Inventor · Seattle, WA, US

Paul Viola

60Patents
23h-index
69Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 7, 2000 → Feb 1, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6985694B1 Method and system for providing an audio element cache in a customized personal radio broadcast Electricity 700 Expired
US7099510B2 Method and system for object detection in digital images Physics 266 Expired
US7672940B2 Processing an electronic document for information extraction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 160 Active
US7020337B2 System and method for detecting objects in images Physics 137 Expired
US6600898B1 Method and apparatus for generating a number audio element in an audio system Electricity 109 Expired
US6609096B1 System and method for overlapping audio elements in a customized personal radio broadcast Electricity 106 Expired
US7729538B2 Spatial recognition and grouping of text and graphics Physics 71 Active
US7305129B2 Methods and apparatus for populating electronic forms from scanned documents Physics 70 Expired
US7840691B1 Personal broadcast server system for providing a customized broadcast Electricity 69 Active
US7499588B2 Low resolution OCR for camera acquired documents Physics 65 Active
US7058694B1 Method for comparing two trinary logic representations in the process of customizing radio broadcasting Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Expired
US7212651B2 Detecting pedestrians using patterns of motion and appearance in videos Physics 59 Expired
US6703936B2 System and method for tracking movement of individuals Physics 46 Expired
US7570816B2 Systems and methods for detecting text Physics 46 Active
US6992582B2 System and method for tracking movement of individuals Physics 44 Expired
US7031499B2 Object recognition system Physics 42 Expired
US7197186B2 Detecting arbitrarily oriented objects in images Physics 34 Expired
US8249344B2 Grammatical parsing of document visual structures Physics 32 Active
US10395544B1 Electronic landing marker Physics 31 Active
US8762360B2 Integrating applications within search results Physics 30 Active
US7890443B2 Learning classifiers using combined boosting and weight trimming Physics 27 Active
US9163952B2 Suggestive mapping Physics 24 Active
US8027541B2 Image organization based on image content Physics 23 Active
US7698340B2 Parsing hierarchical lists and outlines Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US7707248B2 Credit-based peer-to-peer storage Electricity 16 Active

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