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David C. Collier — 16 Patents

Sony: 13 patents #3,398 of 25,231Top 15%
MAMacrovision: 4 patents #15 of 69Top 25%
MCMotion Computing: 2 patents #10 of 31Top 35%
Gilroy, CA: #72 of 527 inventorsTop 15%
California: #37,952 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
David C. Collier has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in April 2010. David C. Collier ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list David C. Collier in Gilroy, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7702591 System and methods providing secure delivery of licenses and content Francois-Xavier Nuttall, Robert Fenney, Patrice Capitant 2010-04-20 $8,640,000
7620244 Methods and systems for slant compensation in handwriting and signature recognition 2009-11-17
7428143 Tablet computer palette with extended bezel Ronnie L. Jones 2008-09-23
7299209 Method, apparatus and system for securely providing material to a licensee of the material 2007-11-20 $5,237,000
7051004 System and methods providing secure delivery of licenses and content Francois-Xavier Nuttall, Robert Fenney, Patrice Capitant 2006-05-23 $5,350,000
6701062 Generational copy control of a video signal Johan Cornelis Talstra, Mark Hollar, Kordian Kurowski, William J. Wrobleski, James R. Holzgrafe +4 more 2004-03-02 $10,933,000
6360000 Method and apparatus for watermark detection for specific scales and arbitrary shifts 2002-03-19
6198906 Method and apparatus for performing broadcast operations Gerard J. Boetje 2001-03-06 $1,657,000
6091407 Method and apparatus for manifesting representations of scheduled elements in a broadcast environment Gerard J. Boetje 2000-07-18 $3,111,000
6049332 Method and apparatus for the scheduling and ordering of elements in a multimedia environment Gerard J. Boetje 2000-04-11 $4,867,000
5646750 Method and apparatus for compressing video in a manner characteristic of photographic film 1997-07-08 $302,000
5467412 Correcting digitized signals to achieve specified output results for an image Patrice Capitant 1995-11-14 $287,000
5452018 Digital color correction system having gross and fine adjustment modes Patrice Capitant, Kathlynn Uenaka, John B. Carlucci 1995-09-19 $100,000
5412773 Computerized interactive menu-driven video signal processing apparatus and method John B. Carlucci, Jon E. Graham, Douglas D. Kuper, Kathlynn Uenaka 1995-05-02 $207,000
5387929 Method and apparatus for subject image tracking in high definition film-to-video color correction 1995-02-07 $160,000
5255083 Digital color correction system and method Patrice Capitant, Vinson R. Perry, John B. Carlucci 1993-10-19 $104,000