Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Michael L. Lightstone

13Patents
4h-index
7Co-inventors
45Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 26, 1999 → Nov 30, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7584475B1 Managing a video encoder to facilitate loading and executing another program Electricity 35 Active
US6693959B1 Method and apparatus for indexing and locating key frames in streaming and variable-frame-length data Electricity 23 Expired
US6714720B1 Method and apparatus for storing multi-media data Electricity 19 Expired
US7535959B2 Apparatus, system, and method for video encoder rate control Electricity 10 Expired
US7277581B1 Method for video format detection Electricity 4 Expired
US6400895B1 Method for optimizing MPEG-2 video playback consistency Electricity 2 Expired
US7800699B2 3:2 Pulldown detection Electricity 1 Active
US8094239B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active
US8035750B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active
US8004613B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active
US7894002B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active
US7995150B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active
US8068181B1 3:2 pulldown detection Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.