Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Yi-Ren Ng

50Patents
26h-index
33Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 31, 2004 → Feb 22, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7723662B2 Microscopy arrangements and approaches Physics 296 Active
US8279325B2 System and method for acquiring, editing, generating and outputting video data Electricity 242 Active
US8289440B2 Light field data acquisition devices, and methods of using and manufacturing same Physics 225 Active
US9001226B1 Capturing and relighting images using multiple devices Electricity 218 Active
US7936392B2 Imaging arrangements and methods therefor Electricity 136 Active
US8749620B1 3D light field cameras, images and files, and methods of using, operating, processing and viewing same Electricity 99 Active
US8559705B2 Interactive refocusing of electronic images Electricity 99 Active
US8831377B2 Compensating for variation in microlens position during light-field image processing Electricity 93 Active
US8811769B1 Extended depth of field and variable center of perspective in light-field processing Physics 56 Active
US8768102B1 Downsampling light field images Physics 50 Active
US8724014B2 Light field data acquisition Physics 44 Active
US8248515B2 Variable imaging arrangements and methods therefor Physics 43 Active
US8760566B2 Video refocusing Electricity 38 Active
US8570426B2 System of and method for video refocusing Electricity 37 Active
US8908058B2 Storage and transmission of pictures including multiple frames Electricity 37 Active
US8446516B2 Generating and outputting video data from refocusable light field video data Electricity 37 Active
US8995785B2 Light-field processing and analysis, camera control, and user interfaces and interaction on light-field capture devices Electricity 36 Active
US9392153B2 Plenoptic camera resolution Electricity 35 Active
US8948545B2 Compensating for sensor saturation and microlens modulation during light-field image processing Electricity 33 Active
US9467607B2 Light field data acquisition Physics 32 Active
US8971625B2 Generating dolly zoom effect using light field image data Physics 32 Active
US8614764B2 Acquiring, editing, generating and outputting video data Electricity 30 Active
US9607424B2 Depth-assigned content for depth-enhanced pictures Physics 29 Active
US9184199B2 Optical assembly including plenoptic microlens array Electricity 27 Active
US8976288B2 Light field data acquisition Physics 27 Active

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