Barbara A. Hall
19Patents
12h-index
16Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 4, 1990 → Mar 28, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.