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Kok Chen — 38 Patents

Apple: 37 patents #805 of 18,612Top 5%
Palo Alto, CA: #545 of 9,675 inventorsTop 6%
California: #12,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Kok Chen has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2013. Kok Chen ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Kok Chen in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8587603 Method and apparatus for improved color correction Gabriel Marcu, Steve Swen 2013-11-19 $96,980,000
8452090 Bayer reconstruction of images using a GPU Ralph Brunner, Mark Zimmer 2013-05-28 $91,700,000
7969478 Method and apparatus for color correction of color devices for various operating conditions Gabriel Marcu, Wei Chen, John Z. Zhong 2011-06-28 $127,709,000
7688328 Luminance point correction without luminance degradation Gabriel Marcu 2010-03-30 $91,112,000
7574041 Conversion of output device color values to minimize image quality artifacts Kevin W. Andresen 2009-08-11 $150,586,000
7460129 Manipulating text and graphic appearance Mark Zimmer 2008-12-02 $129,435,000
7460277 System and method for halftoning using a time-variable halftone pattern Gabriel Marcu 2008-12-02 $129,435,000
7456843 Method and apparatus for improved color correction Gabriel Marcu 2008-11-25 $77,836,000
7397964 Gaussian blur approximation suitable for GPU Ralph Brunner, John Harper 2008-07-08 $467,155,000
7274817 Conversion of output device color values to minimize image quality artifacts Kevin W. Andresen 2007-09-25 $336,537,000
7227551 Manipulating text and graphic appearance Mark Zimmer 2007-06-05 $852,004,000
7187474 System and method for halftoning using a time-variable halftone pattern Gabriel Marcu 2007-03-06 $304,408,000
7084881 Method and apparatus for improved color correction Gabriel Marcu, Steve Swen 2006-08-01 $181,574,000
6972772 White point correction without luminance degradation Gabriel Marcu 2005-12-06 $136,146,000
6954193 Method and apparatus for correcting pixel level intensity variation Jose Andrade, Peter Graffagnino, Gabriel Marcu 2005-10-11 $108,649,000
6844881 Method and apparatus for improved color correction Gabriel Marcu 2005-01-18 $90,429,000
6571011 Conversion of output device color values to minimize image quality artifacts Kevin W. Andresen 2003-05-27 $18,569,000
6268859 Method and system for rendering overlapping opaque graphical objects in graphic imaging systems Kevin W. Andresen 2001-07-31 $42,779,000
6141121 Method and apparatus for color halftoning Magnus Karlsson 2000-10-31 $33,059,000
6118898 Methods and apparatus for compressing and decompressing multiple data sets and for managing memory storage of compressed data sets David D. Barnes 2000-09-12 $88,168,000
6115496 Method and apparatus for accelerating image data compression Hungviet Nguyen, Riaz A. Moledina 2000-09-05 $96,738,000
6028962 System and method for variable encoding based on image content Stuart L. Claassen, Riaz A. Moledina 2000-02-22 $41,069,000
6020975 System and method for accelerated data recompression Magnus Karlsson, Hungviet Nguyen 2000-02-01 $54,027,000
5930387 Method and apparatus for encoding color image data using dynamic color matching Allen M. Chan 1999-07-27 $10,369,000
5917962 Method and apparatus for partitioning an image Marilyn Chen, Allen M. Chan 1999-06-29 $18,720,000