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David J. Duffield — 35 Patents

TEThomson Consumer Electronics: 17 patents #9 of 436Top 3%
TLThomson Licensing: 14 patents #162 of 2,575Top 7%
RLRca Licensing: 4 patents #20 of 216Top 10%
Indianapolis, IN: #100 of 5,011 inventorsTop 2%
Indiana: #602 of 33,936 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
David J. Duffield has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Thomson Consumer Electronics. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in August 2014. David J. Duffield ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list David J. Duffield in Indianapolis, IN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8813113 Method and system for adding a conditional access system Jean-Louis Diascorn, Ahmet Mursit Eskicioglu 2014-08-19
8358384 Reduced rainbow artifacts in digital light projection systems 2013-01-22
8332657 Global copy protection system for digital home networks Ahmet Mursit Eskicioglu, David Emery Virag, Michael Scott Deiss, Billy Wesley Beyers, Jr. 2012-12-11
8024752 Method and apparatus for permitting unconfirmed viewing time with addressable pay TV 2011-09-20
7936898 Watermarking of motion picture prints William Bennett Hogue, Jr. 2011-05-03
7551837 Sequence counter for an audio visual stream 2009-06-23 $185,000
7469420 Key transport tamper protection Mark Alan Schulz, Michael Scott Deiss 2008-12-23 $105,000
7420649 Theater identification system utilizing identifiers projected through a screen Mark Alan Schultz, Michael Allan Sterling 2008-09-02 $407,000
7356848 System and method of verifying authorization for communicating protected content Michael Scott Deiss 2008-04-08 $341,000
7318099 Method and apparatus for controlling the distribution of digitally encoded data in a network Thomas Anthony Stahl, Eric Stephen Carlsgaard 2008-01-08 $491,000
7295281 System and method for adaptive marking and coding of film prints Ion Vizireanu, Mike Arthur Derrenberger, Yousef Wasef Nijim 2007-11-13 $498,000
7289644 Anti-piracy coding of motion pictures William Bennett Hogue, Jr. 2007-10-30 $675,000
7254236 Method and system for handling two CA systems in a same receiver Ahmet Mursit Eskicioglu, Michael Scott Deiss, Jean-Louis Diascorn 2007-08-07 $682,000
6970068 Apparatus and associated method for limiting access of information transferred between an electronic security device and a host device Michael Anthony Pugel, Robert J. Ramspacher 2005-11-29 $917,000
5640502 Bit-mapped on-screen-display device for a television receiver Michael Dwayne Knox, Aaron Hal Dinwiddie, Paul D. Filliman 1997-06-17
5617146 System for controlling updates of extended data services (EDS) data Michael Landis, Gabriel Alfred Edde 1997-04-01
5486871 Automatic letterbox detection Paul D. Filliman, Nathaniel H. Ersoz, Timothy W. Saeger, Karl Francis Horlander 1996-01-23
5461427 Television receiver having the capability to associate any HDTV and any NTSC channel Robert D. Altmanshofer 1995-10-24
5453796 Signal swap apparatus for a television receiver having an HDTV main picture signal processor and an NTSC Pix-in-Pix signal processor Robert D. Altmanshofer 1995-09-26
5451953 Programmable remote control unit without extra key for configuration 1995-09-19
5398074 Programmable picture-outside-picture display Gene Harlow Johnson 1995-03-14
5386247 Video display having progressively dimmed video images and constant brightness auxiliary images Kirk E. Shafer, Aaron Hal Dinwiddie 1995-01-31
5363143 Side by side picture display with reduced cropping 1994-11-08
5294987 Field to field vertical panning system Timothy W. Saeger 1994-03-15
5194954 Automatic channel sampling picture-in-picture circuitry 1993-03-16