Inventor · Austin, TX, US

Yi Liu

31Patents
14h-index
20Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 18, 1995 → Dec 13, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6002801A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression by selection of IDCT method based on image characteristics Electricity 97 Expired
US5724446A Video decoder apparatus using non-reference frame as an additional prediction source and method therefor Electricity 87 Expired
US5809173A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression using previous frame DCT coefficients Electricity 74 Expired
US5903313A Method and apparatus for adaptively performing motion compensation in a video processing apparatus Electricity 53 Expired
US7783773B2 Glitch-free media streaming Electricity 50 Active
US6823087B1 Parallel edge filters in video codec Physics 46 Expired
US5864637A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression by selective reduction of spatial resolution Electricity 45 Expired
US5872866A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression by predetermination of IDCT results based on image characteristics Electricity 45 Expired
US5982936A Performance of video decompression by using block oriented data structures Electricity 44 Expired
US6009203A Method and apparatus for hybrid VLC bitstream decoding Electricity 29 Expired
US5680482A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression by adaptive selection of video input buffer parameters Electricity 21 Expired
US5768536A Generation of a secondary video bitstream from a compressed video bitstream to enhance playback performance Electricity 18 Expired
US6075918A Generation of an intermediate video bitstream from a compressed video bitstream to enhance playback performance Electricity 17 Expired
US5784494A Method and apparatus for prestoring dequantization information for DCT VLC decoding Electricity 15 Expired
US6233595A Fast multiplication of floating point values and integer powers of two Physics 10 Expired
US6832232B1 Dual-block inverse discrete cosine transform method Physics 9 Expired
US5774600A Method of pixel averaging in a video processing apparatus Electricity 8 Expired
US6907438B1 Two-dimensional inverse discrete cosine transform using SIMD instructions Physics 7 Expired
US5953457A Method and apparatus for improved video decompression by prescaling of pixel and error terms to merging Electricity 6 Expired
US7142721B2 Method of image compression Physics 4 Expired
US8509449B2 Key protector for a storage volume using multiple keys Electricity 3 Active
US8374480B2 Method and apparatus for video image data recording and playback Electricity 3 Active
US7716404B2 Pseudo-full duplex communication using a half duplex communication protocol Electricity 3 Active
US8307290B2 Remote control device and method Physics 2 Active
US7429991B2 Video card Physics 2 Expired

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