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WESTERMAN WAYNE CARL
US·42 granted patents·2 pending applications·2,360 citations·filing 2002–2012
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44 records- 0199US9041663B2Selective rejection of touch contacts in an edge region of a touch surfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted May 26, 2015·127 cites·22 claims
- 0299US8314775B2Multi-touch touch surfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 20, 2012·120 cites·19 claims
- 0399US8130203B2Multi-touch input discriminationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 6, 2012·148 cites·34 claims
- 0499US7030861B1System and method for packing multi-touch gestures onto a handWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 18, 2006·1k cites·14 claims
- 0598US8531425B2Multi-touch input discriminationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 10, 2013·20 cites·40 claims
- 0698US8243041B2Multi-touch input discriminationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 14, 2012·19 cites·24 claims
- 0797US8674943B2Multi-touch hand position offset computationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 18, 2014·42 cites·51 claims
- 0897US8542206B2Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboardsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 24, 2013·71 cites·16 claims
- 0997US8466880B2Multi-touch contact motion extractionWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 18, 2013·43 cites·63 claims
- 1097US8334846B2Multi-touch contact tracking using predicted pathsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 18, 2012·47 cites·23 claims
- 1197US8330727B2Generating control signals from multiple contactsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 11, 2012·48 cites·42 claims
- 1297US8059101B2Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboardsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 15, 2011·268 cites·22 claims
- 1396US8482533B2Contact tracking and identification module for touch sensingWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 9, 2013·28 cites·42 claims
- 1496US8466881B2Contact tracking and identification module for touch sensingWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 18, 2013·35 cites·66 claims
- 1596US8445793B2Selective input signal rejection and modificationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted May 21, 2013·28 cites·30 claims
- 1696US8441453B2Contact tracking and identification module for touch sensingWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted May 14, 2013·35 cites·43 claims
- 1796US8294047B2Selective input signal rejection and modificationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 23, 2012·43 cites·12 claims
- 1895US8514183B2Degree of freedom extraction from multiple contactsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 20, 2013·31 cites·30 claims
- 1995US8466883B2Identifying contacts on a touch surfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 18, 2013·25 cites·45 claims
- 2094US8902175B2Contact tracking and identification module for touch sensingWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 2, 2014·21 cites·75 claims
- 2194US8650507B2Selecting of text using gesturesWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 11, 2014·55 cites·28 claims
- 2291US9158454B2Detecting and interpreting real-world and security gestures on touch and hover sensitive devicesWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 13, 2015·10 cites·16 claims
- 2390US9372576B2Image jaggedness filter for determining whether to perform baseline calculationsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 21, 2016·22 cites·25 claims
- 2490US9367235B2Detecting and interpreting real-world and security gestures on touch and hover sensitive devicesWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 14, 2016·10 cites·26 claims
- 2590US8610671B2Insertion marker placement on touch sensitive displayWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 17, 2013·17 cites·21 claims
- 2689US9411468B2Irregular input identificationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 9, 2016·8 cites·37 claims
- 2774US8749512B2Negative pixel compensationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 10, 2014·5 cites·10 claims
- 2874US8446374B2Detecting a palm touch on a surfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted May 21, 2013·6 cites·20 claims
- 2971US9772667B2Integrated multi-touch surface having varying sensor granularityWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 26, 2017·3 cites·25 claims
- 3071US8681104B2Pinch-throw and translation gesturesWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 25, 2014·7 cites·56 claims
- 3170US9310995B2Touch input transitionsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 12, 2016·2 cites·30 claims
- 3270US8922499B2Touch input transitionsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 30, 2014·2 cites·12 claims
- 3368US10437459B2Multitouch data fusionWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 8, 2019·2 cites·51 claims
- 3468US9311528B2Gesture learningWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 12, 2016·3 cites·60 claims
- 3564US9720544B2Techniques for reducing jitter for tapsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 1, 2017·1 cites·25 claims
- 3663US10268320B2Method for disambiguating multiple touches on a projection-scan touch sensor panelWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 23, 2019·1 cites·25 claims
- 3763US9075483B2Negative pixel compensationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 7, 2015·2 cites·27 claims
- 3860US8502785B2Generating gestures tailored to a hand resting on a surfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 6, 2013·1 cites·30 claims
- 3955US9058066B2Suppressing errant motion using integrated mouse and touch informationWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 16, 2015·0 cites·32 claims
- 4055US2009174679A1Selective Rejection of Touch Contacts in an Edge Region of a Touch SurfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 4153US9740386B2Speed/positional mode translationsWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 22, 2017·0 cites·38 claims
- 4252US10175805B2Bottom-up watershed dataflow method and region-specific segmentation based on historic data to identify patches on a touch sensor panelWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 8, 2019·0 cites·13 claims
- 4351US9367167B2Bottom-up watershed dataflow method and region-specific segmentation based on historic data to identify patches on a touch sensor panelWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 14, 2016·0 cites·22 claims
- 4450US2011102333A1Detection of Gesture Orientation on Repositionable Touch SurfaceWESTERMAN WAYNE CARL·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
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