Inventor

ROGER D. MELEN

Inventor

Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Overview

56→

Patents

1977–2020

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 56 as inventor

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

G06Vprimary

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding14%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television13%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general10%

G06FElectric digital data processing9%

G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings7%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication6%

H04WWireless communication networks6%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes5%

G06KGraphical data reading4%

G08GTraffic control systems4%

PatentTitleYear

10,819,389Reducing adjacent channel interference for wireless vehicular messages2020 10,630,339Reducing adjacent channel interference for wireless vehicular messages2020 10,491,312Simultaneous reception of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages over multiple channels in multi-channel V2X networks2019 9,916,362'Content recommendation based on efficacy models'2018 9,792,331'Content recommendation based on efficacy models'2017 9,705,990'Transfer of digital data to mobile software systems'2017 9,581,456'Determining an estimated time of arrival of a vehicle at an endpoint of a journey'2017 9,574,964'Mobile computer atmospheric barometric pressure system'2017 9,554,258'System for dynamic content recommendation using social network data'2017 9,519,881'Estimating journey destination based on popularity factors'2016 8,938,544'Vehicle network connectivity management'2015 8,892,350'Journey learning system'2014 8,775,886'Architecture for a self-healing computer system'2014 8,670,934'Journey destination endpoint determination'2014 8,155,868'Managing vehicle efficiency'2012 7,174,370'System and methodology for developing, integrating and monitoring computer applications and programs'2007 6,970,847'Business method for secure document folder distribution'2005 6,868,333'Group interaction system for interaction with other vehicles of a group'2005 6,760,469'Flipping stereoscopic radiographs'2004 6,674,892'Correcting an epipolar axis for skew and offset'2004 6,631,205'Stereoscopic imaging in a portable document format'2003 6,437,306'Reducing motion artifacts by joining partial images in multiple scans'2002 6,426,806'Routing scanned documents with scanned control sheets'2002 6,320,979'Depth of field enhancement'2001 6,275,253'Stereographic image compression with image moment normalization'2001 6,266,445'Classification-driven thresholding of a normalized grayscale image'2001 6,263,121'Archival and retrieval of similar documents'2001 6,259,814'Image recognition through localized interpretation'2001 6,222,938'Compensating pixel records of related images for detecting images disparity, apparatus and method'2001 6,215,825'Stereographic image compression with image difference generation and lossy compression'2001 6,205,241'Compression of stereoscopic images'2001 6,160,909'Depth control for stereoscopic images'2000 6,151,423'Character recognition with document orientation determination'2000 6,141,440'Disparity measurement with variably sized interrogation regions'2000 6,128,071'Range data recordation'2000 6,097,844'Stereographic image compression with adaptive control parameter generation'2000 5,949,554'Hierarchical system for processing and dispatching task orders into a user network and method'1999 5,912,996'Method of enhancing the signal-to-noise within the pixel image of a hand entered symbol'1999 5,867,277'Reduced resolution document storage and retrieval system'1999 5,809,172'Non-linear aggregation mapping compression of image data and method'1998 5,781,659'OCR classification based on transition ground data'1998 5,752,079'System for reading parameters from portable key module and transferring these parameters to controller to effect distribution and storage of electronic document data throughout network'1998 5,719,960'System for dispatching task orders into a user network and method'1998 5,650,799'Programmable function keys for a networked imaging computer system'1997 5,619,594'Image processing system with on-the-fly JPEG compression'1997 5,544,045'Unified scanner computer printer'1996 5,519,787'Method of compressing image data having a uniform background tint'1996 5,487,118'Sequential extraction of strokes from a stroke based symbol apparatus and method'1996 5,325,167'Record document authentication by microscopic grain structure and method'1994 5,257,323'Selection agent for a symbol determination system with multiple character recognition processors'1993 5,248,139'Document transport apparatus'1993 5,046,116'Symbol analyzing system and method with data exclusion and confidence factors'1991 4,476,467'Random entry intercomputer network with collision prevention'1984 4,233,671'Read only memory and integrated circuit and method of programming by laser means'1980 4,152,678'Cascade charge coupled delay line device for compound delays'1979 4,041,519'Low transient effect switching device and method'1977

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1977–2015Patents assigned to MELEN ROGER D (4)· patent assignee history

1977–1979Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history

1980–2018Based in Los Altos Hills, CA, US· patent location history

1984–2020Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history

1991–1994Patents assigned to CANON RESEARCH CENTER AMERICA (3)· patent assignee history

1993–2005Patents assigned to CANON KK (32)· patent assignee history

2007–2014Patents assigned to MELEN ROGER (3)· patent assignee history

2014–2020Patents assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD (11)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
CANON KK	32	1993–2005
TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD	11	2014–2020
MELEN ROGER Dself	4	1977–2015
CANON RESEARCH CENTER AMERICA	3	1991–1994
MELEN ROGERself	3	2007–2014

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Los Altos Hills, California, US	50	1980–2018
Mountain View, California, US	4	1984–2020
Palo Alto, California, US	2	1977–1979