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Thomson Multimedia

137Patents
0Active
137Granted
42Portfolio score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 1993 → Mar 16, 2000

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5734413A Transaction based interactive television system Electricity 371 Expired
US5949398A Select line driver for a display matrix with toggling backplane Physics 344 Expired
US6091883A Method and device for recording and reading on a large-capacity medium Electricity 319 Expired
US5764275A Interactive television security through transaction time stamping Electricity 270 Expired
US6023267A Process for selecting programes, especially television programes and device and graphical interface implementing this process Electricity 225 Expired
US5638113A Transaction based interactive television system Electricity 211 Expired
US5859630A Bi-directional shift register Physics 188 Expired
US5905535A Differential coding of motion vectors using the median of candidate vectors Electricity 149 Expired
US5903324A Transport processor interface for a digital television system Electricity 115 Expired
US6035038A Conditional access system and smartcard allowing such access Electricity 101 Expired
US5621467A Temporal-spatial error concealment apparatus and method for video signal processors Electricity 94 Expired
US5995154A Process for interpolating progressive frames Electricity 86 Expired
US5956097A System for automatically controlling the tuning of television receiver receiving channels Electricity 69 Expired
US6266415A Process for protecting an information item transmitted from a security element to a decoder and protection system using such a process Electricity 68 Expired
US5731837A Quantization circuitry as for video signal compression systems Electricity 66 Expired
US5610661A Automatic image scanning format converter with seamless switching Electricity 62 Expired
US6148107A Quantization process for video encoding Electricity 61 Expired
US5805230A Method for automatic programming of a tuner and device for implementation of the method Electricity 61 Expired
US5574505A Method and apparatus for operating a transport stream encoder to produce a stream of packets carrying data representing a plurality of component signals Electricity 58 Expired
USD388077S Screen for a television set General 58 Expired
US5828788A System for processing data in variable segments and with variable data resolution Electricity 58 Expired
US6072628A Optical polarisation device Physics 56 Expired
US5530484A Image scanning format converter suitable for a high definition television system Electricity 46 Expired
US5790937A Method and apparatus for the distribution of multi-media documents Electricity 46 Expired
US5777910A Sparse equalization filter adaptive in two dimensions Electricity 41 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.