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Brian R. Nickerson — 25 Patents

Intel: 25 patents #1,588 of 30,777Top 6%
Beaverton, OR: #239 of 3,140 inventorsTop 8%
Oregon: #1,672 of 28,073 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Brian R. Nickerson has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in January 2021. Brian R. Nickerson ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Brian R. Nickerson in Beaverton, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1996.peak 51994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents1996: 5 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 4 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10891131 Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to consolidate data elements and generate index updates Mohammad Ashraf Bhuiyan 2021-01-12 $55,416,000
8854389 Apparatus and method for hardware-based video/image post-processing Samuel Wong, Sreenath Kurupati, Sunil Chaudhari, Jonathan W. Liu 2014-10-07 $15,242,000
8773555 Video bit stream extension by video information annotation Christopher J. Lord, Fernando Martins 2014-07-08 $15,420,000
7714909 Video bit stream extension by differential information annotation Christopher J. Lord, Fernando Martins 2010-05-11 $17,259,000
7515766 Apparatus and method for edge handling in image processing Sreenath Kurupati, Samuel Wong, Sunil Chaudhari, Jonathan W. Liu 2009-04-07 $17,723,000
7256825 Video bit stream extension by differential information annotation Christopher J. Lord, Fernando Martins 2007-08-14 $18,880,000
6842190 Video bit stream extension with supplementary content information to aid in subsequent video processing Christopher J. Lord, Fernando Martins 2005-01-11 $22,975,000
6526159 Eye tracking for resource and power management 2003-02-25 $39,445,000
6404812 Method and apparatus for controlling video encoder output bit rate using progressive re-quantization Fernando Martins 2002-06-11 $104,024,000
5926569 Bitrate damper for selecting quantization levels for image encoding 1999-07-20 $113,655,000
5926222 Bitrate estimator for selecting quantization levels for image encoding 1999-07-20 $113,655,000
5900861 Table-driven color conversion using interleaved indices Chunrong Zhu 1999-05-04 $187,330,000
5864345 Table-based color conversion to different RGB16 formats Larry Wickstrom 1999-01-26 $266,440,000
5778097 Table-driven bi-directional motion estimation using scratch area and offset valves 1998-07-07 $55,069,000
5764787 Multi-byte processing of byte-based image data 1998-06-09 $57,213,000
5638068 Processing images using two-dimensional forward transforms 1997-06-10 $89,731,000
5559722 Process, apparatus and system for transforming signals using pseudo-SIMD processing 1996-09-24 $33,056,000
5539662 Process, apparatus and system for transforming signals using strength-reduced transforms 1996-07-23 $49,221,000
5528238 Process, apparatus and system for decoding variable-length encoded signals 1996-06-18 $87,023,000
5493514 Process, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding video signals Michael Keith 1996-02-20 $70,627,000
5488568 Playback method and system for processing image data Michael Keith, Rohan Coelho, Stuart J. Golin 1996-01-30 $63,723,000
5432554 Method and apparatus for decoding images using a specified data format Michael Keith, Rohan Coelho, Stuart J. Golin 1995-07-11 $132,523,000
5386232 Method and apparatus for encoding images using a specified data format Stuart J. Golin, Michael Keith, Rohan Coelho 1995-01-31 $15,353,000
5384582 Conversion of image data from subsampled format to clut format Michael Keith 1995-01-24 $25,280,000
5351085 Method and system for generating compressed image signals Rohan Coelho, Stuart J. Golin, Michael Keith 1994-09-27 $33,956,000