Inventor · Indianapolis, IN, US

Harold Blatter

28Patents
14h-index
19Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 27, 1979 → Oct 9, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5754651A Processing and storage of digital data and program specific information Electricity 279 Expired
US4566034A Remote control transmitter arrangement for one or more television devices Electricity 274 Expired
US6016348A Decoding system and data format for processing and storing encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video data Electricity 215 Expired
US5933500A Adaptive decoding system for processing encrypted and non-encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video data Physics 170 Expired
US5838873A Packetized data formats for digital data storage media Electricity 97 Expired
US5878135A Decoding system for processing encrypted broadcast, cable or satellite video data Electricity 90 Expired
US5148275A Second video program Electricity 54 Expired
US5534942A On screen display arrangement for digital video signal processing system Electricity 53 Expired
US5844478A Program specific information formation for digital data processing Physics 36 Expired
US4667243A Television receiver for direct broadcast satellite signals Electricity 31 Expired
US6310922A Method and apparatus for generating variable rate synchronization signals Electricity 24 Expired
US5844595A Decoding of digital data including program specific information Electricity 24 Expired
US4663659A Video signal scrambling system employing full line reversal and double burst coding Electricity 17 Expired
US5841987A Simple bus and interface system for consumer digital equipment Electricity 15 Expired
US5066868A Apparatus for generating phase shifted clock signals Electricity 14 Expired
US4241450A Automatic turn-off apparatus for a radio or television receiver Electricity 13 Expired
US5948085A Bus voltage detection and protection Physics 11 Expired
US6177961A Television system with display of VCR mode Electricity 10 Expired
US6236694A Bus and interface system for consumer digital equipment Electricity 10 Expired
US4544923A Microprocessor self-turn-off arrangement for a consumer instrument Electricity 10 Expired
US6584275B1 Control of consumer recording equipment Electricity 9 Expired
US7239793B2 On-screen display insertion Electricity 5 Expired
US6026094A Digital data bus system including arbitration Physics 3 Expired
US5673378A Color coding method for expanding palette by including colors derived by averaging numeric codes of actual palette colors Physics 3 Expired
US7321717B1 Upgradable on-screen display system Electricity 2 Expired

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