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Stacey Spears — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Sammamish, WA: #292 of 2,558 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Stacey Spears has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in January 2020. Stacey Spears ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Stacey Spears in Sammamish, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10542291 Adaptive noise reduction engine for streaming video Haoyun Wu, Wenbo Zhang, Sudhakar V. Prabhu 2020-01-21 $61,337,000
10129312 Dynamic video streaming based on viewer activity Haoyun Wu 2018-11-13 $53,648,000
9924200 Adaptive noise reduction engine for streaming video Haoyun Wu, Wenbo Zhang, Sudhakar V. Prabhu 2018-03-20 $49,197,000
8842185 HDMI image quality analysis Matt Dubois 2014-09-23 $34,148,000
8750390 Filtering and dithering as pre-processing before encoding Shijun Sun, Cheng Chang 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8705616 Parallel multiple bitrate video encoding to reduce latency and dependences between groups of pictures Yaming He, Florin Folta, Chun-Wei Chan, Chuang Gu 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8576908 Regions of interest for quality adjustments Chih-Lung Lin, Ming-Chieh Lee, Philip Garrett, Anil M. Murching, Amy Jennifer Beauford +2 more 2013-11-05 $39,616,000
8533597 Strategies for configuring media processing functionality using a hierarchical ordering of control parameters Glenn F. Evans, Bruce W. Randall 2013-09-10 $23,590,000
8494231 Face recognition in video content Florin Folta, Yaming He, King Wei Hor, Minesh G. Shilotri, Chuang Gu 2013-07-23 $26,254,000
8396114 Multiple bit rate video encoding using variable bit rate and dynamic resolution for adaptive video streaming Chuang Gu, Chun-Wei Chan, William Chen, Thomas W. Holcomb, Chih-Lung Lin +1 more 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
8311115 Video encoding using previously calculated motion information Chuang Gu, Chun-Wei Chan, William Chen, Thomas W. Holcomb 2012-11-13 $20,195,000
8270473 Motion based dynamic resolution multiple bit rate video encoding William Chen, Chun-Wei Chan, Yaming He, Florin Folta, Chuang Gu +1 more 2012-09-18 $20,371,000
8243797 Regions of interest for quality adjustments Chih-Lung Lin, Ming-Chieh Lee, Philip Garrett, Anil M. Murching, Amy Jennifer Beauford +2 more 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8189933 Classifying and controlling encoding quality for textured, dark smooth and smooth video content Thomas W. Holcomb, Cheng Chang, Chih-Lung Lin 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
7561206 Detecting progressive video Donald J. Munsil 2009-07-14 $33,585,000
7400762 Strategies for performing scaling operations on image information Donald J. Munsil, Glenn F. Evans 2008-07-15 $55,633,000
7308151 Strategies for producing quantized image information Donald J. Munsil, Glenn F. Evans 2007-12-11 $51,211,000
7158668 Image processing using linear light values and other image processing improvements Donald J. Munsil, Glenn F. Evans 2007-01-02