Inventor · Yokohama, JP

Tomio Echigo

18Patents
9h-index
16Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 24, 1994 → Dec 25, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7199798B1 Method and device for describing video contents Physics 93 Expired
US5771485A Apparatus and method for detecting a velocity of a moving object Physics 64 Expired
US5525882A Method and system for maneuvering a mobile robot Electricity 57 Expired
US5960119A Method of and system for encoding digital images Electricity 28 Expired
US5915046A System for and method of processing digital images Electricity 16 Expired
US6606412B1 Method for classifying an object in a moving picture Physics 16 Expired
US7072901B2 Index generation method, index generation apparatus, index addition system, and program and storage medium thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6833849B1 Video contents access method that uses trajectories of objects and apparatus therefor Physics 9 Expired
US7490342B2 Content provisioning system and method Electricity 9 Active
US7971217B2 Content digest system, video digest system, user terminal, video digest generation method, video digest reception method and program therefor Electricity 8 Active
US7251364B2 Image processing method, image processing system and storage medium therefor Physics 8 Expired
US7796781B2 Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images Physics 7 Active
US7231088B2 Method for team play analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US5748868A Two-dimensional management pattern, information display tag, and image processing method and device Physics 5 Expired
US7313278B2 Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images Physics 5 Expired
US7922652B2 Endoscope system Human Necessities 4 Active
US8005279B2 Capsule endoscope image display controller Electricity 4 Active
US7492944B2 Extraction and tracking of image regions arranged in time series Physics 2 Active

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