Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

James David Johnston

102Patents
32h-index
94Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 20, 1977 → Nov 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7630501B2 System and method for calibration of an acoustic system Electricity 1,479 Active
US5285498A Method and apparatus for coding audio signals based on perceptual model Electricity 275 Expired
US4741038A Sound location arrangement Electricity 264 Expired
US8073125B2 Spatial audio conferencing Electricity 219 Active
US5040217A Perceptual coding of audio signals Electricity 175 Expired
US5627938A Rate loop processor for perceptual encoder/decoder Electricity 147 Expired
US6950990B2 Navigation tool for accessing workspaces and modules in a graphical user interface Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 135 Expired
US5136377A Adaptive non-linear quantizer Electricity 119 Expired
US5341457A Perceptual coding of audio signals Physics 97 Expired
US6771777B1 Process for coding and decoding stereophonic spectral values Electricity 95 Expired
USRE39080E1 Rate loop processor for perceptual encoder/decoder General 95 Expired
US5535300A Perceptual coding of audio signals using entropy coding and/or multiple power spectra Physics 83 Expired
US5732189A Audio signal coding with a signal adaptive filterbank Electricity 75 Expired
US5309526A Image processing system Electricity 73 Expired
US6996778B2 User interface for managing multiple network resources Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Expired
US5481614A Method and apparatus for coding audio signals based on perceptual model Electricity 68 Expired
US5592584A Method and apparatus for two-component signal compression Physics 56 Expired
US5517581A Perceptually-adapted image coding system Electricity 53 Expired
US5852806A Switched filterbank for use in audio signal coding Physics 52 Expired
US5227788A Method and apparatus for two-component signal compression Physics 50 Expired
US5128756A High definition television coding arrangement with graceful degradation Electricity 48 Expired
US4449190A Silence editing speech processor Electricity 46 Expired
US5134475A Adaptive leak HDTV encoder Electricity 42 Expired
US9530421B2 Encoding and reproduction of three dimensional audio soundtracks Electricity 40 Active
US7131007B1 System and method of retrieving a watermark within a signal Physics 37 Expired

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