Inventor · Berlin, DE

Thomas Wiegand

558Patents
32h-index
93Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 12, 1997 → May 8, 2025

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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