Mitsuru Higuchi
30Patents
15h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 10, 1987 → Sep 26, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6903761B1 | Electronic endoscope system allowing accurate delay time to be set | Electricity | 100 | Expired |
| US6334845B1 | Electronic-endoscope light source unit for setting shading period | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US5929900A | Signal processor circuit for endoscope systems of all-pixels readout type | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US7420586B2 | Electronic endoscope apparatus which stores image data on recording medium | Electricity | 66 | Active |
| US7042488B2 | Electronic endoscope for highlighting blood vessel | Human Necessities | 65 | Expired |
| US7123288B2 | Electronic endoscope eliminating influence of light distribution in optical zooming | Human Necessities | 65 | Expired |
| US7255676B2 | Electronic endoscope apparatus which stores image data on recording medium | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US7683927B2 | Electronic endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 63 | Active |
| US6002425A | All pixels read type electronic endoscope system | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6219091A | All-pixels reading type electronic endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6489987B1 | Electronic endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US6078353A | All-pixels reading type electronic endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US6597390B1 | Electronic endoscope apparatus | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US6254531A | Electronic-endoscope light quantity controlling apparatus | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US6707485B1 | Light control system for electronic endoscopes | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US6734894B1 | Electronic-endoscope light quantity controlling apparatus | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US6956602B2 | Electronic endoscope for highlighting blood vessel | Human Necessities | 12 | Expired |
| US4789875A | Variable focus camera | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7965878B2 | Endoscopic system with spectral image forming circuit | Human Necessities | 7 | Active |
| US7850599B2 | Endoscope apparatus | Human Necessities | 6 | Active |
| US6508760B2 | Endoscope for optically variable power using moving time as position information | Human Necessities | 6 | Expired |
| US6932762B2 | Endoscope having red component cut filter | Human Necessities | 5 | Expired |
| US6234959A | Electronic-endoscope light quantity controlling apparatus | Human Necessities | 3 | Expired |
| US6413211B1 | Electronic-endoscope light source unit for setting shading period | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6387046B2 | Electronic endoscope apparatus for discriminating optically variable power from electronically variable power | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.