Richard Mark Friedhoff

Richard Mark Friedhoff is a computer scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, and expert on innovation management, especially for inventor-founded companies. His basic discoveries in vision science have resulted in more than 60 US patents, and numerous others in various territories around the world. His research interests include perceptual and cognitive aspects of the graphical user interface, stereoscopic inkjet printing, digital photography, human color vision, and computer vision including object recognition, face recognition, assisted and autonomous driving, and machine learning. Over the course of his career, he founded three companies including Tandent Vision Science, Inc., an innovator in computer vision, where from 2005 until early 2019, he was the founder, CEO, and Chief Science Officer. He has been a longterm advisor to some of the most impactful inventors in US industrial history.