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Stefan Eckart — 16 Patents

NVIDIA: 8 patents #932 of 7,811Top 15%
AMD: 8 patents #1,613 of 9,280Top 20%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Stefan Eckart has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2019. Stefan Eckart ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Stefan Eckart in Munich, CA, DE.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10462473 Method and apparatus for rate control for constant-bit-rate-finite-buffer-size video encoder 2019-10-29
9984504 System and method for improving video encoding using content information Hassane S. Azar, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak, Bryan Dudash, Swagat Mohapatra 2018-05-29 $405,529,000
9918098 Memory management of motion vectors in high efficiency video coding motion vector prediction Yu Xinyang 2018-03-13 $459,437,000
9483845 Extending prediction modes and performance of video codecs Hassane S. Azar, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak, Swagat Mohapatra 2016-11-01 $39,297,000
9414078 Method for rate control for constant-bit-rate-finite-buffer-size video encoder 2016-08-09
8588305 Two-dimensional interpolation architecture for motion compensation in multiple video standards Yong Peng, Zheng Wei Jiang, Frans Sijstermans 2013-11-19 $7,672,000
8190668 Inverse Hadamard transform converter and system Jincheng Li 2012-05-29 $7,584,000
7584475 Managing a video encoder to facilitate loading and executing another program Michael L. Lightstone, Hassane S. Azar 2009-09-01 $21,289,000
7535959 Apparatus, system, and method for video encoder rate control Michael L. Lightstone 2009-05-19 $20,584,000
7277483 Method and apparatus for rate control for constant-bit-rate finite-buffer-size video encoder 2007-10-02
7277581 Method for video format detection Michael L. Lightstone 2007-10-02 $87,401,000
7050460 Method and apparatus for multiplexing data streams using time constraints Fabio Onofrio Ingrao 2006-05-23 $31,339,000
6850692 Method and apparatus for retrieving digital video using successive linear approximation 2005-02-01 $17,331,000
6714720 Method and apparatus for storing multi-media data Michael L. Lightstone, Richard Webb, Haitao Guo, Xiaohua Yang, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao 2004-03-30 $15,292,000
6693959 Method and apparatus for indexing and locating key frames in streaming and variable-frame-length data Fabio Onofrio Ingrao, Richard Webb, Xiaohua Yang, Michael L. Lightstone 2004-02-17 $16,943,000
6567127 Method and apparatus for enhanced video encoding Stephen J. Orr, Miachel L. Lightstone 2003-05-20 $12,512,000