Thomas Wiegand
558Patents
32h-index
93Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 12, 1997 → May 8, 2025
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6807231B1 | Multi-hypothesis motion-compensated video image predictor | Electricity | 153 | Expired |
| US7379608B2 | Arithmetic coding for transforming video and picture data units | Electricity | 141 | Active |
| US6249318A | Video coding/decoding arrangement and method therefor | Electricity | 126 | Expired |
| US6894628B2 | Apparatus and methods for entropy-encoding or entropy-decoding using an initialization of context variables | Electricity | 112 | Expired |
| US7702013B2 | Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium | Electricity | 101 | Active |
| US6205177A | Video coder/decoder | Electricity | 101 | Expired |
| US6900748B2 | Method and apparatus for binarization and arithmetic coding of a data value | Electricity | 98 | Expired |
| US7286710B2 | Coding of a syntax element contained in a pre-coded video signal | Electricity | 83 | Expired |
| US10248966B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 83 | Active |
| US7586924B2 | Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream | Electricity | 73 | Expired |
| US10460344B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 71 | Active |
| US7599435B2 | Video frame encoding and decoding | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US9455744B2 | Context initialization in entropy coding | Electricity | 67 | Active |
| US10250913B2 | Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division | Electricity | 51 | Active |
| US10621614B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 50 | Active |
| US9591335B2 | Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division | Electricity | 50 | Active |
| US10672028B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 49 | Active |
| US6943710B2 | Method and arrangement for arithmetic encoding and decoding binary states and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US10719850B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 49 | Active |
| US7088271B2 | Method and apparatus for binarization and arithmetic coding of a data value | Electricity | 49 | Expired |
| US10748183B2 | Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging | Physics | 49 | Active |
| US8218631B2 | Video frame encoding and decoding | Electricity | 48 | Active |
| US10771822B2 | Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division | Electricity | 47 | Active |
| US10687086B2 | Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division | Electricity | 47 | Active |
| US10681390B2 | Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division | Electricity | 47 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.