Patents by Inventor Lance Maurer

Lance Maurer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, apparatus, and computer software for digital video scan rate conversions with minimization of artifacts
    Patent number: 8208065
    Abstract: A video format conversion method and concomitant computer software stored on a computer-readable medium comprising receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames in a first format, converting the video stream to a second format in approximately real time, and outputting the video stream in the second format, and wherein the converting step employs a hierarchical block true motion estimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Cinnafilm, Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Sharlet, Lance Maurer
  • Method, Apparatus, and Computer Software for Modifying Moving Images Via Motion Compensation Vectors, Degrain/Denoise, and Superresolution
    Publication number: 20100026897
    Abstract: A video processing method and concomitant computer software stored on a computer-readable medium comprising receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames, removing via one or more GPU operations a plurality of artifacts from the video stream, outputting the video stream with the removed artifacts, and tracking artifacts between an adjacent subset of the plurality of frames prior to the removing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Cinnafilm, Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Sharlet, Lance Maurer
  • Method, Apparatus, and Computer Software for Digital Video Scan Rate Conversions with Minimization of Artifacts
    Publication number: 20100026886
    Abstract: A video format conversion method and concomitant computer software stored on a computer-readable medium comprising receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames in a first format, converting the video stream to a second format in approximately real time, and outputting the video stream in the second format, and wherein the converting step employs a hierarchical block true motion estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Cinnafilm, Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Sharlet, Lance Maurer
  • Real-time film effects processing for digital video
    Publication number: 20080204598
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer software for applying in real time imperfections to streaming video which causes the resulting digital video to resemble cinema film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Lance Maurer, Chris Gorman, Dillon Sharlet