Inventor

Michael Dixon

Inventor
Sunnyvale, CA, US

Overview

46→
Patents
1992–2021
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 46 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G08Bprimary
G08BSignalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems17%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding14%
G06FElectric digital data processing11%
G06KGraphical data reading11%
H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television9%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general6%
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication6%
G05BControl or regulating systems in general5%
G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis3%
H04MTelephonic communication3%
PatentTitleYear
11,134,227Systems and methods of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment202110,712,204Method, apparatus and system for passive infrared sensor framework202010,709,335Infant monitoring system with observation-based system control and feedback loops202010,708,472Doorbell camera202010,664,688Systems and methods of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment202010,621,733Enhanced visualization of breathing or heartbeat of an infant or other monitored subject202010,621,442Method and system for detecting an audio event for smart home devices202010,610,133Using active IR sensor to monitor sleep202010,593,184Baby monitoring with intelligent audio cueing based on an analyzed video stream202010,429,177Blocked sensor detection and notification201910,395,494Systems and methods of home-specific sound event detection201910,389,954Using images of a monitored scene to identify windows201910,302,499Adaptive threshold manipulation for movement detecting sensors201910,306,157Using images of a monitored scene to identify windows201910,306,401Systems and methods for learning and controlling area zones201910,186,140Systems and methods for detecting gesture events in a smart home system201910,074,383Sound event detection201810,068,445Systems and methods of home-specific sound event detection20189,984,519Method and system for optical user recognition20189,965,685Method and system for detecting an audio event for smart home devices20189,892,623'Systems and methods for detecting gesture events in a hazard detection system'20189,886,620'Using a scene illuminating infrared emitter array in a video monitoring camera to estimate the position of the camera'20189,805,739'Sound event detection'20179,626,849'Using scene information from a security camera to reduce false security alerts'20179,613,423'Using a depth map of a monitored scene to identify floors, walls, and ceilings'20179,571,757'Using infrared images of a monitored scene to identify windows'20179,554,064'Using a depth map of a monitored scene to identify floors, walls, and ceilings'20179,554,063'Using infrared images of a monitored scene to identify windows'20179,449,492'Systems and methods for detecting gesture events in a hazard detection system'20169,405,734'Image manipulation for web content'20168,150,842'Reputation of an author of online content'20127,237,308'Composite hydroentangling nozzle strip and method for producing nonwoven fabrics therewith'20077,103,799'Bi-directional process-to-process byte stream protocol'20066,772,335'Multimedia coordination system'20046,678,713'Machine control using a schedulerlock construct'20046,631,517'Software constructs that facilitate partial evaluation of source code'20036,560,707'Multimedia coordination system'20036,549,928'Machine control integrating event based model with task based model'20036,480,878'Machine control using response time specifications from sequential and state machine modes'20026,338,086'Collaborative object architecture'20026,308,197'Machine control using register construct'20016,292,841'Machine control using a ReferenceClock construct'20016,289,461'Bi-directional process-to-process byte stream protocol'20016,199,201'Software constructs that facilitate partial evaluation of source code'20015,325,500'Parallel processing units on a substrate, each including a column of memory'19945,088,048'Massively parallel propositional reasoning'1992

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1992–2004Patents assigned to XEROX CORP (11)· patent assignee history
1992–1994Based in San Francisco, CA, US· patent location history
2001–2006Patents assigned to PLACEWARE INC (3)· patent assignee history
2001–2012Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
2001–2004Based in Los Alto, CA, US· patent location history
2007Patents assigned to ADVANCED FLUID TECHNOLOGIES IN (1)· patent assignee history
2007Based in Pinehurst, NC, US· patent location history
2012–2020Patents assigned to GOOGLE INC (16)· patent assignee history
2016–2021Based in Sunnyvale, CA, US· patent location history
2018–2021Patents assigned to GOOGLE LLC (22)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
GOOGLE LLC222018–2021
GOOGLE INC162012–2020
XEROX CORP111992–2004
PLACEWARE INC32001–2006
ADVANCED FLUID TECHNOLOGIES IN12007
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Sunnyvale, California, US302016–2021
Palo Alto, California, US82001–2012
Los Alto, California, US52001–2004
San Francisco, California, US21992–1994
Pinehurst, NC, US12007