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FOVEON INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    191
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    48,557
  • Filing trend
    ⇧ 25.0%
About

FOVEON INC has a total of 191 patent applications. It increased the IP activity by 25.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 1996. It filed its patents most often in United States, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets audio-visual technology, semiconductors and computer technology are DALSA CORP, DAI TIEJUN and SMARTSENS TECH US INC.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing FOVEON INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Merrill Richard B 101
#2 Lyon Richard F 67
#3 Mead Carver A 32
#4 Turner Richard M 30
#5 Lukac Rastislav 13
#6 Ramaswami Shrinath 13
#7 Martin Russel A 11
#8 Keller Glenn J 10
#9 Merrill Richard Billings 10
#10 Dong Milton B 10

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US10897592B1 Combined programmable gain amplifier and comparator for low power and low area readout in image sensor
US10666884B1 Method of classifying and correcting image sensor defects utilizing defective-pixel information from color channels
US10475840B1 Imaging array having improved surface-to-detector light transmission
US10608039B1 Imaging arrays having focal plane phase detecting pixel sensors
US2020106995A1 Sub-sampled color channel readout wiring for vertical detector pixel sensors
US2018374240A1 Method for recovering highlights and saturated regions and extending dynamic range in a digital image
US2018176497A1 Column line clamp circuit for imaging array
US2017374302A1 Electronically controlled graduated density filters in stacked image sensors
US2014320496A1 Methods for reducing row and column patterns in a digital image
DE102011113546A1 Method for replacing defective pixels in digital color image, involves dividing sum of differences between non-defective data in selected and reference channels by preset value and adding to non-defective data of reference channel
DE102011102554A1 Ramp or sawtooth generator with unit elements for an analog / digital converter
US2012070081A1 Correcting defective pixels in digital color images
US7907079B1 Delta sigma modulator for analog-to-digital converter
WO2010024799A1 Cmos pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted common node
US7745773B1 Multi-color CMOS pixel sensor with shared row wiring and dual output lines
US7910394B1 Photodiode with improved charge capacity
WO2008097916A1 Pinned photodiode cmos pixel sensor
US2008283880A1 CMOS pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted common node
US7602430B1 High-gain multicolor pixel sensor with reset noise cancellation
CN101151735A Vertical color filter sensor group array with full-resolution top layer and lower-resolution lower layer