Physics 30 Expired
US5839000A Automatic zoom magnification control using detection of eyelid condition Physics 27 Expired
US6326977A Rendering of YCBCR images on an RGS display device Physics 27 Expired
US6005636A System for setting user-adjustable image processing parameters in a video system Electricity 24 Expired
US6157412A System for identifying video fields generated from film sources Electricity 24 Expired
US6297848A Low-delay conversion of 3:2 pulldown video to progressive format with field averaging Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7076118B1 Document classification system Physics 18 Expired
US6826688B1 Method and apparatus for determining the identity of a digital printer from its output Electricity 17 Expired
US6377339B1 Document imaging system incorporating a selectively opaque/transparent liquid crystal platen Electricity 17 Expired
US6842262B1 Iconic printer interface providing document composition features Physics 16 Expired
US6256714A Computer system with efficient memory usage for managing multiple application programs Physics 15 Expired

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