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Lowell L. Winger
Also filed as: WINGER LOWELL · WINGER LOWELL L · WINGER LOWELL LEROY
86 granted patents·10 pending applications·2,040 citations·filing 2001–2017
99Inventor score
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96 records- 0197US8155194B2Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to H.264 video transcodingWINGER LOWELL L·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 10, 2012·41 cites·20 claims
- 0296US7595743B1System and method for reducing storage requirements for content adaptive binary arithmetic codingLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 29, 2009·41 cites·24 claims
- 0396US7551232B2Noise adaptive 3D composite noise reductionLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 23, 2009·40 cites·21 claims
- 0496US7432986B2Method and apparatus for masking of video artifacts and/or insertion of film grain in a video decoderLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 7, 2008·30 cites·31 claims
- 0596US7362376B2Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversionLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 22, 2008·82 cites·19 claims
- 0696US7020200B2System and method for direct motion vector prediction in bi-predictive video frames and fieldsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 28, 2006·97 cites·27 claims
- 0795US8045618B2Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to VC-1 video transcodingLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 25, 2011·24 cites·22 claims
- 0895US7659939B2Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversionLSI CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 9, 2010·24 cites·20 claims
- 0995US7620103B2Programmable quantization dead zone and threshold for standard-based H.264 and/or VC1 video encodingLSI CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 17, 2009·69 cites·24 claims
- 1095US7469070B2Method for selection of contexts for arithmetic coding of reference picture and motion vector residual bitstream syntax elementsLSI CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 23, 2008·79 cites·20 claims
- 1195US7327786B2Method for improving rate-distortion performance of a video compression system through parallel coefficient cancellation in the transformLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 5, 2008·80 cites·22 claims
- 1295US7324595B2Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of non-reference frame encoding using selective reconstructionLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 29, 2008·81 cites·20 claims
- 1395US7170938B1Rate control method for video transcodingCISCO SYSTEMS CANADA CO·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 30, 2007·97 cites·9 claims
- 1495US6959044B1Dynamic GOP system and method for digital video encodingCISCO SYSTEMS CANADA CO·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 25, 2005·113 cites·20 claims
- 1594US7881384B2Method and apparatus for H.264 to MPEG-2 video transcodingLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 1, 2011·17 cites·6 claims
- 1694US7705913B2Unified approach to film mode detectionLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 27, 2010·24 cites·29 claims
- 1794US7623575B2Method and apparatus for sub-pixel motion compensationLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 24, 2009·24 cites·15 claims
- 1894US7373009B2Method and apparatus for efficient transmission and decoding of quantization matricesLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 13, 2008·24 cites·21 claims
- 1994US7310371B2Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstructionLSI CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 18, 2007·63 cites·12 claims
- 2093US8170107B2Flexible reduced bandwidth compressed video decoderWINGER LOWELL L·Filed 2008·Granted May 1, 2012·20 cites·21 claims
- 2193US7362804B2Graphical symbols for H.264 bitstream syntax elementsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 22, 2008·64 cites·22 claims
- 2293US7231587B2Embedded picture PSNR/CRC data in compressed video bitstreamLSI CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 12, 2007·57 cites·25 claims
- 2392US7949044B2Method for coefficient bitdepth limitation, encoder and bitstream generation apparatusLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 24, 2011·17 cites·20 claims
- 2492US7813429B2System and method for segmentation of macroblocksLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 12, 2010·18 cites·12 claims
- 2592US7345708B2Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversionLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 18, 2008·51 cites·18 claims
- 2692US6917310B2Video decoder and encoder transcoder to and from re-orderable formatLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 12, 2005·49 cites·31 claims
- 2791US8149915B1Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimationNOVOTNY PAVEL·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 3, 2012·18 cites·20 claims
- 2891US8036271B2Method and apparatus for determining a second picture for temporal direct-mode block predictionLSI CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 11, 2011·43 cites·20 claims
- 2991US7346111B2Co-located motion vector storageLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 18, 2008·49 cites·24 claims
- 3091US6968092B1System and method for reduced codebook vector quantizationCISCO SYSTEMS CANADA CO·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 22, 2005·62 cites·19 claims
- 3190US7801223B2Method for video decoder memory reductionLSI CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 21, 2010·13 cites·22 claims
- 3290US7415069B2Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter setsLSI CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 19, 2008·38 cites·17 claims
- 3389US7596239B2Method and/or apparatus for video watermarking and steganography using simulated film grainLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 29, 2009·19 cites·28 claims
- 3488US8160148B2Computational reduction in motion estimation based on lower bound of cost functionBOOTH SIMON·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 17, 2012·14 cites·20 claims
- 3588US7912127B2H.264 to VC-1 and VC-1 to H.264 transcodingLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 22, 2011·10 cites·4 claims
- 3688US7233622B2Reduced complexity efficient binarization method and/or circuit for motion vector residualsLSI CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 19, 2007·34 cites·20 claims
- 3787US8437401B2Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimationNOVOTNY PAVEL·Filed 2012·Granted May 7, 2013·7 cites·20 claims
- 3887US8150187B1Baseband signal quantizer estimationWINGER LOWELL L·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 3, 2012·11 cites·6 claims
- 3987US7612828B2Progressive video detection with aggregated block SADSLSI CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 3, 2009·10 cites·20 claims
- 4086US7751484B2Method for composite video artifacts reductionLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 6, 2010·9 cites·20 claims
- 4186US7366236B1Source adaptive system and method for 2D iDCTCISCO SYTEMS CANADA CO·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 29, 2008·55 cites·20 claims
- 4286US7362809B2Computational reduction in motion estimation based on lower bound of cost functionLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 22, 2008·28 cites·20 claims
- 4385US7893993B2Method for video deinterlacing and format conversionLSI CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 22, 2011·6 cites·20 claims
- 4485US7212573B2Method and/or apparatus for determining minimum positive reference indices for a direct prediction modeLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted May 1, 2007·25 cites·17 claims
- 4585US7170561B2Method and apparatus for video and image deinterlacing and format conversionLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 30, 2007·28 cites·20 claims
- 4684US7944968B2Method for specification of quantized coefficient limitLSI CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 17, 2011·8 cites·18 claims
- 4784US7688895B2Method and/or circuit for binary arithmetic decoding decisions before terminationLSI CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 30, 2010·25 cites·30 claims
- 4883US8233547B2Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter setsWINGER LOWELL L·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 31, 2012·6 cites·20 claims
- 4982US7010044B2Intra 4×4 modes 3, 7 and 8 availability determination intra estimation and compensationLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 7, 2006·27 cites·22 claims
- 5082US6744387B2Method and system for symbol binarizationLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 1, 2004·17 cites·6 claims
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