Inventor

Suk Hwan Lim

Inventor

Mountain View, CA, US

Overview

2005–2020

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 89 as inventor

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

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general36%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television36%

G06FElectric digital data processing10%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding8%

G06KGraphical data reading6%

H10FInorganic semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation1%

A61PSpecific therapeutic activity of chemical compounds or medicinal preparations1%

C07DHeterocyclic compounds1%

G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models1%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes1%

PatentTitleYear

10,868,985Correcting pixel defects based on defect history in an image processing pipeline2020 10,747,843Configurable convolution engine2020 10,719,918Dynamically determining filtering strength for noise filtering in image processing2020 10,606,918Configurable convolution engine2020 10,586,128Configurable histogram-of-oriented gradients (HOG) processor2020 10,547,779Smart image sensor having integrated memory and processor2020 10,498,960Modeless video and still frame capture2019 10,489,478Configurable convolution engine2019 10,467,496Temporal filtering of independent color channels in image data2019 10,440,299Correcting pixel defects based on defect history in an image processing pipeline2019 10,298,863Automatic compensation of lens flare2019 10,269,095Dynamically determining filtering strength for noise filtering in image processing2019 10,225,511Low power framework for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device2019 10,205,898Minimizing a data pedestal level in an image sensor2019 10,129,477Smart image sensor having integrated memory and processor2018 10,070,109Highlight recovery in images2018 10,038,845Modeless video and still frame capture2018 9,992,467Parallel computer vision and image scaling architecture2018 9,977,994Configurable histogram-of-oriented gradients (HOG) processor2018 9,979,942Per pixel color correction filtering2018 9,911,177'Applying chroma suppression to image data in a scaler of an image processing pipeline'2018 9,911,174'Multi-rate processing for image data in an image processing pipeline'2018 9,858,636'Configurable convolution engine'2018 9,838,641Low power framework for processing, compressing, and transmitting images at a mobile image capture device2017 9,787,922'Pixel defect preprocessing in an image signal processor'2017 9,756,266'Sensor data rescaler for image signal processing'2017 9,747,514'Noise filtering and image sharpening utilizing common spatial support'2017 9,743,057'Systems and methods for lens shading correction'2017 9,741,099'Systems and methods for local tone mapping'2017 9,710,896'Systems and methods for chroma noise reduction'2017 9,686,470'Scene stability detection'2017 9,648,261'Account for clipped pixels in auto-focus statistics collection'2017 9,591,219'Modeless video and still frame capture'2017 9,514,525'Temporal filtering for image data using spatial filtering and noise history'2016 9,479,695'Generating a high dynamic range image using a temporal filter'2016 9,448,695'Selecting web page content based on user permission for collecting user-selected content'2016 9,413,951'Dynamic motion estimation and compensation for temporal filtering'2016 9,412,164'Apparatus and methods for imaging system calibration'2016 9,374,526'Providing frame delay using a temporal filter'2016 9,369,684'Image tone adjustment using local tone curve computation'2016 9,344,626'Modeless video and still frame capture using interleaved frames of video and still resolutions'2016 9,342,858'Systems and methods for statistics collection using clipped pixel tracking'2016 9,332,239'Systems and methods for RGB image processing'2016 9,219,870'Sensor data rescaler for image signal processing'2015 9,218,322'Producing web page content'2015 9,152,357'Method and system for providing print content to a client'2015 9,142,012'Systems and methods for chroma noise reduction'2015 9,131,196'Systems and methods for defective pixel correction with neighboring pixels'2015 9,113,118'Green non-uniformity correction'2015 9,105,078'Systems and methods for local tone mapping'2015 9,077,943'Local image statistics collection'2015 9,031,319'Systems and methods for luma sharpening'2015 9,025,867'Systems and methods for YCC image processing'2015 9,014,504'Systems and methods for highlight recovery in an image signal processor'2015 8,958,658'Image tone adjustment using local tone curve computation'2015 8,953,882'Systems and methods for determining noise statistics of image data'2015 8,918,403'Semantically ranking content in a website'2014 8,913,847'Replacement of a person or object in an image'2014 8,872,946'Systems and methods for raw image processing'2014 8,867,837'Detecting separator lines in a web page'2014 8,818,109'Context-aware image processing'2014 8,817,120'Systems and methods for collecting fixed pattern noise statistics of image data'2014 8,792,728'Near-duplicate image detection'2014 8,687,068'Pattern of color codes'2014 8,654,201'Method for deblurring an image'2014 8,577,887'Content grouping systems and methods'2013 8,559,726'Image analysis based on pixel brightness grouping'2013 8,560,940'Detecting repeat patterns on a web page using signals'2013 8,548,237'Ordinal and spatial local feature vector based image representation'2013 8,417,050'Multi-scale robust sharpening and contrast enhancement'2013 8,406,519'Compositing head regions into target images'2013 8,238,687'Local contrast enhancement of images'2012 8,189,944'Fast edge-preserving smoothing of images'2012 8,064,694'Nonhuman animal integument pixel classification'2011 7,941,002'Apparatus and methods of producing photorealistic image thumbnails'2011 7,925,113'Generating compound images having increased sharpness and reduced noise'2011 7,868,950'Reducing noise and artifacts in an image'2011 7,865,032'Methods and systems for identifying an ill-exposed image'2011 7,860,332'Method and system for determining an indication of focus of an image'2010 7,783,125'Multi-resolution processing of digital signals'2010 7,747,071'Detecting and correcting peteye'2010 7,688,379'Selecting quality images from multiple captured images'2010 7,643,699'Image processing based on local noise statistics'2010 7,643,062'Method and system for deblurring an image based on motion tracking'2010 7,623,683'Combining multiple exposure images to increase dynamic range'2009 7,551,772'Blur estimation in a digital image'2009 7,522,782'Digital image denoising'2009 7,394,929'Digital picture image color conversion'2008 6,927,796'CMOS image sensor system with self-reset digital pixel architecture for improving SNR and dynamic range'2005

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2005–2014Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history

2008–2015Patents assigned to HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (31)· patent assignee history

2008–2020Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history

2009–2014Based in San Mateo, CA, US· patent location history

2011–2017Patents assigned to LIM SUK HWAN (31)· patent assignee history

2011–2013Based in Foster City, CA, US· patent location history

2012Based in Menlo Park, CA, US· patent location history

2014–2020Patents assigned to APPLE INC (50)· patent assignee history

2014–2017Patents assigned to SILVERSTEIN D AMNON (10)· patent assignee history

2014–2017Patents assigned to COTE GUY (9)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
APPLE INC	50	2014–2020
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO	31	2008–2015
LIM SUK HWANself	31	2011–2017
SILVERSTEIN D AMNON	10	2014–2017
COTE GUY	9	2014–2017

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Mountain View, California, US	68	2008–2020
Palo Alto, California, US	8	2005–2014
San Mateo, California, US	8	2009–2014
Foster City, California, US	3	2011–2013
Menlo Park, California, US	2	2012