Noboru Murayama
49Patents
19h-index
36Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 3, 1975 → Nov 21, 2003
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4953196A | Image transmission system | Electricity | 81 | Expired |
| US6282458A | Methods and systems for controlling olfactory stimuli | Human Necessities | 61 | Expired |
| US5065246A | Focusing system and image input apparatus having automatic focusing system which uses digital processing | Electricity | 59 | Expired |
| US5115479A | Image data processing method for compressing an image by approximating curves using a polynomial | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US4750209A | System for processing an image having both letter and photographic information | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US4562486A | Conversion of multilevel digital data to binary data | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US4698691A | Halftone image processing method | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US4698778A | Method of processing gradation information with variable magnification | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US6101284A | Methods and systems for optimizing image data compression involving wavelet transform | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US4974067A | Multi-step-digital color image reproducing method and apparatus | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US4991009A | Dynamic image transmission system | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| USD306589S | Tape recorder | General | 32 | Expired |
| US4996594A | Dynamic image transmission system | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5091976A | Image coding method for extracting, segmenting, and coding image contours | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US5233671A | Image coding method for coding characters using a modified Bezier curve | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4797943A | Gradation data processing apparatus | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4797809A | Direct memory access device for multidimensional data transfers | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US5099231A | Image output system for outputting multi-level information stored as transition points | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US4207599A | Run length encoding and decoding process and apparatus | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US5642439A | Digital image processing method suitable for halftone representation based on dither process | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4485408A | Halftone processing method for digital facsmile apparatus | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4449151A | Solid-state scanning apparatus | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5007011A | Data storage device including data address predicting function | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5416603A | Image segmentation using discrete cosine transfer data, and image data transmission apparatus and method using this image segmentation | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US4675831A | Method of processing gradation information | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.