Robert Norman Hurst, Jr.
52Patents
21h-index
29Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 14, 1975 → Dec 16, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6038000A | Information stream syntax for indicating the presence of a splice point | Electricity | 178 | Expired |
| US6137834A | Method and apparatus for splicing compressed information streams | Electricity | 164 | Expired |
| US6909743B1 | Method for generating and processing transition streams | Electricity | 153 | Expired |
| US6985188B1 | Video decoding and channel acquisition system | Electricity | 97 | Expired |
| US6141358A | Method and apparatus for aligning sub-stream splice points in an information stream | Electricity | 96 | Expired |
| US5317398A | Video/film-mode (3:2 pulldown) detector using patterns of two-field differences | Electricity | 75 | Expired |
| US6459811B1 | Bursty data transmission of compressed video data | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US6785289B1 | Method and apparatus for aligning sub-stream splice points in an information stream | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US5731837A | Quantization circuitry as for video signal compression systems | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US6188728A | Block motion video coding and decoding | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US4134128A | Television picture size altering apparatus | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US6373530B1 | Logo insertion based on constrained encoding | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6115071A | Video signal compression apparatus using noise reduction | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US6285710A | Noise estimation and reduction apparatus for video signal processing | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US6763067B2 | Rate control for bitstream re-encoding | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US6785338B1 | Constraining video production based on compression-related information | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5031030A | Video signal encoded with additional detail information | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US4533938A | Color modifier for composite video signals | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US6034731A | MPEG frame processing method and apparatus | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US4654714A | Pixel addressing system | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US4523227A | System for synchronizing a video signal having a first frame rate to a second frame rate | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6580829B1 | Detecting and coding flash frames in video data | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US4021852A | Signal defect compensation | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4639773A | Apparatus for detecting motion in a video image by comparison of a video line value with an interpolated value | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US7254175B2 | Frame-accurate seamless splicing of information streams | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.