Inventor · Sesto San Giovanni, IT

Danilo Pau

73Patents
16h-index
74Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 3, 1996 → Aug 30, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6724823B2 VLSI architecture, in particular for motion estimation applications Physics 91 Expired
US9204112B2 Systems, circuits, and methods for efficient hierarchical object recognition based on clustered invariant features Physics 91 Active
US5923375A Memory reduction in the MPEG-2 main profile main level decoder Electricity 59 Expired
US6480543B1 Detection of a change of scene in a motion estimator of a video encoder Electricity 37 Expired
US6023295A ADPCM recompression and decompression of a data stream of a video image and differential variance estimator Electricity 35 Expired
US5838597A MPEG-2 decoding with a reduced RAM requisite by ADPCM recompression before storing MPEG-2 decompressed data Electricity 35 Expired
US6556718B1 Video pictures compression and coding with decision step for field/frame and motion vectors DCT Electricity 33 Expired
US6891891B2 Motion estimation process and system Electricity 33 Expired
US7301999B2 Quantization method and system for video MPEG applications and computer program product therefor Electricity 32 Expired
US5986711A MPEG decoding with a reduced RAM requisite by ADPCM recompression before storing MPEG decompressed data, optionally after a subsampling algorithm Electricity 23 Expired
US7243213B2 Process for translating instructions for an arm-type processor into instructions for a LX-type processor; relative translator device and computer program product Physics 20 Expired
US6925119B2 Process and system for the compression of digital video signals, a system and a computer program product therefor Electricity 20 Expired
US5889562A Memory requirement reduction in a SQTV processor by ADPCM compression Electricity 19 Expired
US6223193A Macroblock variance estimator for MPEG-2 video encoder Electricity 19 Expired
US9131163B2 Efficient compact descriptors in visual search systems Physics 18 Active
US7010041B2 Process for changing the syntax, resolution and bitrate of MPEG bitstreams, a system and a computer product therefor Electricity 17 Expired
US6889317B2 Processor architecture Physics 16 Expired
US6320907A Adaptive tree-search vector quantization in MPEG2 decoder Electricity 15 Expired
US7233623B1 Method and scalable architecture for parallel calculation of the DCT of blocks of pixels of different sizes and compression through fractal coding Electricity 14 Expired
US6414997B1 Hierarchical recursive motion estimator for video images encoder Electricity 14 Expired
US7375763B2 Method and system for de-interlacing digital images, and computer program product therefor Electricity 11 Expired
US6456659B1 Motion estimator algorithm and system's architecture Physics 9 Expired
US9258564B2 Visual search system architectures based on compressed or compact feature descriptors Physics 6 Active
US9569695B2 Adaptive search window control for visual search Physics 6 Active
US7617494B2 Process for running programs with selectable instruction length processors and corresponding processor system Physics 6 Expired

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