Inventor · Princeton, NJ, US

Joan Llach

54Patents
6h-index
28Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 7, 2004 → Jan 24, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7680356B2 Technique for bit-accurate comfort noise addition Physics 22 Active
US9214030B2 Method and apparatus for processing video sequences Physics 19 Active
US9602814B2 Methods and apparatus for sampling-based super resolution video encoding and decoding Electricity 12 Active
US8391547B2 Method and apparatus for detecting objects of interest in soccer video by color Physics 11 Active
US8204334B2 Adaptive pixel-based filtering Physics 9 Active
US9087382B2 Zone-based tone mapping Physics 7 Active
US8346009B2 Automatic exposure estimation for HDR images based on image statistics Physics 5 Active
US7889939B2 Technique for simulating film grain using frequency filtering Physics 5 Active
US8611728B2 Video matting based on foreground-background constraint propagation Physics 5 Active
US9118912B2 Object-aware video encoding strategies Electricity 5 Active
US8023567B2 Film grain simulation technique for use in media playback devices Physics 5 Active
US8159606B2 Method and apparatus for reversible, polynomial based image scaling Physics 5 Active
US9554056B2 Method of and device for encoding an HDR image, method of and device for reconstructing an HDR image and non-transitory storage medium Electricity 4 Active
US7738721B2 Method and apparatus for modeling film grain patterns in the frequency domain Physics 4 Expired
US7982743B2 Method and apparatus for reading film grain patterns in a raster order in film grain simulation Physics 4 Active
US8472526B2 Low-complexity film grain simulation technique Physics 4 Active
US8447127B2 Film grain simulation method Physics 3 Active
US8467626B2 Automatic parameter estimation for adaptive pixel-based filtering Physics 3 Active
US8345975B2 Automatic exposure estimation for HDR images based on image statistics Physics 3 Active
US9813707B2 Data pruning for video compression using example-based super-resolution Electricity 3 Active
US9420291B2 Methods and apparatus for reducing vector quantization error through patch shifting Electricity 2 Active
US9336578B2 Interactive tone mapping for high dynamic range video Physics 2 Active
US8238613B2 Technique for bit-accurate film grain simulation Physics 2 Active
US9098916B2 Bit-accurate film grain simulation method based on pre-computed transformed coefficients Physics 2 Active
US7852409B2 Bit-accurate seed initialization for pseudo-random number generators used in a video system Electricity 2 Active

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