Stephen N. Levine
26Patents
19h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 17, 1978 → Jan 20, 1998
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4434323A | Scrambler key code synchronizer | Electricity | 184 | Expired |
| US4803726A | Bit synchronization method for a digital radio telephone system | Electricity | 144 | Expired |
| US5619341A | Method and apparatus for preventing overflow and underflow of an encoder buffer in a video compression system | Electricity | 111 | Expired |
| US5537155A | Method for estimating motion in a video sequence | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US5276911A | Contention reducing technique for a radio frequency communication system | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US4573017A | Unitary phase and frequency adjust network for a multiple frequency digital phase locked loop | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US5121414A | Carrier frequency offset equalization | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US5778191A | Method and device for error control of a macroblock-based video compression technique | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US4649543A | Synchronization sequence decoder for a digital radiotelephone system | Electricity | 50 | Expired |
| US5724369A | Method and device for concealment and containment of errors in a macroblock-based video codec | Electricity | 47 | Expired |
| US4876740A | Radiotelephone system employing digitized speech/data signalling | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US4984290A | Method of controlling communications in a cellular radiotelephone system | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5677969A | Method, rate controller, and system for preventing overflow and underflow of a decoder buffer in a video compression system | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US4574243A | Multiple frequency digital phase locked loop | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US5506686A | Method and device for determining bit allocation in a video compression system | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5764921A | Method, device and microprocessor for selectively compressing video frames of a motion compensated prediction-based video codec | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5486863A | Method for determining whether to intra code a video block | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6498809B1 | Video bitstream error resilient transcoder, method, video-phone, video-communicator and device | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US5170485A | Hand-off algorithm for elongated radiotelephone cells | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US4190802A | Digital demodulator for phase shift keyed signals | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US4617520A | Digital lock detector for a phase-locked loop | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US4668917A | Phase comparator for use with a digital phase locked loop or other phase sensitive device | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5187811A | Error detection | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US5646867A | Method and system for improved motion compensation | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US5497382A | Extended error correction of a transmitted data message | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.