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Otmar Hilliges — 28 Patents

Microsoft: 26 patents #1,112 of 40,388Top 3%
EZEth Zurich: 1 patents #155 of 584Top 30%
Disney: 1 patents #4,015 of 6,686Top 65%
Cambridge, GB: #104 of 4,587 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Otmar Hilliges has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in February 2025. Otmar Hilliges ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Otmar Hilliges in Cambridge, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2013.peak 62012: 1 patents20122013: 6 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12235363 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Carsten Rother 2025-02-25
11709506 Drone and method of controlling flight of a drone Tobias NÄGELI 2023-07-25
11215711 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Carsten Rother 2022-01-04 $333,490,000
10761612 Gesture recognition techniques David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2020-09-01 $133,035,000
10399327 Designing customized deformable input devices using simulated piezoelectric sensor responses Moritz Niklaus Bächer, Benjamin Hepp, Fabrizio Pece, Paul Gregory Kry, Bernd Bickel +1 more 2019-09-03 $141,696,000
10331222 Gesture recognition techniques David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
10234941 Wearable sensor for tracking articulated body-parts David Kim, Shahram Izadi, David Alexander Butler, Stephen E. Hodges, Patrick Olivier +2 more 2019-03-19 $58,168,000
10049458 Reducing interference between multiple infra-red depth cameras Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Stephen E. Hodges +3 more 2018-08-14 $70,220,000
9891704 Augmented reality with direct user interaction David Kim, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2018-02-13 $44,475,000
9857470 Using photometric stereo for 3D environment modeling Malte Hanno Weiss, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Carsten Rother 2018-01-02 $40,719,000
9552673 Grasping virtual objects in augmented reality David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Malte Hanno Weiss 2017-01-24 $42,640,000
9529424 Augmented reality with direct user interaction David Kim, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Stephen E. Hodges, David Alexander Butler 2016-12-27 $44,288,000
9372544 Gesture recognition techniques David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2016-06-21 $57,727,000
9242171 Real-time camera tracking using depth maps Richard Andrew Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton +4 more 2016-01-26 $35,526,000
9247238 Reducing interference between multiple infra-red depth cameras Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Stephen E. Hodges +3 more 2016-01-26 $35,526,000
9053571 Generating computer models of 3D objects Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Pushmeet Kohli +2 more 2015-06-09 $39,913,000
8971612 Learning image processing tasks from scene reconstructions Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli, Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Shahram Izadi, Carsten Rother +3 more 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8760395 Gesture recognition techniques David Kim, Shahram Izadi, Patrick Olivier, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2014-06-24 $40,583,000
8711206 Mobile camera localization using depth maps Richard Andrew Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton +4 more 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8660303 Detection of body and props Shahram Izadi, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, John Winn, Antonio Criminisi, Mat Cook +1 more 2014-02-25 $35,687,000
8638985 Human body pose estimation Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Shahram Izadi, David Kim, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Matthew Darius Cook +4 more 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8587583 Three-dimensional environment reconstruction Richard Andrew Newcombe, Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton +4 more 2013-11-19 $34,230,000
8570320 Using a three-dimensional environment model in gameplay Shahram Izadi, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, David Kim, Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Pushmeet Kohli +3 more 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8502816 Tabletop display providing multiple views to users David Alexander Butler, Stephen E. Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Nicolas Villar, Stuart Taylor +1 more 2013-08-06 $23,592,000
8502795 Physics simulation-based interaction for surface computing Andrew D. Wilson, Shahram Izadi, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, David Kirk 2013-08-06 $23,592,000