Inventor · Eindhoven, NL

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls

59Patents
10h-index
43Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 27, 1998 → Dec 8, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6621979B1 Trick play signal generation for a digital video recorder using retrieved intra-encoded pictures and generated inter-encoded pictures Electricity 119 Expired
US7421127B2 Spatial scalable compression scheme using spatial sharpness enhancement techniques Electricity 36 Expired
US6687297B2 Video encoding Electricity 29 Expired
US10021377B2 Combining 3D video and auxiliary data that is provided when not reveived Electricity 18 Active
US7146056B2 Efficient spatial scalable compression schemes Electricity 17 Expired
US9098906B2 Generation of high dynamic range images from low dynamic range images in multiview video coding Electricity 15 Active
US8854427B2 Method and system for encoding a video data signal, encoded video data signal, method and system for decoding a video data signal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US8582666B2 Image compression and decompression Electricity 11 Active
US7359558B2 Spatial scalable compression Electricity 10 Expired
US8345751B2 Method and system for encoding a 3D video signal, enclosed 3D video signal, method and system for decoder for a 3D video signal Electricity 10 Active
US8253740B2 Method of rendering an output image on basis of an input image and a corresponding depth map Electricity 6 Active
US9344702B2 Encoder, decoder, bit-stream, method of encoding, method of decoding an image pair corresponding with two views of a multi-view signal Electricity 6 Active
US8447096B2 Method and device for processing a depth-map Electricity 5 Active
US9924154B2 Switching between 3D video and 2D video Electricity 4 Active
US6614989B1 Recording and editing HDTV signals Electricity 4 Expired
US9041709B2 Saliency based disparity mapping Electricity 4 Active
US9438879B2 Combining 3D image and graphical data Electricity 4 Active
US6535252B1 Device for receiving displaying and simultaneously recording television images via buffer Electricity 4 Expired
US7010034B2 Video compression Electricity 3 Expired
US7023917B2 Detecting subtitles in a video signal Electricity 3 Expired
US7209647B2 Encoding device for encoding a program and recording device Electricity 3 Expired
US9325964B2 3D video format detection Electricity 2 Active
US7103104B1 Embedding auxiliary data in an information signal Physics 2 Expired
US10567728B2 Versatile 3-D picture format Electricity 2 Active
US8422801B2 Image encoding method for stereoscopic rendering Electricity 2 Active

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