Inventor · Endwell, NY, US

Barbara A. Hall

19Patents
12h-index
16Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 4, 1990 → Mar 28, 2002

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6356589B1 Sharing reference data between multiple encoders parallel encoding a sequence of video frames Electricity 129 Expired
US5737020A Adaptive field/frame encoding of discrete cosine transform Electricity 99 Expired
US5978029A Real-time encoding of video sequence employing two encoders and statistical analysis Electricity 92 Expired
US6020934A Motion estimation architecture for area and power reduction Electricity 61 Expired
US5418916A Central processing unit checkpoint retry for store-in and store-through cache systems Physics 55 Expired
US5786856A Method for adaptive quantization by multiplication of luminance pixel blocks by a modified, frequency ordered hadamard matrix Electricity 47 Expired
US6269120A Method of precise buffer management for MPEG video splicing Electricity 35 Expired
US6956899B2 Precise bit control apparatus with look-ahead for MPEG encoding Electricity 25 Expired
US6895048B2 Adaptive encoding of a sequence of still frames or partially still frames within motion video Electricity 20 Expired
US5844607A Method and apparatus for scene change detection in digital video compression Electricity 17 Expired
US6993078B2 Macroblock coding technique with biasing towards skip macroblock coding Electricity 17 Expired
US5760836A FIFO feedback and control for digital video encoder Electricity 16 Expired
US6823015B2 Macroblock coding using luminance date in analyzing temporal redundancy of picture, biased by chrominance data Electricity 7 Expired
US7936814B2 Cascaded output for an encoder system using multiple encoders Electricity 3 Active
US6788227B2 Apparatus for integrated cascade encoding Electricity 3 Expired
US6720893B2 Programmable output control of compressed data from encoder Electricity 1 Expired
US6980598B2 Programmable vertical filter for video encoding Electricity 1 Expired
US7016413B2 Adaptively encoding a picture of contrasted complexity having normal video and noisy video portions Electricity 1 Expired
US7738551B2 System and method for processing a high definition television (HDTV) image Electricity 0 Active

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