Motoki Kato
223Patents
32h-index
64Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 15, 1993 → Nov 11, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5559557A | Motion video coding with adaptive precision for DC component coefficient quantization and variable length coding | Electricity | 185 | Expired |
| US7236687B2 | Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium | Electricity | 150 | Expired |
| US5666461A | High efficiency encoding and decoding of picture signals and recording medium containing same | Electricity | 140 | Expired |
| US6040863A | Method of coding and decoding motion vector and apparatus therefor, and method of coding and decoding picture signal and apparatus therefor | Electricity | 122 | Expired |
| US5428396A | Variable length coding/decoding method for motion vectors | Electricity | 119 | Expired |
| US6324216A | Video coding selectable between intra-frame prediction/field-based orthogonal transformation and inter-frame prediction/frame-based orthogonal transformation | Electricity | 111 | Expired |
| US5946042A | Macroblock coding including difference between motion vectors | Electricity | 104 | Expired |
| US5543847A | Picture coding and decoding method for random accessing | Electricity | 92 | Expired |
| US6795499B1 | Encoding apparatus and method, and multiplexing apparatus and method | Electricity | 90 | Expired |
| US6434275B1 | Block distortion reduction method and device and encoding method and device | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US6057893A | Picture encoding method, picture encoding apparatus, picture transmitting method and picture recording medium | Electricity | 70 | Expired |
| US6999674B1 | Recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as recording medium | Electricity | 67 | Expired |
| US6188700A | Method and apparatus for encoding MPEG signals using variable rate encoding and dynamically varying transmission buffers | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US7394851B2 | Encoding apparatus and method, and multiplexing apparatus and method | Electricity | 60 | Active |
| US6236806A | Field detection apparatus and method, image coding apparatus and method, recording medium, recording method and transmission method | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US7661000B2 | Information processing device, information recording medium and information processing method, and computer program | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US5719986A | Video signal encoding method | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US7106946B1 | Transport stream processing device, and associated methodology of generating and aligning source data packets in a physical data structure | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6271774A | Picture data processor, picture data decoder and picture data encoder, and methods thereof | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US7477833B2 | Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recorded medium specifying particular picture characteristics | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6415055B1 | Moving image encoding method and apparatus, and moving image decoding method and apparatus | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US6151360A | Method for encoding video signal using statistical information | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US5771357A | Encoding/decoding fields of predetermined field polarity apparatus and method | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US6226327A | Video coding method and apparatus which select between frame-based and field-based predictive modes | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US6167087A | Picture signal encoding method and apparatus and signal recording medium | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.