Brian R. Nickerson
25Patents
14h-index
12Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 16, 1993 → Sep 22, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.