Edouard Francois
154Patents
8h-index
67Co-inventors
83Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 30, 1999 → Apr 17, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7702168B2 | Motion estimation or P-type images using direct mode prediction | Electricity | 65 | Active |
| US6473462B1 | Process for estimating a dominant motion between two frames | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US8345762B2 | Method for deriving coding information for high resolution pictures from low resolution pictures and coding and decoding devices implementing said method | Electricity | 30 | Active |
| US11190765B2 | Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using pattern-based block filtering | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US7155657B2 | Device and method for inserting error correcting codes and for reconstructing data streams, and corresponding products | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US10219007B2 | Method and device for signaling in a bitstream a picture/video format of an LDR picture and a picture/video format of a decoded HDR picture obtained from said LDR picture and an illumination picture | Electricity | 12 | Active |
| US8611412B2 | Method and apparatus for constructing reference picture lists for scalable video | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US8520960B2 | Method for decoding a stream of coded data representative of a sequence of images and method for coding a sequence of images | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US7092443B2 | Process and device for video coding using the MPEG4 standard | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US9426464B2 | Method for coding and decoding a block of pixels from a motion model | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US8090017B2 | Method and apparatus for coding interlaced video data | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US7899119B2 | Method and device for coding a sequence of source images | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US12010309B2 | Lossless mode for versatile video coding | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US10356444B2 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high dynamic range (HDR) videos | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US10687056B2 | Deriving reference mode values and encoding and decoding information representing prediction modes | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7801218B2 | Method or device for coding a sequence of source pictures | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7983339B2 | Method for coding an image sequence | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7864863B2 | Method for encoding and/or decoding groups of images | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7853076B2 | Device and method for creating a saliency map of an image | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8155192B2 | Scalable encoding and decoding of interlaced digital video data | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US8804833B2 | Method for determining a filter for interpolating one or more pixels of a frame | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US9159141B2 | Method for reconstructing a current block of an image and corresponding encoding method, corresponding devices as well as storage medium carrying an images encoded in a bit stream | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US11182882B2 | Method and device for tone-mapping a picture by using a parametric tone-adjustment function | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7280600B2 | Blockwise coding process, of MPEG type, in which a resolution is assigned to each block | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US10298937B2 | Method, device, computer program, and information storage means for encoding or decoding a video sequence | Electricity | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.