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Frederic Cao — 17 Patents

Apple: 13 patents #2,537 of 18,612Top 15%
DLDxo Labs: 3 patents #5 of 30Top 20%
COCognitech: 1 patents #8 of 13Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #3,861 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Frederic Cao has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in May 2025. Frederic Cao ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Frederic Cao in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12314553 User interface camera effects Johnnie B. Manzari, Marek BAREZA, Jeffrey A. Brasket, Alan C. Dye, Elliott B. Harris +9 more 2025-05-27
12132996 Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters Bosheng Zhang, Angelo M. Alaimo, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Paul M. Hubel, Bryan Dang 2024-10-29 $278,906,000
11935285 Real-time synthetic out of focus highlight rendering Philip Lee 2024-03-19 $131,219,000
11620738 Hue preservation post processing with early exit for highlight recovery Touraj Tajbakhsh, Chihsin Wu 2023-04-04 $376,665,000
11204692 User interface camera effects Behkish J. Manzari, Marek A. Bereza, Jeffrey A. Brasket, Alan C. Dye, Elliott B. Harris +9 more 2021-12-21 $426,305,000
11100620 Hue preservation post processing for highlight recovery Touraj Tajbakhsh, Chihsin Wu 2021-08-24 $193,607,000
10897558 Shallow depth of field (SDOF) rendering Wei-Yang Sun, Philip Lee, Gregory Guyomarc'h 2021-01-19 $530,753,000
10855964 Hue map generation for highlight recovery Touraj Tajbakhsh, Muge Wang 2020-12-01 $185,955,000
10762692 Techniques for providing virtual lighting adjustments utilizing regression analysis and functional lightmaps Yury Degtyarev, Garrett M. Johnson 2020-09-01 $178,515,000
10740959 Techniques for providing virtual light adjustments to image data Garrett M. Johnson, Chong Chen 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10528243 User interface camera effects Behkish J. Manzari, Marek A. Bereza, Jeffrey A. Brasket, Alan C. Dye, Elliott B. Harris +9 more 2020-01-07 $175,804,000
10467803 Techniques for providing virtual lighting adjustments utilizing regression analysis and functional lightmaps Yury Degtyarev, Garrett M. Johnson 2019-11-05 $118,994,000
10070109 Highlight recovery in images Suk Hwan Lim, Touraj Tajbakhsh 2018-09-04 $96,510,000
9407827 Method and system for capturing sequences of images with compensation for variations in magnification Frederic Guichard 2016-08-02
8736683 Method for estimating a defect in an image-capturing system, and associated systems Frederic Guichard, Ayham Nseir 2014-05-27
8559744 Method for processing a digital object and related system Frederic Guichard, Noura Azzabou, Jean-Michel Morel, Antoni Buades, Bartomeu Coll 2013-10-15
8014588 System and method for three-dimensional estimation based on image data Leonid I. Rudin, Jean-Michel Morel, Pascal Monasse 2011-09-06