Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

Mark Damon Wheeler

70Patents
13h-index
38Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: May 18, 2000 → Aug 18, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7373473B2 System and method for efficient storage and manipulation of extremely large amounts of scan data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Active
US8042056B2 Browsers for large geometric data visualization Physics 48 Active
US6771840B1 Apparatus and method for identifying the points that lie on a surface of interest Physics 47 Expired
US10816346B2 Occupancy map updates based on sensor data collected by autonomous vehicles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Active
US10845820B2 Route generation using high definition maps for autonomous vehicles Physics 39 Active
US7990397B2 Image-mapped point cloud with ability to accurately represent point coordinates Physics 39 Active
US6604068B1 System and method for concurrently modeling any element of a model Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US7643966B2 Identification of 3D surface points using context-based hypothesis testing Physics 30 Active
US7843448B2 Identification of occluded edge regions from 3D point data Physics 22 Active
US10531004B2 Lidar to camera calibration for generating high definition maps Electricity 15 Active
US6804380B1 System and method for acquiring tie-point location information on a structure Physics 14 Expired
US10401500B2 Encoding LiDAR scanned data for generating high definition maps for autonomous vehicles Physics 13 Active
US10436885B2 Calibrating sensors mounted on an autonomous vehicle Electricity 13 Active
US7995054B2 Identification of edge regions from 3D point data Physics 13 Active
US10670416B2 Traffic sign feature creation for high definition maps used for navigating autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 11 Active
US8204313B2 Rapid, spatial-data viewing and manipulating including data partition and indexing Physics 10 Active
US10897575B2 Lidar to camera calibration for generating high definition maps Electricity 10 Active
US10474164B2 Representing navigable surface boundaries of lanes in high definition maps for autonomous vehicles Physics 10 Active
US10999511B2 LIDAR and camera synchronization Electricity 9 Active
US10469753B2 Lidar and camera synchronization Electricity 8 Active
US10841496B2 Lidar to camera calibration based on edge detection Electricity 8 Active
US10429194B2 High definition map updates with vehicle data load balancing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US10598489B2 Visual odometry and pairwise alignment for high definition map creation Physics 6 Active
US10859395B2 Lane line creation for high definition maps for autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US10498966B2 Rolling shutter correction for images captured by a camera mounted on a moving vehicle Electricity 5 Active

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