Inventor · Potsdam, NY, US

Wai-Man Lam

19Patents
12h-index
14Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 26, 1994 → Nov 14, 2003

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6236727A Apparatus, method and computer program product for protecting copyright data within a computer system Physics 219 Expired
US7151832B1 Dynamic encryption and decryption of a stream of data Electricity 159 Expired
US5847762A MPEG system which decompresses and then recompresses MPEG video data before storing said recompressed MPEG video data into memory Electricity 144 Expired
US5825424A MPEG system which decompresses and recompresses image data before storing image data in a memory and in accordance with a resolution of a display device Electricity 105 Expired
US5818530A MPEG compatible decoder including a dual stage data reduction network Electricity 85 Expired
US5844608A Picture element processor for a memory management system Electricity 76 Expired
US5745183A Image motion estimation system which derives candidate block from interpolated motion vectors Electricity 75 Expired
US6256347A Pixel block compression apparatus in an image processing system Electricity 52 Expired
US6662329B1 Processing errors in MPEG data as it is sent to a fixed storage device Electricity 50 Expired
US5500689A System for detecting a video signal image intensity gradient Electricity 27 Expired
US7012963B2 Positioning of images in a data stream Electricity 17 Expired
US6853727B1 File table copy protection for a storage device when storing streaming content Electricity 12 Expired
US6621934B1 Memory efficient compression apparatus in an image processing system Electricity 11 Expired
US6801536B1 Remultiplexing audio/video PES streams from an MPEG transport system Electricity 10 Expired
US7020205B1 Sending progressive video sequences suitable for MPEG and other data formats Electricity 10 Expired
US6529551B1 Data efficient quantization table for a digital video signal processor Electricity 8 Expired
US6167086A Overhead data processor in a memory efficient image processing system Electricity 5 Expired
US6081300A Apparatus and method for generating on-screen-display messages using stored bitstreams Electricity 4 Expired
US6009171A Apparatus, method and computer program product for protecting copyright data within a computer system General 0 Revoked

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.