Brian Astle
41Patents
27h-index
15Co-inventors
82Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 10, 1974 → Dec 10, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4785349A | Digital video decompression system | Electricity | 225 | Expired |
| US5485611A | Video database indexing and method of presenting video database index to a user | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 196 | Expired |
| US4587520A | Cursor controlled page selection in a video display | Electricity | 173 | Expired |
| US5953076A | System and method of real time insertions into video using adaptive occlusion with a synthetic reference image | Electricity | 166 | Expired |
| US5835149A | Bit allocation in a coded video sequence | Electricity | 151 | Expired |
| US5812787A | Video coding scheme with foreground/background separation | Electricity | 143 | Expired |
| US5552832A | Run-length encoding sequence for video signals | Electricity | 136 | Expired |
| US4918523A | Digital video formatting and transmission system and method | Electricity | 124 | Expired |
| US5590064A | Post-filtering for decoded video signals | Electricity | 120 | Expired |
| US5225904A | Adaptive digital video compression system | Electricity | 103 | Expired |
| US4868653A | Adaptive digital video compression system | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US4823201A | Processor for expanding a compressed video signal | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US5079630A | Adaptive video compression system | Electricity | 83 | Expired |
| US5365552A | Buffer fullness indicator | Electricity | 72 | Expired |
| US3955353A | Direct current power converters employing digital techniques used in electronic timekeeping apparatus | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US4827344A | Apparatus for inserting part of one video image into another video image | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US5818969A | Intelligent start for motion estimation search | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US5608652A | Reducing blocking effects in block transfer encoders | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US6529613B1 | Motion tracking using image-texture templates | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US5557330A | Encoding video signals using selective pre-filtering | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US4698682A | Video apparatus and method for producing the illusion of motion from a sequence of still images | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US6396816B1 | Method and apparatus for multiple applications on a single ISDN line | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US4816913A | Pixel interpolation circuitry as for a video signal processor | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US5703966A | Block selection using motion estimation error | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6026190A | Image signal encoding with variable low-pass filter | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.