Inventor · Los Angeles, CA, US

Christopher J. Cookson

70Patents
23h-index
41Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 29, 1993 → Aug 10, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5469370A System and method for controlling play of multiple audio tracks of a software carrier Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 272 Expired
US5463565A Data block format for software carrier and player therefor Electricity 170 Expired
US5450489A System and method for authenticating software carriers Electricity 162 Expired
US7436780B2 Method and apparatus for approximating location of node attached to a network Electricity 149 Expired
US5896454A System and method for controlling copying and playing of digital programs Electricity 128 Expired
US5623424A Rate-controlled digital video editing method and system which controls bit allocation of a video encoder by varying quantization levels Electricity 125 Expired
US5598276A System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk Electricity 121 Expired
US5400077A System for generating multiple aspect ratio video signals from motion picture disk recorded in a single aspect ratio Electricity 119 Expired
US5684714A Method and system for a user to manually alter the quality of a previously encoded video sequence Electricity 105 Expired
US6591365B1 Copy protection control system Physics 103 Expired
US5819004A Method and system for a user to manually alter the quality of previously encoded video frames Electricity 88 Expired
US6219043A Method and system to replace sections of an encoded video bitstream Physics 78 Expired
US7190880B2 Player and disc system for producing video signals in different formats Electricity 73 Expired
US5576843A System and method for controlling play of multiple dialog audio tracks of a software carrier Electricity 72 Expired
US5497241A System and method for controlling display of motion picture subtitles in a selected language during play of a software carrier Physics 71 Expired
US5488410A System and method for disk software publishers to control disk distribution Electricity 64 Expired
US6026232A Method and system to replace sections of an encoded video bitstream Physics 62 Expired
US5574567A System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of the same motion picture stored on an optical disk Electricity 60 Expired
US5712950A System and method for controlling play of multiple dialog audio tracks of a software carrier Electricity 57 Expired
US6160787A Multiple layer optical recording medium for use with two different wavelength laser beams Physics 39 Expired
US5671320A System and method for controlling play of multiple dialog audio tracks of a software carrier Electricity 37 Expired
US5644507A Method for interleaving data for seamless playback of multiple program versions having common material Electricity 34 Expired
US5838874A Audiovisual encoding system with a reduced number of audio encoders Electricity 23 Expired
US7167209B2 Methods for encoding data in an analog video signal such that it survives resolution conversion Electricity 20 Expired
US7376183B2 Post-production processing Physics 20 Expired

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