Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

William Thomas Blank

42Patents
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42Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 24, 1989 → Oct 20, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7295548B2 Method and system for disaggregating audio/visual components Electricity 1,451 Expired
US5243699A Input/output system for parallel processing arrays Physics 102 Expired
US7627808B2 Computer media synchronization player Physics 41 Expired
US5488694A Broadcasting headers to configure physical devices interfacing a data bus with a logical assignment and to effect block data transfers between the configured logical devices Physics 30 Expired
US4939642A Virtual bit map processor Physics 27 Expired
US7822835B2 Logically centralized physically distributed IP network-connected devices configuration Electricity 21 Active
US11176901B1 Pan-warping and modifying sub-frames with an up-sampled frame rate Physics 16 Active
US7956870B2 Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling Physics 14 Active
US6943805B2 Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling Physics 11 Expired
US7768524B2 Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling Physics 9 Active
US8928735B2 Combined lighting, projection, and image capture without video feedback Electricity 5 Active
US10951867B2 Light emitter architecture for scanning display device Physics 5 Active
US10930188B2 Feedback circuit for calibrating a current mode display Physics 4 Active
US10861380B2 Display systems with hybrid emitter circuits Physics 4 Active
US10690923B1 Scanning system for a tiling display Electricity 3 Active
US11011123B1 Pan-warping and modifying sub-frames with an up-sampled frame rate Physics 3 Active
US10971061B2 Control scheme for a scanning display Physics 3 Active
US11056037B1 Hybrid pulse width modulation for display device Physics 3 Active
US10937348B2 Analog data shifter for a current mode display Physics 3 Active
US8787832B2 Dynamic range wireless communications access point Electricity 2 Active
US9961315B2 Intra-frame control of projector on-off states Electricity 2 Active
US11070778B2 Multi-projector display architecture Physics 2 Active
US9560314B2 Interactive and shared surfaces Physics 2 Active
US11257407B2 Display diagnostic system Physics 2 Active
US8971810B2 Dynamic range wireless communications access point Electricity 1 Active

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