Inventor · Nagaokakyo, JP

Yoshiko Hatano

33Patents
15h-index
38Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 17, 1988 → Sep 14, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6091460A Video signal encoding method and system Electricity 62 Expired
US6009236A Digital video signal record and playback device and method for giving priority to a center of an I frame Electricity 58 Expired
US5307163A Coding apparatus Electricity 51 Expired
US5543845A High efficiency encoding apparatus Electricity 41 Expired
US6414995B2 Motion vector detection system Electricity 41 Expired
US8094715B2 Video signal encoding device and video signal encoding method Electricity 39 Active
US6434268B1 Color conversion device and color conversion method Electricity 33 Expired
US6480670B1 Video signal encoding method and system Electricity 31 Expired
US5825419A Coding device and decoding device of digital image signal Electricity 30 Expired
US6590601B2 Videophone apparatus with privacy protection Electricity 26 Expired
US5442399A Method and apparatus for coding a digital video signal by formatting the signal into blocks Electricity 23 Expired
US6795503B2 Video coding method and apparatus that predicts macroblock code length Electricity 19 Expired
US5485533A Method and apparatus for encoding video signals in 3-D blocks without detecting image motion Electricity 18 Expired
US5432556A Coding apparatus Electricity 18 Expired
US6134382A Digital video signal record and playback device and method for giving priority to a center of an I frame Electricity 16 Expired
US4906942A Frequency demodulator with reversal phenomenon compensation Electricity 12 Expired
US4862099A Digital FM demodulator with distortion correction Electricity 12 Expired
US6792046B2 Encoding system and encoding method Electricity 11 Expired
US7343083B2 Digital video signal record and playback device and method for selectively reproducing desired video information from an optical disk Electricity 8 Expired
US6549717B2 Digital video signal record and playback device and method for giving priority to a center of an I frame Electricity 7 Expired
US7433408B2 Encoding system and encoding method Electricity 6 Active
US7340150B2 Digital video signal record and playback device and method for selectively reproducing desired video information from an optical disk Electricity 4 Expired
US6931069B2 Coding device and coding method Electricity 3 Expired
US6922490B2 Image compression of selected regions based on transmission bit rate, motion, and/or region information, and bit selection before compression based on transmission bit rate Electricity 3 Expired
US6829062B2 Color conversion device and color conversion method Electricity 2 Expired

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