Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Tao Chen

152Patents
8h-index
119Co-inventors
83Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 2004 → May 20, 2025

Most-cited inventions

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US7630435B2 Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus, and program thereof Electricity 29 Active
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US8866975B1 Backwards-compatible delivery of digital cinema content with higher dynamic range and related preprocessing and coding methods Electricity 12 Active
US9031356B2 Applying perceptually correct 3D film noise Electricity 11 Active
US9607364B2 Methods and systems for inverse tone mapping Physics 9 Active
US10542289B2 Signal reshaping and coding for HDR and wide color gamut signals Physics 8 Active
US7912122B2 Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus Electricity 8 Active
US9554020B2 Workflow for content creation and guided display management of EDR video Electricity 7 Active
US8477838B2 Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method Electricity 7 Active
US7933327B2 Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method Electricity 7 Active
US8035725B2 Multi-focus camera apparatus and image processing method and program used therein Physics 6 Active
US10165275B2 Content-adaptive reshaping for high dynamic range images Physics 6 Active
US8401074B2 Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus, and program thereof Electricity 6 Active
US10497162B2 Systems and methods for appearance mapping for compositing overlay graphics Electricity 6 Active
US7995650B2 Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus, and program thereof Electricity 5 Active
US8897581B2 Guided post-prediction filtering in layered VDR coding Electricity 5 Active
US9230338B2 Graphics blending for high dynamic range video Electricity 5 Active
US9042682B2 Content creation using interpolation between content versions Physics 5 Active
US10542296B2 Chroma reshaping of HDR video signals Electricity 4 Active
US10477212B2 Adaptive chroma quantization in video coding for multiple color imaging formats Electricity 4 Active
US10136133B2 Rate control adaptation for high-dynamic range images Electricity 4 Active
US11032553B2 Luminance based coding tools for video compression Electricity 4 Active
US9679366B2 Guided color grading for extended dynamic range Electricity 4 Active
US8446958B2 Image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image coding method, and image decoding method Electricity 3 Active

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