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Olympus Imaging
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Olympus Imaging
— 730 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,169
of
105,732
Top 2%
341
inventors
730
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2015
Bar chart with a peak of 103 patents in 2010.
peak 103
2006: 7 patents
2006
2007: 31 patents
2007
2008: 77 patents
2008
2009: 83 patents
2009
2010: 103 patents
2010
2011: 89 patents
2011
2012: 68 patents
2012
2013: 97 patents
2013
2014: 95 patents
2014
2015: 80 patents
2015
Top Inventors at Olympus Imaging
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
341
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Osamu Nonaka
60
2
Daisuke Tainaka
34
2
Sumio Kawai
34
#4
Tomoyuki Satori
23
#5
Masahiro Katakura
20
#6
Koji Sakai
18
#6
Manabu Ichikawa
18
#8
Keiji Kunishige
17
#8
Masahito Watanabe
17
#10
Eiji Shirota
16
#10
Yasuharu Yamada
16
#12
Takeshi Nohara
15
#13
Kenji Tajima
14
#14
Koji Shimobayashi
13
#14
Masashi Hankawa
13
#14
Masaru Morooka
13
#14
Takashi Miyazawa
13
#18
Toru Miyajima
12
#18
Yasuo Funakoshi
12
#18
Yoshitaka Naito
12
#21
Kenji Ono
11
#22
Kazuteru Kawamura
10
#22
Kazuya Nishimura
10
#22
Kenzo Nakajima
10
#22
Shuhei Kaneko
10
#22
Tetsuya Toyoda
10
#22
Yoji Watanabe
10
#28
Keisuke Ichikawa
9
#28
Masaomi Tomizawa
9
#28
Satoshi Miyazaki
9
#28
Tetsuya Yanai
9
#28
Toshio Takahashi
9
#28
Yoshihiro Hayashi
9
#28
Yoshinori Matsuzawa
9
#28
Yoichiro Okumura
9
#36
Hisashi Goto
8
#36
Jun Takahashi
8
#36
Kensei Ito
8
#36
Kenichi Onomura
8
#36
Kunio Yamamiya
8
#36
Masato Miyata
8
#36
Tetsuo Kikuchi
8
#43
Akira Tani
7
#43
Akiyoshi Tochigi
7
#43
Atsushi Maruyama
7
#43
Hiroshi Kodama
7
#43
Hideyuki Nagaoka
7
#43
Keiji Okada
7
#43
Kouki Hozumi
7
#43
Koichi Nakata
7
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Patent
Est. Value
Year
Stereo image reproducing apparatus, stereo image reproduction method, stereo image reproduction program, and recording medium having such program recorded therein
$187K
2013
3D image file, photographing apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, and image processing apparatus
$102K
2014
Method, device and program for processing stereoscopic images and recording medium storing the program
$76K
2012
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