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Edmund Thompson — 10 Patents

POPolycom: 8 patents #32 of 365Top 9%
PIPicturetel: 2 patents #16 of 48Top 35%
Burlington, MA: #106 of 774 inventorsTop 15%
Massachusetts: #12,897 of 88,656 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Edmund Thompson has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Polycom. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2021. Edmund Thompson ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Edmund Thompson in Burlington, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 21992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents19942011: 1 patents20112017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10939045 People detection method for auto-framing and tracking in a video conference Xiangdong Wang, Yibo Liu, Jinwei Feng, Peter L. Chu 2021-03-02
10574899 People detection method for auto-framing and tracking in a video conference Xiangdong Wang, Yibo Liu, Jinwei Feng, Peter L. Chu 2020-02-25
10187579 People detection method for auto-framing and tracking in a video conference Xiangdong Wang, Yibo Liu, Jinwei Feng, Peter L. Chu 2019-01-22
10080032 Lossy channel video blur avoidance 2018-09-18
10003765 System and method for brightening video image regions to compensate for backlighting Yibo Liu 2018-06-19
9843761 System and method for brightening video image regions to compensate for backlighting Yibo Liu 2017-12-12
9661325 Lossy channel video blur avoidance 2017-05-23
8064527 Error concealment in a video decoder Yipeng Liu 2011-11-22 $16,564,000
5317672 Variable bit rate speech encoder Antony Henry Crossman 1994-05-31 $3,185,000
5150209 Hierarchical entropy coded lattice threshold quantization encoding method and apparatus for image and video compression Richard L. Baker, Jeffrey Bernstein, Bernd Girod, Xiancheng Yuan 1992-09-22 $3,367,000