Patents by Inventor Shawn M. Hayes

Shawn M. Hayes 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 and device for preprocessing streams of encoded data to facilitate decoding streams back-to back
    Patent number: 5838678
    Abstract: A method and device for preprocessing streams of encoded data (e.g. compressed in accordance with an MPEG standard) to permit a decoder to decode the streams, back-to-back (i.e., one stream immediately following another), without being reset and without producing video artifacts. The present invention includes verifying that a multiplexed stream complies with an encoding standard and preprocessing packets of the packetized encoded video sequence such that no video artifacts are produced when a video decoder decodes an adjacent encoded video sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Inventors: Joseph W. Davis, Shawn M. Hayes