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Thomas Wiegand — 533 Patents

GE: 242 patents #5 of 36,430Top 1%
Fraunhofer: 232 patents #1 of 4,748Top 1%
DCDolby Video Compression: 14 patents #1 of 27Top 4%
VIVidyo: 9 patents #5 of 30Top 20%
TLThomson Licensing: 2 patents #947 of 2,575Top 40%
8×8: 1 patents #24 of 50Top 50%
8.8.Times.8: 1 patents #12 of 33Top 40%
Berlin, DE: #1 of 9,690 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #339 of 4,157,543Top 1%
533 Patents All Time
Thomas Wiegand has been granted 533 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in December 2025. Thomas Wiegand ranks #339 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.01%). Patent records list Thomas Wiegand in Berlin, DE.

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Showing 1–25 of 533 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12513307 Inter-plane prediction Martin Winken, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe 2025-12-30
12513320 Hypothetical reference decoder Robert SKUPIN, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Karsten SÜHRING 2025-12-30
12501062 Video encoder, video decoder, methods for encoding and decoding and video data stream for realizing advanced video coding concepts Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN 2025-12-16
12501030 Effective wedgelet partition coding Philipp MERKLE, Christian Bartnik, Haricharan Lakshman, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller +1 more 2025-12-16
12501053 Inter-prediction concept using tile-independency constraints Robert SKUPIN, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Cornelius HELLGE, Adam WIECKOWSKI, Valeri George +3 more 2025-12-16
12489904 Video coding in relation to subpictures Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN 2025-12-02
12489925 Concept for trustworthiness check of video data streams Jonathan PFAFF, Tobias Hinz, Karsten Suehring, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe 2025-12-02
12483692 Encoder and decoder, encoding method and decoding method for reference picture resampling extensions Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN 2025-11-25
12477107 Encoding and decoding a picture Adam WIECKOWSKI, Phan Hoang Tung NGUYEN, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz 2025-11-18
12464169 Video coding using a coded picture buffer Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Benjamin Bross, Robert SKUPIN, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL 2025-11-04
12457361 Bit-depth scalability Martin Winken 2025-10-28
12457311 Efficient multi-view coding using depth-map estimate for a dependent view Heiko Schwarz 2025-10-28
12457342 Predictive coding concept using template matching Gayathri VENUGOPAL, Detlev Marpe 2025-10-28
12452440 Video decoder, video encoder, method for decoding a video content, method for encoding a video content, computer program and video bitstream Jan Stegemann, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz 2025-10-21
12452466 Client-server communication for streaming of visual content Sebastian BOSSE, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN 2025-10-21
12452409 Video coding concept allowing for limitation of drift Robert SKUPIN, Christian Bartnik, Adam WIECKOWSKI, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Cornelius HELLGE +3 more 2025-10-21
12452362 Automatic caller identification translation Thomas Haustein 2025-10-21
12452421 Partition-based intra-coding concept Santiago DE LUXÁN HERNÁNDEZ, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe 2025-10-21
12445595 Composed prediction and restricted merge Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Martin Winken, Christian Bartnik, Jonathan PFAFF +2 more 2025-10-14
12445610 Unified transform type signaling and transform type dependent transform coefficient level coding Benjamin Bross, Phan Hoang Tung NGUYEN, Paul Keydel, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe +1 more 2025-10-14
12431916 Apparatuses for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values, methods for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values and computer program for implementing these methods Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz 2025-09-30
12432365 Concept for picture/video data streams allowing efficient reducibility or efficient random access Robert SKUPIN, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Karsten Grueneberg 2025-09-30
12418654 Use-case driven context model selection for hybrid video coding tools Jonathan PFAFF, Philipp Helle, Michael SCHÄFER, Tobias Hinz, Björn STALLENBERGER +3 more 2025-09-16
12413725 Coding using matrix based intra-prediction and secondary transforms Jonathan PFAFF, Tobias Hinz, Philipp Helle, Philipp MERKLE, Björn STALLENBERGER +6 more 2025-09-09
12413244 Arithmetic encoder for arithmetically encoding and arithmetic decoder for arithmetically decoding a sequence of information values, methods for arithmetically encoding and decoding a sequence of information values and computer program for implementing these methods Paul HAASE, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe 2025-09-09