Inventor · Ossining, NY, US

Peter Westerink

56Patents
17h-index
61Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 19, 1990 → Jun 13, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5144423A HDTV encoder with forward estimation and constant rate motion vectors Electricity 134 Expired
US5136377A Adaptive non-linear quantizer Electricity 119 Expired
US5134477A HDTV receiver Electricity 116 Expired
US5586200A Segmentation based image compression system Physics 111 Expired
US5128756A High definition television coding arrangement with graceful degradation Electricity 48 Expired
US5420971A Image edge finder which operates over multiple picture element ranges Physics 47 Expired
US6192154A Two-pass encoding method of digital motion video sequences for constant-or variable bit rate Electricity 47 Expired
US5134475A Adaptive leak HDTV encoder Electricity 42 Expired
US5777677A Approximate MPEG decoder with compressed reference frames Electricity 37 Expired
US5063444A High definition television arrangement with signal selections adapted to the available transmission capacity Electricity 23 Expired
US5040062A Television signal arrangement where selected signals are encoded digitally Electricity 23 Expired
US9547534B2 Autoscaling applications in shared cloud resources Physics 22 Active
US7249264B2 Secure IP based streaming in a format independent manner Electricity 21 Expired
US9471225B2 Optimizing memory usage across multiple garbage collected computer environments Physics 21 Active
US9146862B2 Optimizing memory usage across multiple garbage collected computer environments Physics 20 Active
US5353056A System and method for modifying aberration and registration of images Electricity 17 Expired
US5243419A Soft coding for HDTV Electricity 17 Expired
US7313236B2 Methods and apparatus for secure and adaptive delivery of multimedia content Electricity 16 Expired
US5083206A High definition television arrangement including noise immunity means Electricity 15 Expired
US5493334A Automatic digital black shading for cameras Electricity 13 Expired
US5577134A Method and apparatus for encoding a segmented image without loss of information Physics 12 Expired
US7657651B2 Resource-efficient media streaming to heterogeneous clients Electricity 8 Active
US6976208B1 Progressive adaptive time stamp resolution in multimedia authoring Electricity 8 Expired
US7216288B2 Dynamic scene description emulation for playback of audio/visual streams on a scene description based playback system Electricity 8 Expired
US7526565B2 Multiple description hinting and switching for adaptive media services Electricity 7 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.