Mitsuru Maeda
130Patents
23h-index
114Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 6, 1978 → Aug 14, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5274453A | Image processing system | Physics | 142 | Expired |
| US7162101B2 | Image processing apparatus and method | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US4974071A | Color image data encoding apparatus having improved resolution/efficiency characteristics | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US6512793B1 | Data processing apparatus and method | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US6810131B2 | Information processing method and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 56 | Expired |
| US5086487A | Method and apparatus for image encoding in which reference pixels for predictive encoding can be selected based on image size | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US6486981B1 | Color image processing method and apparatus thereof | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US5138672A | Image reducing apparatus | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US5162923A | Method and apparatus for encoding frequency components of image information | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US6909810B2 | Image processing apparatus and method, and its computer program and storage medium | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US5521717A | Image processing apparatus and method therefor | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US6625316B1 | Image processing apparatus and method, and image processing system | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5341441A | Method and apparatus for coding image information, and method of creating code books | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US5933249A | Image processing apparatus and method | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US5045383A | Thermosensitive image transfer recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US6389162B2 | Image processing apparatus and method and medium | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US5157743A | Image information coding apparatus | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US5995665A | Image processing apparatus and method | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US5353062A | Method and apparatus for decoding moving images encoded by inter-frame prediction and displaying it | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6798977B2 | Image data encoding and decoding using plural different encoding circuits | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5345517A | Image reduction apparatus | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5359438A | Encoding apparatus for color image data | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5716477A | Thermal image transfer recording medium and recording method using the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US6546052B1 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US5448654A | Image reduction apparatus | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.