Inventor · Cambridge, GB

Stephen E. Hodges

139Patents
24h-index
129Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 19, 2002 → Jun 29, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7983933B2 Patient monitoring via image capture Physics 143 Active
US8432372B2 User input using proximity sensing Physics 128 Active
US7924272B2 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Physics 108 Active
US8400410B2 Ferromagnetic user interfaces Physics 74 Active
US8587583B2 Three-dimensional environment reconstruction Physics 73 Active
US8199117B2 Archive for physical and digital objects Physics 67 Active
US8711206B2 Mobile camera localization using depth maps Physics 60 Active
US8401225B2 Moving object segmentation using depth images Physics 58 Active
US8068121B2 Manipulation of graphical objects on a display or a proxy device Physics 57 Active
US9240111B2 Inferring building metadata from distributed sensors Physics 54 Active
US8466902B2 Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel Physics 51 Active
US7295101B2 User interface systems Physics 45 Expired
US8570320B2 Using a three-dimensional environment model in gameplay Physics 45 Active
US8401242B2 Real-time camera tracking using depth maps Physics 41 Active
US8803797B2 Input through sensing of user-applied forces Physics 39 Active
US9070229B2 Manipulation of graphical objects Physics 37 Active
US8587670B2 Automatic capture modes Electricity 35 Active
US8760395B2 Gesture recognition techniques Physics 33 Active
US9383973B2 Code suggestions Physics 33 Active
US9696427B2 Wide angle depth detection Electricity 32 Active
US8269746B2 Communication with a touch screen Physics 28 Active
US8249397B2 Playback of digital images Electricity 25 Active
US8094129B2 Touch sensing using shadow and reflective modes Physics 24 Active
US9134798B2 Gestures, interactions, and common ground in a surface computing environment Physics 24 Active
US7860516B2 Automatic localization of devices Electricity 23 Active

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