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Paul Vlahos — 21 Patents

ULUltimate: 10 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
IMImatte: 9 patents #1 of 5Top 20%
Calabasas, CA: #137 of 4,119 inventorsTop 4%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Paul Vlahos has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ultimate. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in December 2016. Paul Vlahos ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Paul Vlahos in Calabasas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 41986: 1 patents19861996: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 3 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9514558 Method for preventing selected pixels in a background image from showing through corresponding pixels in a transparency layer — 2016-12-06
9288462 Conversion of an image to a transparency retaining readability and clarity of detail while automatically maintaining color information of broad areas Arie Berman 2016-03-15
7111940 Background image control by presenter position — 2006-09-26
6860604 Method and apparatus for inhibiting the projection of a shadow of a presenter onto a projection screen — 2005-03-01
6789903 Generating an inhibit signal by pattern displacement Joseph Parker, Arpag Dadourian, Arie Berman 2004-09-14
6667774 Method and apparatus for the automatic generation of subject to background transition area boundary lines and subject shadow retention Arie Berman, Arpag Dadourian 2003-12-23
6646687 Automatic background scene defocusing for image compositing — 2003-11-11
6616281 Visible-invisible background prompter Petro Vlahos 2003-09-09
6538396 Automatic foreground lighting effects in a composited scene Allen Dadourian, Joseph Parker, Petro Vlahos 2003-03-25
6454415 Interactive teleconferencing display system — 2002-09-24
6363526 Edge enhancement correction for improved image quality Arie Berman, Arpag Dadourian 2002-03-26
6361173 Method and apparatus for inhibiting projection of selected areas of a projected image Arpag Dadourian, Petro Vlahos 2002-03-26
6288703 Method for removing from an image the background surrounding a selected subject by generating candidate mattes Arie Berman, Arpag Dadourian 2001-09-11
6134345 Comprehensive method for removing from an image the background surrounding a selected subject Arie Berman, Arpag Dadourian 2000-10-17
6134346 Method for removing from an image the background surrounding a selected object Arie Berman, Arpag Dadourian 2000-10-17
5940140 Backing luminance non-uniformity compensation in real-time compositing systems Arpag Dadourian, Arie Berman 1999-08-17
5907315 Method and apparatus for adjusting parameters used by compositing devices Arpag Dadourian, George Sauve 1999-05-25
5831685 Backing color and luminance nonuniformity compensation Petro Vlahos 1998-11-03
5742354 Method for generating non-visible window edges in image compositing systems Petro Vlahos 1998-04-21
5515109 Backing color and luminance nonuniformity compensation Petro Vlahos 1996-05-07
4589013 Automated encoded signal color image compositing Petro Vlahos, David Fellinger 1986-05-13

Frequent Collaborators

Arpag Dadourian9 shared
Arie Berman8 shared
Petro Vlahos7 shared
Joseph Parker2 shared
David Fellinger1 shared
Allen Dadourian1 shared

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