Inventor · Basingstoke, GB

Nicholas Ian Saunders

68Patents
13h-index
23Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 12, 1991 → Jan 20, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6529555B1 Signal processor Electricity 37 Expired
US5208667A Motion compensated video standards converter and method of deriving motion vectors Electricity 37 Expired
US6373895B1 Video data compression with trial encoder Electricity 35 Expired
US6167085A Image data compression Electricity 30 Expired
US6351226B1 Block-by-block data compression with quantization control Electricity 26 Expired
US5347312A Motion compensated video signal processing Electricity 24 Expired
US5768431A Video data compression Electricity 22 Expired
US6642967B1 Video data formatting and storage employing data allocation to control transcoding to intermediate video signal Physics 20 Expired
US6567128B1 Video signal processing in which first video information and additional video information are combined to produce frames that are encoded with different picture qualities for edge and non-edge regions Electricity 20 Expired
US5363146A Motion compensated image processing Electricity 19 Expired
US7227900B2 Differential encoding Electricity 19 Expired
US6741747B1 Data compression Electricity 17 Expired
US6263114A Apparatus and method for compressing image data by determining a quantization factor which provides more efficient use of an available bit rate Electricity 16 Expired
US7352811B2 Data encoding apparatus and method Electricity 13 Expired
US6760377B1 Signal processing Electricity 12 Expired
US6847681B2 Data processing system and method of data processing Electricity 12 Expired
US6983015B1 Signal processor Physics 12 Expired
US5987183A Image activity data compression and decompression method and apparatus Physics 12 Expired
US6608866B1 Digital video processing Electricity 11 Expired
US5995149A Image data compression Electricity 11 Expired
US9826231B2 Intra prediction mode derivation for chrominance values Electricity 10 Active
US9674531B2 Data encoding and decoding Electricity 9 Active
US9948929B2 Quantization for different color sampling schemes Electricity 8 Active
US10097834B2 Selection of the maximum dynamic range of transformed data and the data precision of transform matrices according to the bit depth of input data Electricity 5 Active
US6812865B2 Data compression Electricity 5 Expired

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