Andy S. Rao

US Patent 7116717 Method and system for scalable representation, storage, transmission and reconstruction of media streams

US Patent 7199817 Methods and systems for networked camera control

US Patent 7227568 Dual polarizing light filter for 2-D and 3-D display

US Patent 7230640 Three-dimensional perception of environment

US Patent 7274739 Methods and apparatus for improving video quality in statistical multiplexing

US Patent 7295610 Hybrid rate control in a digital stream transcoder

US Patent 7301557 Composite camera system, zoom camera image display control method, zoom camera control method, control program, and computer readable recording medium

US Patent 7302000 Method and system for two-pass video encoding using sliding windows

US Patent 7302005 Efficient coding of side information in a lossless encoder

US Patent 7304662 Video surveillance system and method

US Patent 7349008 Automated camera management system and method for capturing presentations using videography rules

US Patent 7365769 Activating a vehicle's own brake lights and/or brakes when brake lights are sensed in front of the vehicle, including responsively to the proximity of, and/or rate of closure with, a forward vehicle

US Patent 7388600 Mail-sorting installation comprising a colour reading head with two cameras

US Patent 7388916 Water ring scanning apparatus and method, and apparatus and method for encoding/decoding video sequences using the same

US Patent 7388917 Image-processing method and image processor

US Patent 7391433 Monitoring system for hostile environment

US Patent 7391810 High-speed motion estimator and method with variable search window

US Patent 7397852 Image processing apparatus and method, and image processing program

US Patent 7400342 Optical observation apparatus with video device

US Patent 7400344 Object tracking method and object tracking apparatus

US Patent 7400681 Low-complexity motion vector prediction for video codec with two lists of reference pictures

US Patent 7408569 Image processing device, image processing method and recording medium

US Patent 7408987 Method of motion estimation for transmission cost reduction of motion vectors

US Patent 7408988 Motion estimation engine with parallel interpolation and search hardware

US Patent 7408990 Efficient motion vector coding for video compression

US Patent 7418037 Method of performing rate control for a compression system

US Patent 7420587 Apparatus and method for inspecting sewer lines using small mobile vehicles

US Patent 7420588 Measuring method, measuring system and storage medium

US Patent 7421026 Multiplexing video decoding apparatus and method

US Patent 7421027 Frame conversion apparatus and frame conversion method

US Patent 7428002 Emergency telephone with integrated surveillance system connectivity

US Patent 7433409 Apparatus and method of multiple decoding

US Patent 7433411 Receiver, CPU and decoder with improved signal decoding

US Patent 7436890 Quantization control system for video coding

US Patent 7436891 Burst mode memory fetches when decoding compressed image data

US Patent 7447264 Moving-picture temporal scalable coding method, coding apparatus, decoding method, decoding apparatus, and computer program therefor

US Patent 7450640 Apparatus and method for determining 4X4 intra luminance prediction mode

US Patent 7450645 Method and system for transmitting digital signals between nodes of a network for optimized processing at the receiving node

US Patent 7450646 Image data transmitting apparatus and method and image data reproducing apparatus and method

US Patent 7460600 MPEG video decoding system

US Patent 7460601 Video data transmitting/receiving method and video monitor system

US Patent 7463683 Method and apparatus for decoding spatially scaled fine granular encoded video signals

US Patent 7466337 Construction machine

US Patent 7471726 Spatial-domain lapped transform in digital media compression

US Patent 7474328 Method for recomposing large format media

US Patent 7480335 Video decoder for decoding macroblock adaptive field/frame coded video data with spatial prediction

US Patent 7499493 Dual block motion vector storage in compressed form

US Patent 7502417 Data transmission device and method

US Patent 7519116 Teritary content addressable memory based motion estimator

US Patent 7519118 Two-layer decoding for hybrid high-definition DVD

US Patent 7522184 2-D and 3-D display

US Patent 7526027 Video data converter and video data converting method

US Patent 7535486 Display control device, display control method, program, and portable apparatus

US Patent 7535959 Apparatus, system, and method for video encoder rate control

US Patent 7542069 Image processing unit with expandable signal processing capability and endoscopic imaging systems

US Patent 7545864 Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal transmission

US Patent 7548585 Audio stream adaptive frequency scheme

US Patent 7558323 Video data transmission method for changing transmission data amounts in accordance with a transmission speed and a transmission system therefor

US Patent 7558324 Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal transmission

US Patent 7558325 System and process for broadcast and communication with very low bit-rate bi-level or sketch video

US Patent 7561180 Movable body safety system and movable body operation support method

US Patent 7561181 Vehicular vision system

US Patent 7561620 System and process for compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing spatial and temporal encoding

US Patent 7564479 Rearview camera display mounted on a vehicle overhead console

US Patent 7564901 Method and apparatus for providing rate control for panel-based real-time video encoder

US Patent 7576768 Imaging apparatus

US Patent 7577201 Apparatus and method for converting resolution of compressed video

US Patent 7577204 Hits stream rewind

US Patent 7583290 Cash dispensing automated banking machine with improved fraud detection capabilities

US Patent 7593033 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7595816 System and method for capturing and searching image data associated with transactions

US Patent 7599435 Video frame encoding and decoding

US Patent 7599439 Method and system for transmitting N-bit video data over a serial link

US Patent 7602414 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7602416 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7605840 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7606313 System, method, and apparatus for error concealment in coded video signals

US Patent 7606314 Method and apparatus for caching, compressing and transmitting video signals

US Patent 7609767 Signaling for fading compensation

US Patent 7613241 Method of filtering a pixel of an image

US Patent 7619647 Context aware surveillance system using a hybrid sensor network

US Patent 7620103 Programmable quantization dead zone and threshold for standard-based H.264 and/or VC1 video encoding

US Patent 7620104 Video coding system

US Patent 7620108 Integrated spatial-temporal prediction

US Patent 7620110 Method of filing a pixel of an image

US Patent 7623576 Method and apparatus for interlaced/non-interlaced frame determination, repeat-field identification and scene-change detection

US Patent 7627033 Video rate control

US Patent 7627040 Method for processing I-blocks used with motion compensated temporal filtering

US Patent 7627041 Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal transmission

US Patent 7633518 Object detection portal with video display overlay

US Patent 7636104 Video surveillance system

US Patent 7636393 Image processing method, image recording method, image processing device and image file format

US Patent 7639741 Temporal filtering using object motion estimation

US Patent 7639742 Image information encoding method and encoder, and image information decoding method and decoder

US Patent 7643096 Information processing apparatus

US Patent 7643550 Method for presenting streaming media for an event

US Patent 7643551 Compressing video frames

US Patent 7643558 Method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding side information for multimedia transmission

US Patent 7643559 Coding method, decoding method, coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, image processing system, coding program, and decoding program

US Patent 7643560 System and method for scalable video coding using telescopic mode flags

US Patent 7646813 Encoding circuit for transform coding of a picture signal and decoding circuit for decoding said signal

US Patent 7646814 Low complexity transcoding between videostreams using different entropy coding

US Patent 7646817 Accelerating video decoding using a graphics processing unit

US Patent 7649545 Inspection system and method

US Patent 7649947 Selective chrominance decimation for digital images

US Patent 7660356 Compressed video format with partial picture representation

US Patent 7664184 Interpolation image compression

US Patent 7664185 Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding

US Patent 7671890 Roving camera security system

US Patent 7672378 Spatio-temporal graph-segmentation encoding for multiple video streams

US Patent 7680181 Spooling during video format conversions

US Patent 7680185 Self-referencing bi-directionally predicted frames

US Patent 7684483 Method and apparatus for digitizing and compressing remote video signals

US Patent 7684489 Method and apparatus for video compression

US Patent 7684492 Apparatus and method for recovering lost block of image processing system

US Patent 7684493 Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding

US Patent 7684494 Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding

US Patent 7684495 Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding

US Patent 7688895 Method and/or circuit for binary arithmetic decoding decisions before termination

US Patent 7697026 Pipeline architecture for analyzing multiple video streams

US Patent 7697609 Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a moving picture using digital watermarking

US Patent 7697613 Method for providing an extension code for a binary description for multimedia data

US Patent 7701481 Video magnifer with irradiating pointer

US Patent 7702016 System and process for compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams of a scene captured from different viewpoints forming a grid using spatial and temporal encoding

US Patent 7706446 Image-data processing apparatus

US Patent 7706451 Method of selecting a filtering strength for filtering a pixel in an image

US Patent 7711047 Determining intensity similarity in low-light conditions using the Poisson-quantization noise model

US Patent 7711052 Video coding

US Patent 7711053 Method of selecting a filtering strength for filtering a pixel in an image

US Patent 7711054 Method of filtering a pixel of an image

US Patent 7715476 System, method and article of manufacture for tracking a head of a camera-generated image of a person

US Patent 7715481 System and method for allocation of resources for processing video

US Patent 7719565 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7720154 System and method for fast variable-size motion estimation

US Patent 7729424 Apparatus and method for judging lost block characteristic in video processing system

US Patent 7729425 Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium

US Patent 7733960 Motion vector calculation method

US Patent 7738555 System, method and computer-readable medium for encoding a signal into macroblocks

US Patent 7738558 Vector coding method and apparatus and computer program

US Patent 7738560 Temporal slice persistence method and apparatus for delivery of interactive program guide

US Patent 7738562 System and method for generating video frames and correcting motion

US Patent 7746927 Robust single-pass variable bit rate encoding

US Patent 7746930 Motion prediction compensating device and its method

US Patent 7746932 Vector coding/decoding apparatus and stream media player

US Patent 7751478 Prediction intra-mode selection in an encoder

US Patent 7751479 Method and apparatus for nonlinear multiple motion model and moving boundary extraction

US Patent 7755660 Video inspection system for inspection of rail components and method thereof

US Patent 7756207 Method for pre-processing block based digital data

US Patent 7760230 Method for automatically reducing stored data in a surveillance system

US Patent 7768544 Embedding a panoramic image in a video stream

US Patent 7769084 Method for implementing a quantizer in a multimedia compression and encoding system

US Patent 7773673 Method and apparatus for motion estimation using adaptive search pattern for video sequence compression

US Patent 7782940 Methods for encoding or decoding in a videoconference system to reduce problems associated with noisy image acquisition

US Patent 7782951 Fast motion-estimation scheme

US Patent 7787011 System and method for analyzing and monitoring 3-D video streams from multiple cameras

US Patent 7792192 System and method for sub-pixel interpolation in motion vector estimation

US Patent 7792194 MPEG artifacts post-processed filtering architecture

US Patent 7796153 Equalization system and method for an imaging sensor

US Patent 7800643 Image obtaining apparatus

US Patent 7801223 Method for video decoder memory reduction

US Patent 7809060 Moving picture stream generation apparatus, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture multiplexing apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus

US Patent 7809065 Picture encoding system conversion device and encoding rate conversion device

US Patent 7817181 Method, medium, and apparatus for 3-dimensional encoding and/or decoding of video

US Patent 7817182 Internet surveillance system and method

US Patent 7817717 Motion estimation techniques for video encoding

US Patent 7817722 Methods and architecture for indexing and editing compressed video over the world wide web

US Patent 7822120 Moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, and recording medium

US Patent 7822125 Method for chroma deblocking

US Patent 7825950 Video monitoring system with object masking

US Patent 7826533 Method for object edge detection in macroblock and method for deciding quantization scaling factor

US Patent 7826537 Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding

US Patent 7830960 Mode selection techniques for intra-prediction video encoding

US Patent 7830961 Motion estimation and inter-mode prediction

US Patent 7835441 Supporting motion vectors outside picture boundaries in motion estimation process

US Patent 7839430 Autostereoscopic reproduction system for 3-D displays

US Patent 7839926 Bandwidth management and control

US Patent 7839936 Method and system for determining a number of data packets required to transport a data block

US Patent 7843490 Method and system for image information processing and analysis

US Patent 7843994 Moving picture stream generation apparatus, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture multiplexing apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus

US Patent 7844000 Method and apparatus for video encoding

US Patent 7844001 Process and system for encoding and playback of stereoscopic video sequences

US Patent 7852371 Autoclavable video camera for an endoscope

US Patent 7852414 Method of selecting seeds for the clustering of key-frames

US Patent 7859562 Visual aid display apparatus

US Patent 7859566 Arrangement of a first and at least a second additional vehicle in a loosely couplable not track bound train

US Patent 7860171 Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction

US Patent 7860249 Signal processing apparatus and methods

US Patent 7864858 Techniques for minimizing memory bandwidth used for motion compensation

US Patent 7864956 Signal processing apparatus and methods

US Patent 7869520 Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction

US Patent 7869521 Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction

US Patent 7872665 Image capture and processing

US Patent 7881367 Method of video coding for handheld apparatus

US Patent 7881385 Video decoding system supporting multiple standards

US Patent 7881388 Water ring scanning apparatus

US Patent 7885339 Bi-directional temporal error concealment

US Patent 7889796 Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction

US Patent 7889797 Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction

US Patent 7889865 Signal processing apparatus and methods

US Patent 7894535 Systems and methods for distributing and/or playing multicasted video signals in multiple display formats

US Patent 7899118 Local constraints for motion matching

US Patent 7907169 Electronic endoscope system for fluorescence observation

US Patent 7911497 Method and apparatus for video on demand

US Patent 7912126 Systems and methods for improved motion estimation

US Patent 7916793 Picture searching apparatus

US Patent 7916794 System and process for broadcast and communication with very low bit-rate bi-level or sketch video

US Patent 7916795 Method and system for vertical filtering using window descriptors

US Patent 7920624 Inverse quantizer supporting multiple decoding processes

US Patent 7920630 Buffer descriptor data structure for communication link between decode and display processes in MPEG decoders

US Patent 7920633 Method and system for parallel processing video data

US Patent 7924927 Distributed functionality in a wireless communications network

US Patent 7929016 Monitoring system, monitoring method and camera terminal

US Patent 7932922 Method and arrangement in tail threading of a web forming machine

US Patent 7940296 Image capturing unit for endoscope

US Patent 7940299 Method and apparatus for an omni-directional video surveillance system

US Patent 7940931 Signal processing apparatus and methods

US Patent 7944464 Three-dimensional image display device, three-dimensional image display method, and computer program product for three-dimensional image display

US Patent 7944468 Automated asymmetric threat detection using backward tracking and behavioral analysis

US Patent 7949050 Method and system for semantically segmenting scenes of a video sequence

US Patent 7949052 Method and apparatus to deliver a DVB-ASI compressed video transport stream

US Patent 7949054 Flexible data organization for images

US Patent 7949055 Communication system in digital television

US Patent 7952608 Surveillance device

US Patent 7953158 Computation transformations for streaming applications on multiprocessors

US Patent 7953159 Receiving apparatus and receiving method

US Patent 7953161 System and method for overlap transforming and deblocking

US Patent 7953223 Signal processing apparatus and methods

US Patent 7956888 Remote video inspection system integrating audio communication functionality

US Patent 7961215 Smart task-driven video collection

US Patent 7965312 Locomotive wireless video recorder and recording system

US Patent 7965775 Selective chrominance decimation for digital images

US Patent 7965778 Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system

US Patent 7969465 Method and apparatus for substrate imaging

US Patent 7974341 Rate control for multi-layer video design

US Patent 7986734 Video codecs, data processing systems and methods for the same

US Patent 7990413 Camera sensor job selection method

US Patent 7991054 Information signal processing device, information signal processing method, image signal processing device, image displaying device, device and method for producing correction data used in them, device and method for producing coefficient data, programs for executing these methods, and computer-readable medium for storing the program

US Patent 8000390 Methods and systems for efficient prediction-mode selection

US Patent 8004561 Methods and systems for networked camera control

US Patent 8005147 Method of operating a video decoding system

US Patent 8005148 Video coding

US Patent 8005151 Low-complexity deblocking filter

US Patent 8009741 Command packet system and method supporting improved trick mode performance in video decoding systems