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Nicholas Ian Saunders
Also filed as: SAUNDERS NICHOLAS · SAUNDERS NICHOLAS I · SAUNDERS NICHOLAS IAN
69 granted patents·5 pending applications·815 citations·filing 1991–2022
99Inventor score
Files withSONY CORP38SONY UK LTD24BURNS JAMES EDWARD5HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO1PERIDOT PRINT LLC1
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74 records- 0197US9674531B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 6, 2017·17 cites·20 claims
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- 0395US9948929B2Quantization for different color sampling schemesSONY CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 17, 2018·11 cites·21 claims
- 0493US6529555B1Signal processorSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 4, 2003·63 cites·26 claims
- 0591US10827169B2Method and apparatus for chrominance processing in video coding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 3, 2020·5 cites·21 claims
- 0691US9693058B2Filtering of prediction units according to intra prediction directionSONY CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 27, 2017·5 cites·20 claims
- 0791US9686547B2Mode-dependent coefficient scanning and directional transforms for different colour sampling formatsSONY CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 20, 2017·5 cites·22 claims
- 0890US6351226B1Block-by-block data compression with quantization controlSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 26, 2002·48 cites·11 claims
- 0989US10097834B2Selection of the maximum dynamic range of transformed data and the data precision of transform matrices according to the bit depth of input dataSONY CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 9, 2018·6 cites·14 claims
- 1088US10244232B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 26, 2019·2 cites·29 claims
- 1188US6642967B1Video data formatting and storage employing data allocation to control transcoding to intermediate video signalSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 4, 2003·38 cites·16 claims
- 1287US10097844B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 9, 2018·5 cites·20 claims
- 1387US7227900B2Differential encodingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 5, 2007·32 cites·20 claims
- 1487US6567128B1Video signal processing in which first video information and additional video information are combined to produce frames that are encoded with different picture qualities for edge and non-edge regionsSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted May 20, 2003·35 cites·23 claims
- 1586US10841572B2Intra prediction mode derivation for chrominance valuesSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 17, 2020·1 cites·21 claims
- 1684US6983015B1Signal processorSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 3, 2006·26 cites·40 claims
- 1784US6760377B1Signal processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 6, 2004·25 cites·55 claims
- 1882US5208667AMotion compensated video standards converter and method of deriving motion vectorsSONY BROADCAST & COMMUNICATION·Filed 1991·Granted May 4, 1993·58 cites·10 claims
- 1981US6741747B1Data compressionSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted May 25, 2004·21 cites·14 claims
- 2080US11770519B2Mode-dependent coefficient scanning and directional transforms for different colour sampling formatsSONY GROUP CORP·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 26, 2023·0 cites·16 claims
- 2180US9686548B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 20, 2017·1 cites·15 claims
- 2280US7352811B2Data encoding apparatus and methodSONY UK LTD·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 1, 2008·20 cites·41 claims
- 2380US6167085AImage data compressionSONY CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 26, 2000·62 cites·5 claims
- 2478US8730359B2Image processingSHARMAN KARL·Filed 2012·Granted May 20, 2014·5 cites·11 claims
- 2578US6847681B2Data processing system and method of data processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 25, 2005·16 cites·34 claims
- 2677US11109019B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 31, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 2777US10863176B2Intra encoding and decoding with variable intra prediction direction setsSONY CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 8, 2020·2 cites·22 claims
- 2876US10674144B2Filtering of prediction units according to intra prediction directionSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 2, 2020·0 cites·26 claims
- 2975US10616572B2Quantization for different color sampling schemesSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 7, 2020·0 cites·24 claims
- 3075US6373895B2Video data compression with trial encoderSONY CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 16, 2002·43 cites·29 claims
- 3174US11252402B2Mode-dependent coefficient scanning and directional transforms for different colour sampling formatsSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 15, 2022·0 cites·16 claims
- 3274US10499052B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 3, 2019·0 cites·22 claims
- 3374US6812865B2Data compressionSONY UK LTD·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 2, 2004·11 cites·12 claims
- 3472US10291909B2Quantization for different color sampling schemesSONY CORP·Filed 2018·Granted May 14, 2019·0 cites·24 claims
- 3571US10531083B2Intra prediction mode derivation for chrominance valuesSONY CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 7, 2020·0 cites·23 claims
- 3671US10440358B2Data encoding and decodingSONY CORP·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 8, 2019·0 cites·21 claims
- 3771US5347312AMotion compensated video signal processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 1992·Granted Sep 13, 1994·31 cites·24 claims
- 3870US10419750B2Filtering of prediction units according to intra prediction directionSONY CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 17, 2019·0 cites·27 claims
- 3970US10205941B2Mode-dependent coefficient scanning and directional transforms for different colour sampling formatsSONY CORP·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 12, 2019·0 cites·19 claims
- 4070US6993080B2Signal processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·9 cites·23 claims
- 4169US5363146AMotion compensated image processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 8, 1994·29 cites·10 claims
- 4268US5768431AVideo data compressionSONY CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 16, 1998·33 cites·6 claims
- 4367US8212920B2Apparatus and method of motion adaptive image processingBURNS JAMES EDWARD·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 3, 2012·2 cites·9 claims
- 4467US8050252B2Packet-based video network indicating video signal synchronization and methodology thereofSONY UK LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 1, 2011·2 cites·17 claims
- 4567US6643325B2Video signal processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 4, 2003·8 cites·9 claims
- 4665US6263114B1Apparatus and method for compressing image data by determining a quantization factor which provides more efficient use of an available bit rateSONY CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 17, 2001·29 cites·8 claims
- 4764US11039142B2Encoding and decoding of significant coefficients in dependence upon a parameter of the significant coefficientsSONY CORP·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 15, 2021·0 cites·26 claims
- 4864US8055094B2Apparatus and method of motion adaptive image processingSONY UK LTD·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 8, 2011·1 cites·19 claims
- 4963US6683910B1Video data compressionSONY UK LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 27, 2004·6 cites·14 claims
- 5061US10382752B2Image processing device and methodSONY CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 13, 2019·0 cites·16 claims
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