Martin William Sotheran
43Patents
21h-index
15Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 24, 1993 → Oct 10, 2001
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5956519A | Picture end token in a system comprising a plurality of pipeline stages | Electricity | 240 | Expired |
| US5603012A | Start code detector | Electricity | 183 | Expired |
| US6799246B1 | Memory interface for reading/writing data from/to a memory | Electricity | 178 | Expired |
| US5768629A | Token-based adaptive video processing arrangement | Electricity | 87 | Expired |
| US7095783B1 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start codes and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 85 | Expired |
| US6330666A | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start codes and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US7711938B2 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including start code detection and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 67 | Active |
| US5835792A | Token-based adaptive video processing arrangement | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US7149811B2 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6047112A | Technique for initiating processing of a data stream of encoded video information | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6217234A | Apparatus and method for processing data with an arithmetic unit | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US6263422A | Pipeline processing machine with interactive stages operable in response to tokens and system and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US5798719A | Parallel Huffman decoder | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5805914A | Data pipeline system and data encoding method | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6435737B1 | Data pipeline system and data encoding method | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US7230986B2 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a video formatter and methods relating thereto | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US5835740A | Data pipeline system and data encoding method | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US5828907A | Token-based adaptive video processing arrangement | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US5963154A | Technique for decoding variable and fixed length codes | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US6067417A | Picture start token | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US5590067A | Method and arrangement for transformation of signals from a frequency to a time domain | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6079009A | Coding standard token in a system compromising a plurality of pipeline stages | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US5829007A | Technique for implementing a swing buffer in a memory array | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US5596517A | Method and arrangement for transformation of signals from a frequency to a time domain | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US5907692A | Data pipeline system and data encoding method | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.