Minoru Etoh
75Patents
21h-index
43Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 29, 1988 → Nov 17, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6041145A | Device and method for smoothing picture signal, device and method for encoding picture and device and method for decoding picture | Electricity | 184 | Expired |
| US6081551A | Image coding and decoding apparatus and methods thereof | Electricity | 149 | Expired |
| US4868654A | Sub-nyquist sampling encoder and decoder of a video system | Electricity | 123 | Expired |
| US7269601B2 | Information delivery system, information delivery method, information delivery server, content delivery server and client terminal | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 101 | Expired |
| US6674477B1 | Method and apparatus for processing a data series including processing priority data | Electricity | 92 | Expired |
| US5768438A | Image encoding/decoding device | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US7643559B2 | Coding method, decoding method, coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, image processing system, coding program, and decoding program | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US7200633B2 | Information delivery system and information delivery method | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US5519789A | Image clustering apparatus | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US7190289B2 | Signal encoding method, signal decoding method, signal encoding apparatus, signal decoding apparatus, signal encoding program, and signal decoding program | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US6266158A | Image encoding/decoding device and method | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US7436454B2 | Method and apparatus for transmitting encoded information based upon piority data in the encoded information | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US7747094B2 | Image encoder, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US6798837B1 | Video coding method and video coding apparatus | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US7298303B2 | Signal encoding method, signal decoding method, signal encoding apparatus, signal decoding apparatus, signal encoding program, and signal decoding program | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6040864A | Motion vector detector and video coder | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6546120B1 | Correspondence-between-images detection method and system | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US6625211B1 | Method and apparatus for transforming moving picture coding system | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US5859932A | Vector quantization coding apparatus and decoding apparatus | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US7596279B2 | Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding program, and image decoding program | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6952712B2 | Method and apparatus for distributing content data over a network | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US7292731B2 | Image encoder, image decoder, image encoding method, and image decoding method | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| USRE37668E1 | Image encoding/decoding device | General | 21 | Expired |
| US7245659B2 | Image encoding method and apparatus, image decoding method and apparatus, and image processing system | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5929913A | Motion vector detector and video coder | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.