Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Myron D. Flickner

33Patents
18h-index
67Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 22, 1988 → Jun 6, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5751286A Image query system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 417 Expired
US6577329B1 Method and system for relevance feedback through gaze tracking and ticker interfaces Physics 353 Expired
US7120880B1 Method and system for real-time determination of a subject's interest level to media content Physics 259 Expired
US6578962B1 Calibration-free eye gaze tracking Physics 129 Expired
US6204828A Integrated gaze/manual cursor positioning system Physics 129 Expired
US5647058A Method for high-dimensionality indexing in a multi-media database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 125 Expired
US6279128A Autonomous system for recognition of patterns formed by stored data during computer memory scrubbing Physics 113 Expired
US6659611B2 System and method for eye gaze tracking using corneal image mapping Physics 110 Expired
US6393136B1 Method and apparatus for determining eye contact Physics 107 Expired
US7688349B2 Method of detecting and tracking groups of people Physics 76 Expired
US7988045B2 Portable device-based shopping checkout Physics 48 Active
US6282553A Gaze-based secure keypad entry system Electricity 47 Expired
US6539100B1 Method and apparatus for associating pupils with subjects Physics 38 Expired
US4791676A Method and means for efficiently handling boundary conditions in connected component labeling Physics 33 Expired
US8199966B2 System and method for providing contemporaneous product information with animated virtual representations Physics 29 Active
US7448542B1 Method for detecting a non-scan at a retail checkout station Physics 24 Active
US5185811A Automated visual inspection of electronic component leads prior to placement Physics 23 Expired
US7503490B1 Non-scan detect system for a retail checkout station Physics 19 Active
US5136660A Apparatus and method for computing the radon transform of digital images Physics 17 Expired
US6154868A Method and means for computationally efficient on-the-fly error correction in linear cyclic codes using ultra-fast error location Electricity 14 Expired
US6466257B1 Method and tool for measurement of roll static attitude of sliders in a magnetic recording head stack assembly Physics 9 Expired
US6345376B1 Method and means for computationally efficient on-the-fly error correction in linear cyclic codes using ultra-fast error location Electricity 8 Expired
US8794524B2 Smart scanning system Physics 5 Active
US7889068B2 Alarm solution for securing shopping checkout Physics 4 Active
US9477973B2 Visually generated consumer product presentation Physics 3 Active

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