Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Brian R. Nickerson

25Patents
14h-index
12Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 16, 1993 → Sep 22, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5864345A Table-based color conversion to different RGB16 formats Physics 74 Expired
US5493514A Process, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding video signals Electricity 72 Expired
US5778097A Table-driven bi-directional motion estimation using scratch area and offset valves Electricity 55 Expired
US5528238A Process, apparatus and system for decoding variable-length encoded signals Electricity 40 Expired
US6526159B1 Eye tracking for resource and power management Physics 40 Expired
US5926222A Bitrate estimator for selecting quantization levels for image encoding Electricity 36 Expired
US5351085A Method and system for generating compressed image signals Electricity 34 Expired
US5386232A Method and apparatus for encoding images using a specified data format Electricity 34 Expired
US5559722A Process, apparatus and system for transforming signals using pseudo-SIMD processing Electricity 24 Expired
US5764787A Multi-byte processing of byte-based image data Physics 21 Expired
US5384582A Conversion of image data from subsampled format to clut format Physics 21 Expired
US8854389B2 Apparatus and method for hardware-based video/image post-processing Physics 21 Active
US6842190B1 Video bit stream extension with supplementary content information to aid in subsequent video processing Physics 17 Expired
US5926569A Bitrate damper for selecting quantization levels for image encoding Electricity 16 Expired
US5432554A Method and apparatus for decoding images using a specified data format Electricity 14 Expired
US5638068A Processing images using two-dimensional forward transforms Electricity 12 Expired
US5488568A Playback method and system for processing image data Electricity 9 Expired
US7714909B2 Video bit stream extension by differential information annotation Physics 7 Active
US5539662A Process, apparatus and system for transforming signals using strength-reduced transforms Electricity 7 Expired
US5900861A Table-driven color conversion using interleaved indices Physics 5 Expired
US6404812B1 Method and apparatus for controlling video encoder output bit rate using progressive re-quantization Electricity 3 Expired
US7515766B2 Apparatus and method for edge handling in image processing Physics 2 Active
US7256825B2 Video bit stream extension by differential information annotation Physics 1 Expired
US8773555B2 Video bit stream extension by video information annotation Physics 0 Active
US10891131B2 Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to consolidate data elements and generate index updates Physics 0 Active

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