Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Thad Eugene Starner

103Patents
29h-index
90Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 1, 1994 → Feb 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5563988A Method and system for facilitating wireless, full-body, real-time user interaction with a digitally represented visual environment Electricity 567 Expired
US8228315B1 Methods and systems for a virtual input device Physics 433 Active
US8209183B1 Systems and methods for correction of text from different input types, sources, and contexts Physics 351 Active
US8878749B1 Systems and methods for position estimation Physics 294 Active
US8982471B1 HMD image source as dual-purpose projector/near-eye display Physics 229 Active
US9141194B1 Magnetometer-based gesture sensing with a wearable device Physics 216 Active
US6236768A Method and apparatus for automated, context-dependent retrieval of information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 198 Expired
US8955973B2 Method and system for input detection using structured light projection Physics 197 Active
US8430310B1 Wireless directional identification and verification using wearable electronic devices Physics 177 Active
US8963806B1 Device authentication Electricity 158 Active
US9354445B1 Information processing on a head-mountable device Physics 150 Active
US6711414B1 Wearable computing device capable of responding intelligently to surroundings Physics 138 Expired
US8184067B1 Nose bridge sensor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 132 Active
US8922481B1 Content annotation Electricity 122 Active
US8184983B1 Wireless directional identification and subsequent communication between wearable electronic devices Electricity 101 Active
US6757719B1 Method and system for data transmission between wearable devices or from wearable devices to portal Electricity 91 Expired
US9292082B1 Text-entry for a computing device Physics 63 Active
US8194036B1 Systems and methods for controlling a cursor on a display using a trackpad input device Physics 62 Active
US9069164B2 Methods and systems for a virtual input device Physics 57 Active
US9230501B1 Device control utilizing optical flow Physics 56 Active
US9213185B1 Display scaling based on movement of a head-mounted display Physics 43 Active
US8958599B1 Input method and system based on ambient glints Physics 43 Active
US9064436B1 Text input on touch sensitive interface Physics 42 Active
US8873147B1 Chord authentication via a multi-touch interface Physics 37 Active
US8203605B1 Point-of-view object selection Physics 35 Active

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