Nicholas Ian Saunders
68Patents
13h-index
23Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 12, 1991 → Jan 20, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.