Michael Patrick Vachon
12Patents
6h-index
15Co-inventors
59Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 6, 1989 → Mar 28, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6356589B1 | Sharing reference data between multiple encoders parallel encoding a sequence of video frames | Electricity | 129 | Expired |
| US6301671A | Apparatus and method for power reduction control in a video encoder device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| US5060136A | Four-way associative cache with DLAT and separately addressable arrays used for updating certain bits without reading them out first | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6188730A | Highly programmable chrominance filter for 4:2:2 to 4:2:0 conversion during MPEG2 video encoding | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US6229853A | Method and apparatus to accommodate partial picture input to an MPEG-compliant encoder | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6040875A | Method to compensate for a fade in a digital video input sequence | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US5694346A | Integrated circuit including fully testable small scale read only memory constructed of level sensitive scan device shift register latches | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6788227B2 | Apparatus for integrated cascade encoding | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US5790199A | Method and apparatus to accommodate partial picture input to an MPEG-compliant encoder | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6611159B1 | Apparatus and method for synchronizing multiple circuits clocked at a divided phase locked loop frequency | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6507370B1 | Highly adjustable video composite sync separator and variable gain pixel clock frequency locking apparatus and method | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6127851A | Circuit and method for differentiating multiple modules | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.