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Edward F. Westermann
Also filed as: WESTERMANN EDWARD F · WESTERMANN EDWARD FRANCIS
18 granted patents·3 pending applications·1,076 citations·filing 1996–2007
96Inventor score
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21 records- 0198US7085322B2Distributed control strategy for dynamically encoding multiple streams of video data in parallel for multiplexing onto a constant bit rate channelIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 1, 2006·119 cites·45 claims
- 0297US6956901B2Control strategy for dynamically encoding multiple streams of video data in parallel for multiplexing onto a constant bit rate channelIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 18, 2005·132 cites·44 claims
- 0394US6859496B1Adaptively encoding multiple streams of video data in parallel for multiplexing onto a constant bit rate channelIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 22, 2005·158 cites·32 claims
- 0493US6549575B1Efficient, flexible motion estimation architecture for real time MPEG2 compliant encodingIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 15, 2003·187 cites·14 claims
- 0590US6040861AAdaptive real-time encoding of video sequence employing image statisticsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 21, 2000·142 cites·26 claims
- 0686US7308029B2Method and apparatus for implementing B-picture scene changesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 11, 2007·26 cites·18 claims
- 0786US6993078B2Macroblock coding technique with biasing towards skip macroblock codingIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·33 cites·17 claims
- 0879US6823015B2Macroblock coding using luminance date in analyzing temporal redundancy of picture, biased by chrominance dataIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 23, 2004·17 cites·20 claims
- 0978US6269120B1Method of precise buffer management for MPEG video splicingIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 31, 2001·60 cites·10 claims
- 1078US6222883B1Video encoding motion estimation employing partitioned and reassembled search windowIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 24, 2001·58 cites·24 claims
- 1177US6307886B1Dynamically determining group of picture size during encoding of video sequenceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 23, 2001·58 cites·13 claims
- 1268US8098729B2Implementing B-picture scene changesBOICE CHARLES EDWARD·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 17, 2012·3 cites·2 claims
- 1367US6895048B2Adaptive encoding of a sequence of still frames or partially still frames within motion videoIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 17, 2005·34 cites·41 claims
- 1465US7936814B2Cascaded output for an encoder system using multiple encodersIBM·Filed 2002·Granted May 3, 2011·6 cites·4 claims
- 1564US6956899B2Precise bit control apparatus with look-ahead for MPEG encodingIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 18, 2005·30 cites·12 claims
- 1664US6941025B2Simultaneous vertical spatial filtering and chroma conversion in video imagesIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 6, 2005·6 cites·8 claims
- 1756US6720893B2Programmable output control of compressed data from encoderIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 13, 2004·2 cites·21 claims
- 1848US2006126738A1Method, system and program product for a plurality of cameras to track an object using motion vector dataIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 1948US2006126737A1Method, system and program product for a camera to track an object using motion vector dataIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 2042US2003138045A1Video decoder with scalable architectureIBM·Filed 2002·Application pending·0 cites
- 2135US7016413B2Adaptively encoding a picture of contrasted complexity having normal video and noisy video portionsIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 21, 2006·5 cites·37 claims
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