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Alvy Ray Smith
Also filed as: SMITH ALVY R · SMITH ALVY RAY
4 granted patents·232 citations·filing 1976–2004
82Inventor score
Technology areasG06T
Top patents by PatentIndex Score
4 records- 0192US4189743AApparatus and method for automatic coloration and/or shading of imagesNEW YORK INST TECHN·Filed 1976·Granted Feb 19, 1980·109 cites·12 claims
- 0279US6301382B1Extracting a matte of a foreground object from multiple backgrounds by triangulationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 9, 2001·76 cites·53 claims
- 0377US7148907B2Mixed but indistinguishable raster and vector image data typesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 12, 2006·24 cites·10 claims
- 0454US6870545B1Mixed but indistinguishable raster and vector image data typesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 22, 2005·23 cites·3 claims
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