Inventor · Stinchcombe, GB

Martin William Sotheran

43Patents
21h-index
15Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 24, 1993 → Oct 10, 2001

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.