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Carsten Rother — 37 Patents

Microsoft: 36 patents #614 of 40,388Top 2%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Carsten Rother has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in February 2025. Carsten Rother ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Carsten Rother in Cambridge, WA, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2013.peak 82008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 8 patents2014: 6 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162018: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12235363 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim 2025-02-25
11215711 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim 2022-01-04 $333,490,000
9857470 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Otmar Hilliges, Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim 2018-01-02 $40,719,000
9430817 Blind image deblurring with cascade architecture Kevin Schelten, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Jeremy Martin Jancsary 2016-08-30 $26,338,000
9396523 Image restoration cascade Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin 2016-07-19 $45,858,000
9135732 Object-level image editing John Winn 2015-09-15 $32,492,000
9070047 Decision tree fields to map dataset content to a set of parameters Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Bangpeng Yao, Toby Sharp, Pushmeet Kohli 2015-06-30 $24,787,000
8971612 Learning image processing tasks from scene reconstructions Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Shahram Izadi, Sebastian Nowozin +3 more 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8891884 Regression tree fields Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Jeremy Martin Jancsary 2014-11-18 $23,153,000
8855411 Opacity measurement using a global pixel set Kaiming He, Jian Sun, Xiao-Ou Tang 2014-10-07 $28,629,000
8824801 Video processing Andrew William Fitzgibbon, Alexander Rav-Acha, Pushmeet Kohli 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
8787658 Image segmentation using reduced foreground training data Toby Sharp, Andrew Blake, Vladimir Kolmogorov 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
8655069 Updating image segmentation following user input Toby Sharp, Andrew Blake, Vladimir Kolmogorov 2014-02-18 $42,189,000
8644609 Up-sampling binary images for segmentation Toby Sharp 2014-02-04 $20,363,000
8605992 Image completion using scene geometry Pushmeet Kohli, Toby Sharp 2013-12-10 $31,292,000
8587670 Automatic capture modes Kenneth Robert Wood, Stephen E. Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, James Srinivasan, Antonio Criminisi +1 more 2013-11-19 $34,230,000
8558917 Transferring of digital images Kenneth Robert Wood, Stephen E. Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Mitch Goldberg, Antonio Criminisi +1 more 2013-10-15 $28,338,000
8503783 Optimization of multi-label problems in computer vision Victor Lempitsky, Andrew Blake 2013-08-06 $23,592,000
8498481 Image segmentation using star-convexity constraints Andrew Blake, Varun Gulshan, Antonio Criminisi 2013-07-30 $35,826,000
8436852 Image editing consistent with scene geometry Antonio Criminisi, Gavin Smyth, Amit Shesh 2013-05-07 $27,755,000
8422769 Image segmentation using reduced foreground training data Toby Sharp, Andrew Blake, Vladimir Kolmogorov 2013-04-16 $18,962,000
8411948 Up-sampling binary images for segmentation Toby Sharp 2013-04-02 $14,898,000
8249397 Playback of digital images Kenneth Robert Wood, Stephen E. Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, James Srinivasan, Antonio Criminisi 2012-08-21 $14,505,000
8249349 Labeling image elements Andrew Blake, Victor Lempitsky 2012-08-21 $14,505,000
8213726 Image labeling using multi-scale processing Pushmeet Kohli, Victor Lempitsky 2012-07-03 $17,614,000