Inventor · Kitchener, ON, CA

Michael Gallant

29Patents
9h-index
24Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 13, 2001 → Sep 2, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9032427B2 System for monitoring a video network and methods for use therewith Electricity 97 Active
US7170938B1 Rate control method for video transcoding Electricity 74 Expired
US7324595B2 Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of non-reference frame encoding using selective reconstruction Electricity 60 Expired
US7310371B2 Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction Electricity 47 Expired
US9191284B2 Methods and apparatus for providing a media stream quality signal Electricity 25 Active
US7964823B2 Wall oven and corresponding method Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 15 Active
US7702020B2 Multi-standard variable block size motion estimation processor Electricity 15 Active
US8149915B1 Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimation Electricity 12 Active
US9037743B2 Methods and apparatus for providing a presentation quality signal Electricity 11 Active
US9395088B2 Oven appliance and a method for manufacturing a cooking chamber of an oven appliance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US7453940B2 High quality, low memory bandwidth motion estimation processor Electricity 7 Expired
US9178633B2 Delivery quality of experience (QoE) in a computer network Electricity 6 Active
US7324596B2 Low complexity block size decision for variable block size motion estimation Electricity 5 Expired
US7440500B2 Supporting motion vectors outside picture boundaries in motion estimation process Physics 5 Expired
US9118738B2 Systems and methods for controlling access to a media stream Electricity 5 Active
US7933331B2 High quality, low memory bandwidth motion estimation processor Electricity 4 Active
US8437401B2 Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimation Electricity 4 Active
US7342964B2 Multi-standard variable block size motion estimation processor Electricity 4 Expired
US7072399B2 Motion estimation method and system for MPEG video streams Electricity 4 Expired
US9621607B2 Systems and languages for media policy decision and control and methods for use therewith Electricity 3 Active
US9042449B2 Systems and methods for dynamic transcoding of indexed media file formats Electricity 3 Active
US9749382B2 Systems for media policy decision and control and methods for use therewith Electricity 2 Active
US7026961B2 Real time binary arithmetic encoding Electricity 2 Expired
US8009734B2 Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction Electricity 1 Active
US8629376B2 Multimount oven rack Human Necessities 1 Active

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