Yongmin Kim
110Patents
23h-index
163Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 12, 1992 → Feb 22, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6731799B1 | Object segmentation with background extraction and moving boundary techniques | Physics | 427 | Expired |
| US6775404B1 | Apparatus and method for interactive 3D registration of ultrasound and magnetic resonance images based on a magnetic position sensor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 268 | Expired |
| US5467459A | Imaging and graphics processing system | Physics | 153 | Expired |
| US5492125A | Ultrasound signal processing apparatus | Physics | 124 | Expired |
| US6480615B1 | Motion estimation within a sequence of data frames using optical flow with adaptive gradients | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US5787889A | Ultrasound imaging with real time 3D image reconstruction and visualization | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 91 | Expired |
| US6574353B1 | Video object tracking using a hierarchy of deformable templates | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US6546117B1 | Video object segmentation using active contour modelling with global relaxation | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US6535632B1 | Image processing in HSI color space using adaptive noise filtering | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US5561761A | Central processing unit data entering and interrogating device and method therefor | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US5605155A | Ultrasound system for automatically measuring fetal head size | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US6912310B1 | Video object segmentation using active contour model with directional information | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US6870945B2 | Video object tracking by estimating and subtracting background | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US6732247B2 | Multi-ported memory having pipelined data banks | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US6525746B1 | Interactive video object processing environment having zoom window | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US5795296A | Pipeline process for automatically measuring object boundary from ultrasound image samples | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6633309B2 | Interactive video object processing environment having concurrently active subordinate windows | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US6631206B1 | Image filtering in HSI color space | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US7409530B2 | Method and apparatus for compressing VLIW instruction and sharing subinstructions | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6859870B1 | Method and apparatus for compressing VLIW instruction and sharing subinstructions | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US7158141B2 | Programmable 3D graphics pipeline for multimedia applications | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5528302A | Real-time ultrasound scan conversion | Human Necessities | 26 | Expired |
| US6779101B1 | Method and apparatus for processing compressed VLIW subinstruction opcodes | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5355443A | Image computing system | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6272250A | Color clustering for scene change detection and object tracking in video sequences | Physics | 20 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.