Inventor · Ronnenberg, DE

Dirk Adolph

39Patents
11h-index
22Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 21, 1995 → Jul 1, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7359917B2 Method and apparatus for automatic detection of data types for data type dependent processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 244 Expired
US5959539A Apparatus for the remote control of electronic devices with key allocation Electricity 130 Expired
US6081295A Method and apparatus for transcoding bit streams with video data Electricity 82 Expired
US5825430A Method, encoder and decoder for the transmission of digital signals which are hierarchically structured into a plurality of parts Electricity 40 Expired
US6758540B1 Method and apparatus for providing OSD data for OSD display in a video signal having an enclosed format Electricity 33 Expired
US7653882B2 Method for representing animated menu buttons Electricity 29 Expired
US6625388B2 Method and device for recording sub-titles Electricity 27 Expired
US5838265A Method, encoder and decoder for resynchronization to a data stream which contains errors Electricity 18 Expired
US7852411B2 Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles Electricity 12 Active
US7130621B2 Method for creating a peer-to-peer home network using common group label Electricity 11 Expired
US8381254B2 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Physics 11 Active
US8028096B2 Method for using the hand-held device in a multimedia home network Electricity 9 Expired
US6456656B1 Method and apparatus for coding and for decoding a picture sequence Electricity 7 Expired
US8387091B2 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Physics 7 Expired
US6578049B1 Replay appliance for recording media containing information blocks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6397310B1 Method and apparatus for controlling write access to storage means for a digital data processing circuit Physics 5 Expired
US7280741B2 Method and apparatus for controlling the insertion of stuffing data into a bitstream to be recorded Physics 4 Expired
US7317866B1 Reproducing a digital datastream containing program information for trick mode display Electricity 4 Expired
US5920675A Fast search operation in a film playback device Electricity 3 Expired
US7565064B2 Method and device for updating a local copy of metadata Physics 3 Expired
US7020889B1 Method for calling up information about current radio and television programmes Electricity 2 Expired
US7395318B2 Method for communication between nodes in peer-to peer networks using common group label Electricity 2 Expired
US7653284B2 Method and apparatus for editing a data stream Physics 1 Active
US9183886B2 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Physics 1 Active
US7634174B2 Method data recorder for recording data packet timestamps Electricity 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.