Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Patrick Chiu

91Patents
31h-index
96Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 30, 1993 → Jun 16, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7203380B2 Video production and compaction with collage picture frame user interface Electricity 545 Expired
US6332147A Computer controlled display system using a graphical replay device to control playback of temporal data representing collaborative activities Physics 503 Expired
US7546554B2 Systems and methods for browsing multimedia content on small mobile devices Physics 475 Expired
US6525749B1 Apparatus and method for supporting the implicit structure of freeform lists, outlines, text, tables and diagrams in a gesture-based input system and editing system Physics 402 Expired
US5809267A Apparatus and method for executing multiple-concatenated command gestures in a gesture based input system Physics 391 Expired
US5880743A Apparatus and method for implementing visual animation illustrating results of interactive editing operations Physics 237 Expired
US5986655A Method and system for indexing and controlling the playback of multimedia documents Physics 223 Expired
US5798769A Method and apparatus for maintaining links between graphic objects in a free-form graphics display system Physics 187 Expired
US9501398B2 Persistent storage device with NVRAM for staging writes Physics 170 Active
US6509912B1 Domain objects for use in a freeform graphics system Physics 159 Expired
US5471578A Apparatus and method for altering enclosure selections in a gesture based input system Physics 145 Expired
US5861886A Method and apparatus for grouping graphic objects on a computer based system having a graphical user interface Physics 144 Expired
US5889523A Method and apparatus for dynamically grouping a plurality of graphic objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 142 Expired
US6452615B1 System and apparatus for notetaking with digital video and ink Electricity 140 Expired
US5784061A Method and apparatus for collapsing and expanding selected regions on a work space of a computer controlled display system Physics 124 Expired
US6807361B1 Interactive custom video creation system Physics 117 Expired
US6018346A Freeform graphics system having meeting objects for supporting meeting objectives Physics 117 Expired
US7830417B2 System and method for interacting with objects via a camera enhanced mobile device Electricity 96 Active
US7003737B2 Method for interactive browsing and visualization of documents in real space and time Physics 85 Expired
US7257774B2 Systems and methods for filtering and/or viewing collaborative indexes of recorded media Physics 80 Expired
US7149974B2 Reduced representations of video sequences Physics 77 Expired
US6565611B1 Automatic index creation for handwritten digital ink notes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US7647555B1 System and method for video access from notes or summaries Electricity 60 Expired
US6239801A Method and system for indexing and controlling the playback of multimedia documents Physics 52 Expired
US7340678B2 Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3D visualization of indexed media Physics 47 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.