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William T. Freeman
Also filed as: FREEMAN WILLIAM · FREEMAN WILLIAM T · FREEMAN WILLIAM TAFEL
70 granted patents·6 pending applications·5,869 citations·filing 1980–2025
99Inventor score
Files withGOOGLE LLC21MASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY21MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB8POLAROID CORP8MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH6
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76 records- 0199US6002808AHand gesture control systemMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 14, 1999·779 cites·32 claims
- 0299US5594469AHand gesture machine control systemMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1995·Granted Jan 14, 1997·1.7k cites·16 claims
- 0399US5454043ADynamic and static hand gesture recognition through low-level image analysisMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH L·Filed 1993·Granted Sep 26, 1995·1.2k cites·7 claims
- 0496US7012632B2Data storage with overwriteMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 14, 2006·124 cites·3 claims
- 0596US6115052ASystem for reconstructing the 3-dimensional motions of a human figure from a monocularly-viewed image sequenceMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 5, 2000·281 cites·10 claims
- 0696US4724395AMedian filter for reconstructing missing color samplesPOLAROID CORP·Filed 1986·Granted Feb 9, 1988·129 cites·2 claims
- 0794US9811901B2Linear-based Eulerian motion modulationMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 7, 2017·21 cites·13 claims
- 0894US6910000B1Generalized belief propagation for probabilistic systemsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 21, 2005·120 cites·14 claims
- 0994US5526446ANoise reduction systemMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 1991·Granted Jun 11, 1996·271 cites·4 claims
- 1093US9338331B2Riesz pyramids for fast phase-based video magnificationMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2015·Granted May 10, 2016·9 cites·23 claims
- 1193US9324005B2Complex-valued phase-based eulerian motion modulationMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 26, 2016·24 cites·18 claims
- 1293US8447769B1System and method for real-time image collection and sharingPARIS SYLVAIN·Filed 2010·Granted May 21, 2013·26 cites·20 claims
- 1392US9842404B2Methods and apparatus for refractive flow measurement with three dimensions and uncertaintyMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 12, 2017·14 cites·24 claims
- 1492US9805475B2Eulerian motion modulationRUBINSTEIN MICHAEL·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 31, 2017·37 cites·10 claims
- 1592US7088387B1Video recording device responsive to triggering eventMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 8, 2006·172 cites·24 claims
- 1692US4774565AMethod and apparatus for reconstructing missing color samplesPOLAROID CORP·Filed 1987·Granted Sep 27, 1988·87 cites·21 claims
- 1791US6766067B2One-pass super-resolution imagesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 20, 2004·73 cites·14 claims
- 1890US9710917B2Methods and apparatus for refractive flow measurementMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 18, 2017·11 cites·35 claims
- 1990US8340463B1Candidate pruning for patch transformsCHO TAEG SANG·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 25, 2012·33 cites·33 claims
- 2089US7616826B2Removing camera shake from a single photograph using statistics of a natural imageMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 10, 2009·29 cites·21 claims
- 2188US8233739B1Patch jittering for visual artifact correctionCHO TAEG SANG·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 31, 2012·26 cites·38 claims
- 2288US5894309ASystem for modifying lighting in photographsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 13, 1999·113 cites·13 claims
- 2386US11335120B2Face reconstruction from a learned embeddingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2020·Granted May 17, 2022·2 cites·10 claims
- 2486US10217218B2Linear-based Eulerian motion modulationMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 26, 2019·4 cites·19 claims
- 2586US10037609B2Video-based identification of operational mode shapesMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 31, 2018·7 cites·32 claims
- 2684US6919903B2Texture synthesis and transfer for pixel imagesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 19, 2005·54 cites·13 claims
- 2784US6496184B1Method for inferring scenes from test images and training data using probability propagation in a markov networkFiled 1999·Granted Dec 17, 2002·90 cites·25 claims
- 2883US11315274B2Depth determination for images captured with a moving camera and representing moving featuresGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 26, 2022·3 cites·20 claims
- 2983US10007986B2Linear-based eulerian motion modulationMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 26, 2018·3 cites·19 claims
- 3083US6745157B1Super-node normalized belief propagation for probabilistic systemsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 1, 2004·49 cites·12 claims
- 3183US4541704APhotographic camera with electronic image enhancementPOLAROID CORP·Filed 1984·Granted Sep 17, 1985·16 cites·10 claims
- 3282US11836221B2Systems and methods for refined object estimation from image dataGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 5, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 3382US10129658B2Method and apparatus for recovering audio signals from imagesMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 13, 2018·5 cites·39 claims
- 3482US7715589B2Occluding contour detection and storage for digital photographyMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2005·Granted May 11, 2010·12 cites·29 claims
- 3581US12260572B2Single image 3D photography with soft-layering and depth-aware inpaintingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Mar 25, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
- 3681US10650227B2Face reconstruction from a learned embeddingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2017·Granted May 12, 2020·3 cites·15 claims
- 3780US4339900ASky-light structure having a flexible-tube shaftFREEMAN WILLIAM T·Filed 1980·Granted Jul 20, 1982·50 cites·10 claims
- 3879US4663655AMethod and apparatus for reconstructing missing color samplesPOLAROID CORP·Filed 1985·Granted May 5, 1987·36 cites·14 claims
- 3978US10380745B2Methods and devices for measuring object motion using camera imagesMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 13, 2019·3 cites·44 claims
- 4077US12387353B2Model for determining consistent depth of moving objects in videoGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 12, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
- 4177US11978225B2Depth determination for images captured with a moving camera and representing moving featuresGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2023·Granted May 7, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4276US11456005B2Audio-visual speech separationGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 27, 2022·2 cites·21 claims
- 4375US12243145B2Re-timing objects in video via layered neural renderingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 4, 2025·1 cites·22 claims
- 4475US9131118B2Laser speckle photography for surface tampering detectionMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 8, 2015·3 cites·20 claims
- 4571US12249178B2Face reconstruction from a learned embeddingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 11, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4671US11663733B2Depth determination for images captured with a moving camera and representing moving featuresGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2022·Granted May 30, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 4771US10834372B23DTV at home: Eulerian-Lagrangian stereo-to-multi-view conversionMASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 10, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 4871US8451338B2Method and apparatus for motion invariant imagingLEVIN ANAT·Filed 2008·Granted May 28, 2013·5 cites·20 claims
- 4970US6144755AMethod and apparatus for determining posesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 7, 2000·75 cites·17 claims
- 5069US4536848AMethod and apparatus for colored computer graphic photographyPOLAROID CORP·Filed 1984·Granted Aug 20, 1985·35 cites·13 claims
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