Inventor · Camas, WA, US

Shawmin Lei

57Patents
17h-index
20Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 7, 1996 → Feb 22, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7450641B2 Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength Electricity 95 Expired
US7650036B2 System and method for three-dimensional video coding Electricity 66 Active
US6931063B2 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Electricity 44 Expired
US6707952B1 Method for removing ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression Physics 39 Expired
US7035473B1 Distortion-adaptive visual frequency weighting Electricity 39 Expired
US6792129B1 Digital watermarking in a perceptually uniform domain Physics 35 Expired
US6658162B1 Image coding method using visual optimization Physics 34 Expired
US7352812B2 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Electricity 29 Expired
US6130911A Method and apparatus for compressing reference frames in an interframe video codec Electricity 29 Expired
US7613240B2 Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength Electricity 26 Expired
US7006255B2 Adaptive image filtering based on a distance transform Physics 25 Expired
US8000390B2 Methods and systems for efficient prediction-mode selection Electricity 23 Active
USRE43628E1 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding General 22 Active
US5956458A System and method for determining representative frames of video captured by a video camera Physics 21 Expired
US7440501B2 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Electricity 19 Expired
USRE44497E1 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding General 19 Active
US7787542B2 Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength Electricity 18 Active
US8040957B2 Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength Electricity 16 Active
US7907667B2 Adaptive filtering based upon boundary strength Electricity 14 Active
US7242717B2 Wavelet domain motion compensation system Electricity 12 Expired
US7684639B2 Methods and systems for automatic digital image enhancement Physics 11 Active
US8194997B2 Methods and systems for tone mapping messaging Electricity 10 Active
US6807312B2 Robust codebooks for vector quantization Physics 10 Expired
US7050500B2 Method and apparatus for motion vector coding with global motion parameters Electricity 8 Expired
US8036270B2 Intra-frame flicker reduction in video coding Electricity 7 Active

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