Neil C. Bird
52Patents
17h-index
33Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 14, 1988 → Nov 19, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6373454B1 | Active matrix electroluminescent display devices | Physics | 403 | Expired |
| US6577302B2 | Display device having current-addressed pixels | Physics | 154 | Expired |
| US5959617A | Light pen input systems | Physics | 143 | Expired |
| US6359605B1 | Active matrix electroluminescent display devices | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US5349174A | Image sensor with transparent capacitive regions | Electricity | 107 | Expired |
| US5956163A | Image sensor | Physics | 104 | Expired |
| US5426605A | Semiconductor memory device | Electricity | 103 | Expired |
| US5483263A | Electro-optic device | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US5386543A | Matrix display device with light sensing function and time-shared amplifier | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US5721422A | Electronic devices having an array with shared column conductors | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6696701B2 | Electrostatic discharge protection for pixellated electronic device | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US6108438A | Fingerprint sensing devices and systems incorporating such | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US5973312A | Array of photosensitive pixels | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5412614A | Electronic matrix array devices and systems incorporating such devices | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5852425A | Active matrix display devices for digital video signals and method for driving such | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US7577444B2 | Method and apparatus for indicating the location of an object | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US4866368A | Circuit arrangement for storing sampled analogue electrical currents | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5410502A | Opto-electronic memory systems | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US5572015A | Charge storage device having shared conductors | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US5784476A | Audio signal reproduction apparatus | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US5900767A | Electronic devices comprising an array | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5426292A | Image sensor having a two dimensional array of imaging elements with opposite polarity leakage currents | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US4864217A | Method of and a circuit arrangement for processing sampled analogue electrical signals | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6646249B2 | Image sensor | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5608205A | Imaging device having reduced vertical crosstalk | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.