Inventor · Brighton, NY, US

William K. Hickok

13Patents
5h-index
9Co-inventors
55Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 25, 1976 → Dec 18, 1990

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4723181A Tape memory with integral disk index on reel Physics 57 Expired
US5172224A Printer calibration method using electronically-decoupled color and tone scale adjustments Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US4055849A Magnetic head positioning and playback apparatus utilizing a split head for self-tracking and selective reproduction Physics 19 Expired
US4691245A Method and apparatus for combining two color video signals Electricity 13 Expired
US4750054A Noise-impervious video timing recovery and automatic skew compensation Electricity 5 Expired
US4928196A Magnetic recording device using circumferentially offset heads with double sided media Physics 5 Expired
US4003077A Method and apparatus for cancelling chrominance artifacts Electricity 5 Expired
US4785359A Dual purpose memory for time division multiplexing and time base error correction Electricity 4 Expired
US4931883A Zero guard-band skip-field video cassette recorder Electricity 3 Expired
US4264163A Exposure control apparatus with compensation for film reciprocity failure Physics 3 Expired
US4752830A Time division multiplex video recorder with enhanced vertical chrominance sampling rate Electricity 2 Expired
US4051515A Color video signal recording and reproducing apparatus providing preferential dropout compensation and time base error correction Electricity 2 Expired
US4763202A Time division multiplex video recorder with high resolution Electricity 0 Expired

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