Inventor · Los Gatos, CA, US

Richard Webb

15Patents
9h-index
14Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 23, 1998 → Nov 21, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7386049B2 Predictive interpolation of a video signal Electricity 63 Expired
US7397858B2 Maintaining a plurality of codebooks related to a video signal Electricity 45 Expired
US6693959B1 Method and apparatus for indexing and locating key frames in streaming and variable-frame-length data Electricity 23 Expired
US7656950B2 Video interpolation coding Electricity 19 Expired
US6714720B1 Method and apparatus for storing multi-media data Electricity 19 Expired
US8023561B1 Predictive interpolation of a video signal Electricity 18 Active
US6188437A Deinterlacing technique Electricity 10 Expired
US6847408B1 Method and apparatus for reducing noise in an image sequence Electricity 9 Expired
US7715477B2 Classifying image areas of a video signal Electricity 9 Active
US6618508B1 Motion compensation device Electricity 8 Expired
US6687295B1 Method and apparatus for motion estimation for encoding sequential frames Electricity 8 Expired
US6594312B1 Method and apparatus for motion estimation quantization dithering Electricity 3 Expired
US8687693B2 Temporal image prediction Electricity 2 Active
US6400895B1 Method for optimizing MPEG-2 video playback consistency Electricity 2 Expired
US6766427B1 Method and apparatus for loading data from memory to a cache Physics 0 Expired

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