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Thomas R. Gardos — 14 Patents

Intel: 14 patents #2,935 of 30,777Top 10%
Portland, OR: #1,308 of 9,213 inventorsTop 15%
Oregon: #3,136 of 28,073 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Thomas R. Gardos has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in March 2008. Thomas R. Gardos ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Thomas R. Gardos in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1998.peak 61998: 6 patents19981999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents20022008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7345684 Perceptually based display 2008-03-18 $17,443,000
6496980 Method of providing replay on demand for streaming digital multimedia Rachel Tillman, John J. Kirby, Jeff Kidder, Rajeeb Hazra 2002-12-17 $45,119,000
6381364 Content texture sensitive picture/video encoder/decoder 2002-04-30 $84,693,000
6263020 Method and apparatus for bit rate control in a digital video system Karl O. Lillevold, Stephen Ing, Doug Brucks, Michael J. Gutmann, Key Phomsopha 2001-07-17 $231,481,000
6081552 Video coding using a maximum a posteriori loop filter Robert L. Stevenson 2000-06-27 $298,468,000
5996008 Method and apparatus for providing still images in a full motion video communication session using the same full motion video communication protocol Michael J. Gutmann, C. Chris Hansen, Stephen Ing 1999-11-30 $220,693,000
5915044 Encoding video images using foreground/background segmentation Joe Monaco 1999-06-22 $240,692,000
5896498 Method and apparatus for protecting user privacy by providing an inaccurate measure of network systems accesssed David E. Dent, Vaughn Iverson, John W. Richardson, Robert Adams, Jeffrey Kidder +1 more 1999-04-20 $155,334,000
5832234 Encoding images using block-based macroblock-level statistics Vaughn Iverson 1998-11-03 $60,287,000
5815670 Adaptive block classification scheme for encoding video images Vaughn Iverson 1998-09-29 $112,229,000
5802213 Encoding video signals using local quantization levels 1998-09-01 $44,085,000
5737448 Method and apparatus for low bit rate image compression 1998-04-07 $69,264,000
5737537 Two-measure block classification scheme for encoding video images Vaughn Iverson 1998-04-07 $69,264,000
5710602 Gain correction for encoding video images Joe Monaco 1998-01-20 $163,168,000