Lowell L. Winger

Baseband signal quantizer estimation

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MPEG-2 TO H.264 VIDEO TRANSCODING

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MPEG-2 TO H.264 VIDEO TRANSCODING

Baseband signal quantizer estimation

Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimation

Method and apparatus for H.264 to MPEG-2 video transcoding

Refinement of motion vectors in hierarchical motion estimation

Baseband signal quantizer estimation

MEMORY REDUCED H264/MPEG-4 AVC CODEC

Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to VC-1 video transcoding

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A SECOND PICTURE FOR TEMPORAL DIRECT-MODE BLOCK PREDICTION

H.264 to VC-1 and VC-1 to H.264 transcoding

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VC-1 TO MPEG-2 VIDEO TRANSCODING

Method for video deinterlacing and format conversion

Method and apparatus for H.264 to MPEG-2 video transcoding

Contour free point operation for video skin tone correction

Method for composite video artifacts reduction

Sign coring for contour reduction

PROGRAMMABLE QUANTIZATION DEAD ZONE AND THRESHOLD FOR STANDARD-BASED H.264 AND/OR VC1 VIDEO ENCODING

System and method for reducing storage requirements for content adaptive binary arithmetic coding

Deinterlacing and film and video detection with configurable downsampling

Flexible reduced bandwidth compressed video decoder

VIDEO PLAYER WITH ACTION ON PAUSE

Compressed non-reference picture reconstruction from post-processed reference pictures

Joint mosquito and aliasing noise reduction in video signals

Method and apparatus for masking of video artifacts and/or insertion of film grain in a video decoder

Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter sets

Computational reduction in motion estimation based on lower bound of cost function

Memory reduced H264/MPEG-4 AVC codec

Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion

Method for video deinterlacing and format conversion

Reduced memory and bandwidth motion adaptive video deinterlacing

Reduced memory and bandwidth motion adaptive video deinterlacing

Contour free point operation for video skin tone correction

Method for improving rate-distortion performance of a video compression system through parallel coefficient cancellation in the transform

Method for video decoder memory reduction

Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction

Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction

Sign coring for contour reduction

System and method for display compositing

Progressive video detection with aggregated block SADS

Detection of moving interlaced text for film mode decision

Unified approach to film mode detection

Noise adaptive 3D composite noise reduction

Method for robust inverse telecine

Method and/or apparatus for determining minimum positive reference indices for a direct prediction mode

Method and/or apparatus for video watermarking and steganography using simulated film grain

Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to VC-1 video transcoding

Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to H.264 video transcoding

Method and apparatus for H.264 to MPEG-2 video transcoding

Method and apparatus for VC-1 to MPEG-2 video transcoding

H.264 to VC-1 and VC-1 to H.264 transcoding

Compressed domain commercial detect/skip

Method for composite video artifacts reduction

Method for coefficient bitdepth limitation, encoder and bitstream generation apparatus

Method for specification of quantized coefficient limit

Method and apparatus for masking of video artifacts and/or insertion of film grain in a video decoder

Method and apparatus for efficient transmission and decoding of quantization matrices

Method and apparatus for sub-pixel motion compensation

Programmable quantization dead zone and threshold for standard-based H.264 and/or VC1 video encoding

Method and/or apparatus for parsing compressed video bitstreams

Method and apparatus for improved increased bit-depth display from a transform decoder by retaining additional inverse transform bits

System and method for segmentation of macroblocks

Method for video coding artifacts concealment

Method and/or apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital video together with an n-bit alpha plane

Embedded picture PSNR/CRC data in compressed video bitstream

Method and apparatus for determining a second picture for temporal direct-mode block prediction

Method for selection of contexts for arithmetic coding of reference picture and motion vector residual bitstream syntax elements

Video decoder and encoder transcoder to and from re-orderable format

Low complexity transcoding between video streams using different entropy coding

Low complexity transcoding between videostreams using different entropy coding

Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion

Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion

Co-located motion vector storage

Computational reduction in motion estimation based on lower bound of cost function

Graphical symbols for H.264 bitstream syntax elements

Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter sets

Method and apparatus for video and image deinterlacing and format conversion

Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of non-reference frame encoding using selective reconstruction

Reduced complexity efficient binarization method and/or circuit for motion vector residuals

Method and/or circuit for binary arithmetic decoding decisions before termination

Intra 4×4 modes 3, 7 and 8 availability determination intra estimation and compensation

Intra estimation chroma mode 0 sub-block dependent prediction