Inventor · Itasca, IL, US

Stephen N. Levine

26Patents
19h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 17, 1978 → Jan 20, 1998

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.