Inventor · Waterloo, ON, CA

Lowell L. Winger

86Patents
21h-index
18Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 4, 2001 → Dec 15, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6959044B1 Dynamic GOP system and method for digital video encoding Electricity 78 Expired
US7170938B1 Rate control method for video transcoding Electricity 74 Expired
US7469070B2 Method for selection of contexts for arithmetic coding of reference picture and motion vector residual bitstream syntax elements Electricity 64 Active
US7327786B2 Method for improving rate-distortion performance of a video compression system through parallel coefficient cancellation in the transform Electricity 62 Expired
US7362376B2 Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion Electricity 60 Expired
US7324595B2 Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of non-reference frame encoding using selective reconstruction Electricity 60 Expired
US7020200B2 System and method for direct motion vector prediction in bi-predictive video frames and fields Electricity 58 Expired
US7620103B2 Programmable quantization dead zone and threshold for standard-based H.264 and/or VC1 video encoding Electricity 56 Active
US7362804B2 Graphical symbols for H.264 bitstream syntax elements Electricity 52 Expired
US7310371B2 Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction Electricity 47 Expired
US7231587B2 Embedded picture PSNR/CRC data in compressed video bitstream Electricity 46 Expired
US7366236B1 Source adaptive system and method for 2D iDCT Electricity 39 Expired
US6968092B1 System and method for reduced codebook vector quantization Physics 37 Expired
US7346111B2 Co-located motion vector storage Electricity 36 Expired
US8036271B2 Method and apparatus for determining a second picture for temporal direct-mode block prediction Electricity 35 Active
US7345708B2 Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion Electricity 34 Expired
US7595743B1 System and method for reducing storage requirements for content adaptive binary arithmetic coding Electricity 33 Active
US8155194B2 Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to H.264 video transcoding Electricity 30 Active
US7551232B2 Noise adaptive 3D composite noise reduction Electricity 29 Active
US6917310B2 Video decoder and encoder transcoder to and from re-orderable format Electricity 28 Expired
US7233622B2 Reduced complexity efficient binarization method and/or circuit for motion vector residuals Electricity 22 Expired
US7212573B2 Method and/or apparatus for determining minimum positive reference indices for a direct prediction mode Electricity 21 Expired
US7373009B2 Method and apparatus for efficient transmission and decoding of quantization matrices Electricity 20 Active
US7415069B2 Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter sets Electricity 20 Expired
US7362809B2 Computational reduction in motion estimation based on lower bound of cost function Electricity 19 Expired

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