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Hitoshi Kiya — 23 Patents

Sony: 20 patents #2,052 of 25,231Top 9%
TUTokyo Metropolitan University: 11 patents #2 of 128Top 2%
UNUnknown: 6 patents #2,010 of 83,584Top 3%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 3 patents #7,735 of 21,551Top 40%
Tokyo, JP: #6,320 of 90,295 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Hitoshi Kiya has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in December 2017. Hitoshi Kiya ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Hitoshi Kiya in Tokyo, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9838715 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2017-12-05 $474,000
9473793 Image processing apparatus, method, and program Takahiro Fukuhara 2016-10-18 $777,000
9414068 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2016-08-09 $739,000
9367755 Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus and methods thereof Takahiro Fukuhara 2016-06-14 $573,000
9324162 Image processing apparatus, method, and program Takahiro Fukuhara 2016-04-26 $325,000
8891882 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2014-11-18 $202,000
8873871 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2014-10-28 $158,000
8842923 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2014-09-23 $196,000
8634553 Encryption key generation device Yoichi Hata, Toshiaki Kakii, Yasuhito Fujita, Yoshimitsu Goto, Kiyoshi Nishikawa +2 more 2014-01-21
8630487 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2014-01-14 $272,000
8620075 Image processing device and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2013-12-31 $123,000
8606007 Image processing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara 2013-12-10 $112,000
8553928 Image processing method and image inspecting method Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Masaaki Fujiyoshi, Yoichi Hata, Toshiaki Kakii, Yoshimitsu Goto 2013-10-08
8467442 Image searching device and method, program and program recording medium Takahiro Fukuhara 2013-06-18 $186,000
8406533 Image comparing apparatus and method therefor, image retrieving apparatus as well as program and recording medium Takahiro Fukuhara 2013-03-26 $139,000
7983497 Coding method for motion-image data, decoding method, terminal equipment executing these, and two-way interactive system Toshiaki Kakii, Hisao Maki, Yoichi Hata 2011-07-19
7949042 Image searching device and method, program and program recording medium Takahiro Fukuhara 2011-05-24 $246,000
7433541 Image synthesizing apparatus and method Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura 2008-10-07 $513,000
7298910 Wavelet inverse transform method and apparatus and wavelet decoding method and apparatus Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura 2007-11-20 $893,000
6968086 Wavelet inverse transform method and apparatus and wavelet decoding method and apparatus Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura 2005-11-22 $532,000
6658158 Wavelet encoding method and apparatus and wavelet decoding method and apparatus Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura 2003-12-02 $648,000
6591017 Wavelet transform method and apparatus Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura 2003-07-08 $531,000
6553396 Filter bank constituting method and filter bank apparatus Takahiro Fukuhara, Seiji Kimura, Hiroyuki Kobayashi 2003-04-22 $283,000

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