Thomas Malzbender
28Patents
16h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 24, 1987 → May 20, 2015
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6853398B2 | Method and system for real-time video communication within a virtual environment | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US7285047B2 | Method and system for real-time rendering within a gaming environment | Human Necessities | 121 | Expired |
| US7532230B2 | Method and system for communicating gaze in an immersive virtual environment | Physics | 72 | Active |
| US7057662B2 | Retractable camera apparatus | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US6741251B2 | Method and apparatus for varying focus in a scene | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US5557711A | Apparatus and method for volume rendering | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5414803A | Method utilizing frequency domain representations for generating two-dimensional views of three-dimensional objects | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6515674B1 | Apparatus for and of rendering 3d objects with parametric texture maps | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6888544B2 | Apparatus for and method of rendering 3D objects with parametric texture maps | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US8395656B1 | Methods and apparatus to direct attention in a video content display | Electricity | 21 | Active |
| US6654013B1 | Apparatus for and method of enhancing shape perception with parametric texture maps | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6166740A | Method and system for viewing three-dimensional data for a tracked structure | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5724435A | Digital filter and method of tracking a structure extending in three spatial dimensions | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6297834A | Direction-dependent texture maps in a graphics system | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US8553103B1 | Compensation of ambient illumination | Electricity | 16 | Active |
| US6278459A | Opacity-weighted color interpolation for volume sampling | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6373487B1 | Methods and apparatus for constructing a 3D model of a scene from calibrated images of the scene | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US8532736B1 | Apparatus and a method for quantifying properties of skin | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US6947666B2 | Support apparatus and method for use with a camera and strobe lights | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7480259B2 | System and method for establishing a parallel conversation thread during a remote collaboration | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US7106325B2 | System and method for rendering digital images having surface reflectance properties | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US4806918A | Graphics tablet using a permuted trace ordering scheme | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7924477B1 | Automated detection of creases and/or tears in scanned prints | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US10146318B2 | Techniques for using gesture recognition to effectuate character selection | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US6914600B2 | Volumetric warping for voxel coloring on an infinite domain | Physics | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.