Inventor · King City, ON, CA

Keith Lucas

22Patents
17h-index
10Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 24, 1983 → Dec 7, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5400401A System and method for transmitting a plurality of digital services Electricity 472 Expired
US4890321A Communications format for a subscription television system permitting transmission of individual text messages to subscribers Electricity 429 Expired
US4829569A Communication of individual messages to subscribers in a subscription television system Electricity 418 Expired
US4885775A Information display scheme for subscribers of a subscription television system Electricity 298 Expired
US4866770A Method and apparatus for communication of video, audio, teletext, and data to groups of decoders in a communication system Electricity 162 Expired
US4642688A Method and apparatus for creating encrypted and decrypted television signals Electricity 145 Expired
US4890319A Method for controlling copying of protected information transmitted over a communications link Electricity 109 Expired
US5237413A Motion filter for digital television system Electricity 66 Expired
US4719642A Error detection and concealment using predicted signal values Physics 54 Expired
US5231485A Method and apparatus for transforming between fixed-rate vector quantized data and variable rate vector quantized data Electricity 52 Expired
US5553141A Encryption and decryption (scrambling and unscrambling) of video signals Electricity 33 Expired
US6546113B1 Method and apparatus for video watermarking Physics 28 Expired
US4652903A Frequency generation for multiplexed analog component color television encoding and decoding Electricity 27 Expired
US5361098A Methods and apparatus for generating a picture-in-picture digital television frame by inserting a mean-only frame into a full-size frame Electricity 23 Expired
US5204899A Vector quantization method employing mirrored input vectors to search codebook Electricity 20 Expired
US4989091A Scan converter for a high definition television system Electricity 19 Expired
US5247348A Method for selecting reproduction quality of transmitted vector quantized data Electricity 17 Expired
US4866519A Method and apparatus for increasing the vertical definition of a transmitted television signal Electricity 15 Expired
US5235418A Method and apparatus for low frequency removal in vector quantization Electricity 14 Expired
US5053859A High definition B-MAC television signal transmission system Electricity 4 Expired
US4965661A Method and apparatus for increasing the definiton of an NTSC video signal using an augmentation channel Electricity 3 Expired
US9199170B2 Pass-structured game platform Human Necessities 0 Active

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