Inventor · Pleasanton, CA, US

Hung-Ju Lee

40Patents
14h-index
18Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 31, 1997 → Feb 5, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6269192A Apparatus and method for multiscale zerotree entropy encoding Electricity 119 Expired
US7697783B2 Coding device, coding method, decoding device, decoding method, and programs of same Electricity 70 Expired
US6236758A Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees by backward predictive coding of wavelet transformed coefficients Electricity 68 Expired
US6023296A Apparatus and method for object based rate control in a coding system Electricity 66 Expired
US6351491B1 Apparatus and method for optimizing the rate control for multiscale entropy encoding Electricity 54 Expired
US6157746A Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees generated by a wavelet-based coding method Electricity 53 Expired
US7697608B2 Scalable MPEG video/macro block rate control Electricity 28 Active
US6298163A Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees generated by a wavelet-based coding method using band dependent tables Electricity 26 Expired
US6700935B2 Stream based bitrate transcoder for MPEG coded video Electricity 26 Expired
US6690833B1 Apparatus and method for macroblock based rate control in a coding system Electricity 24 Expired
US6700932B2 MPEG video editing-cut and paste Electricity 19 Expired
US7145946B2 MPEG video drift reduction Electricity 18 Expired
US8711933B2 Random access point (RAP) formation using intra refreshing technique in video coding Electricity 15 Active
US7372903B1 Apparatus and method for object based rate control in a coding system Electricity 15 Expired
US7426296B2 Human skin tone detection in YCbCr space Physics 14 Active
US8879623B2 Picture-level rate control for video encoding a scene-change I picture Electricity 12 Active
US8913664B2 Three-dimensional motion mapping for cloud gaming Electricity 9 Active
US8345750B2 Scene change detection Electricity 9 Active
US6459814B1 Method and apparatus for generic scalable shape coding by deriving shape information for chrominance components from luminance component Electricity 9 Expired
US8737485B2 Video coding mode selection system Electricity 8 Active
US8027384B2 Scalable MPEG video/macro block rate control Electricity 7 Active
US9386317B2 Adaptive picture section encoding mode decision control Electricity 7 Active
US8218627B2 Scalable MPEG video/macro block rate control Electricity 7 Active
US11025918B2 Foveated video link for VR, low latency wireless HMD video streaming with gaze tracking Physics 3 Active
US10349069B2 Software hardware hybrid video encoder Electricity 2 Active

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