Inventor · Johnson City, NY, US

Michael Patrick Vachon

12Patents
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15Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 6, 1989 → Mar 28, 2002

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.