Inventor · Cupertino, CA, US

Steven E. Saunders

50Patents
17h-index
39Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 22, 1991 → Oct 1, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7155735B1 System and method for the broadcast dissemination of time-ordered data Electricity 127 Expired
US5816823A Input device and method for interacting with motion pictures incorporating content-based haptic feedback Electricity 87 Expired
US7565681B2 System and method for the broadcast dissemination of time-ordered data Electricity 86 Active
US5252950A Display with rangefinder Electricity 69 Expired
US6996244B1 Estimation of head-related transfer functions for spatial sound representative Electricity 64 Expired
US6650338B1 Haptic interaction with video and image data Physics 58 Expired
US8185923B2 System and method for selecting advertisements Electricity 48 Active
US7266771B1 Video stream representation and navigation using inherent data Electricity 42 Expired
US6968565B1 Detection of content display observers with prevention of unauthorized access to identification signal Electricity 37 Expired
US6108612A Coded objects and methods for detecting such coded objects Physics 35 Expired
US7840019B2 Estimation of head-related transfer functions for spatial sound representation Electricity 34 Active
US5262778A Three-dimensional data acquisition on a two-dimensional input device Physics 32 Expired
US5724313A Personal object detector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US6825780B2 Multiple codec-imager system and method Physics 21 Expired
US6011754A Personal object detector with enhanced stereo imaging capability Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US9225760B2 System, method and apparatus of video processing and applications Physics 17 Active
US7679649B2 Methods for deploying video monitoring applications and services across heterogenous networks Electricity 17 Active
US5574467A Doppler positioning using non-planar movement of transmitting source and receiving source Physics 16 Expired
US6075967A Input device for controlling a video display, incorporating content-based haptic feedback Electricity 16 Expired
US5261115A Multi-board system with shift board selection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US8849964B2 Mobile imaging application, device architecture, service platform architecture and services Electricity 9 Active
US10186297B2 Reference and non-reference video quality evaluation Physics 6 Active
US8341688B2 System and method for the broadcast dissemination of time-ordered data Electricity 6 Active
US9325985B2 Reference and non-reference video quality evaluation Physics 6 Active
US7525463B2 Compression rate control system and method with variable subband processing Electricity 6 Expired

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