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Gregory Hitchcock
Also filed as: HITCHCOCK GREGORY · HITCHCOCK GREGORY C · HITCHCOCK GREGORY CARL
63 granted patents·7 pending applications·3,484 citations·filing 1997–2018
99Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP56MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC6MATSKEWICH TANYA3LINNERUD PAUL2STAMM BEAT2
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70 records- 0199US6243070B1Method and apparatus for detecting and reducing color artifacts in imagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 5, 2001·269 cites·36 claims
- 0298US6239783B1Weighted mapping of image data samples to pixel sub-components on a display deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 29, 2001·296 cites·40 claims
- 0398US6188385B1Method and apparatus for displaying images such as textMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 13, 2001·266 cites·26 claims
- 0497US6750875B1Compression of image data associated with two-dimensional arrays of pixel sub-componentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 15, 2004·176 cites·17 claims
- 0597US6624828B1Method and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of user reference informationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 23, 2003·187 cites·18 claims
- 0697US6377262B1Rendering sub-pixel precision characters having widths compatible with pixel precision charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 23, 2002·174 cites·34 claims
- 0797US6278434B1Non-square scaling of image data to be mapped to pixel sub-componentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 21, 2001·176 cites·27 claims
- 0897US6236390B1Methods and apparatus for positioning displayed charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 22, 2001·210 cites·34 claims
- 0997US6219025B1Mapping image data samples to pixel sub-components on a striped display deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 17, 2001·183 cites·38 claims
- 1096US6396505B1Methods and apparatus for detecting and reducing color errors in imagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 28, 2002·214 cites·44 claims
- 1195US6674436B1Methods and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of display device and display condition informationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 6, 2004·147 cites·52 claims
- 1295US6356278B1Methods and systems for asymmeteric supersampling rasterization of image dataMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 12, 2002·85 cites·33 claims
- 1394US6225973B1Mapping samples of foreground/background color image data to pixel sub-componentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 1, 2001·154 cites·40 claims
- 1493US6253374B1Method for validating a signed program prior to execution time or an unsigned program at execution timeMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 26, 2001·247 cites·15 claims
- 1589US6693615B2High resolution display of image data using pixel sub-componentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 17, 2004·28 cites·24 claims
- 1688US7505040B2Composite characters font hintingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 17, 2009·19 cites·20 claims
- 1788US6577291B2Gray scale and color display methods and apparatusMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 10, 2003·66 cites·17 claims
- 1886US6597360B1Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 22, 2003·34 cites·46 claims
- 1986US6339426B1Methods, apparatus and data structures for overscaling or oversampling character feature information in a system for rendering text on horizontally striped displaysMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 15, 2002·95 cites·61 claims
- 2085US6065008ASystem and method for secure font subset distributionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted May 16, 2000·124 cites·27 claims
- 2184US7583267B2Stroke contrast in font hintingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 1, 2009·14 cites·13 claims
- 2282US10043075B2Eye feature identificationMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 7, 2018·5 cites·20 claims
- 2381US8471856B2Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objectsSTAMM BEAT·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 25, 2013·6 cites·14 claims
- 2479US7176941B2Dropout control in subpixel renderingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 13, 2007·7 cites·15 claims
- 2579US7136067B2Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variantsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 14, 2006·19 cites·24 claims
- 2679US7134091B2Quality of displayed images with user preference informationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 7, 2006·19 cites·21 claims
- 2776US7548239B2Matching digital information flow to a human perception systemMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 16, 2009·7 cites·18 claims
- 2873US6894702B2Dropout control in subpixel renderingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted May 17, 2005·14 cites·62 claims
- 2972US9520101B2Image rendering filter creationMATSKEWICH TANYA·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 13, 2016·2 cites·20 claims
- 3072US8947438B2Reducing font instructionsLINNERUD PAUL·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 3, 2015·4 cites·20 claims
- 3172US6342896B1Methods and apparatus for efficiently implementing and modifying foreground and background color selectionsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 29, 2002·52 cites·25 claims
- 3271US9311896B2Glyph renderingMATSKEWICH TANYA·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 12, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 3370US7289123B2Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 30, 2007·13 cites·40 claims
- 3470US7148893B2Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 12, 2006·4 cites·20 claims
- 3569US7173619B2Matching digital information flow to a human perception systemMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 6, 2007·13 cites·31 claims
- 3669US7145572B2Methods and apparatus for improving the quality of displayed images through the use of display device and display condition informationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 5, 2006·10 cites·20 claims
- 3767US7505041B2Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting languageMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 17, 2009·3 cites·18 claims
- 3867US7292249B2Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control pointsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 6, 2007·13 cites·19 claims
- 3966US6894701B2Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systemsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted May 17, 2005·9 cites·11 claims
- 4064US7187382B2Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting languageMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 6, 2007·8 cites·18 claims
- 4164US6421054B1Methods and apparatus for performing grid fitting and hinting operationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 16, 2002·37 cites·43 claims
- 4262US6985160B2Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systemsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 10, 2006·2 cites·8 claims
- 4362US6982725B2Dropout control in subpixel renderingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 3, 2006·2 cites·18 claims
- 4461US7872651B2Error metrics for charactersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 18, 2011·2 cites·24 claims
- 4561US6307566B1Methods and apparatus for performing image rendering and rasterization operationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 23, 2001·32 cites·21 claims
- 4659US8253742B2Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objectsSTAMM BEAT·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 28, 2012·2 cites·19 claims
- 4758US7265757B2Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline lacks control pointsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 4, 2007·7 cites·21 claims
- 4858US7236174B2Adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simplify representative control dataMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 26, 2007·12 cites·22 claims
- 4958US7057626B2Dropout control in subpixel renderingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 6, 2006·1 cites·9 claims
- 5056US9245361B2Consolidating glyphs of a fontLINNERUD PAUL·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 26, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
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