Patents by Inventor Earl Wayne Vanderhoff

Earl Wayne Vanderhoff 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).

  • Patent number: 8928809
    Abstract: A device may receive a first video, receive a second video, and locate first frames, in the first video, in which a first change in scene occurs. In addition, the device may locate second frames, in the second video, in which a second change in scene occurs. Further, the device may determine whether the first change in scene matches the second change in scene and achieve synchronization when the first change in scene matches the second change in scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Earl Wayne Vanderhoff
  • Patent number: 8867850
    Abstract: A system includes a content evaluation device is configured to receive reproduced media content and compare the reproduced media content to reference media content to determine a quality of the reproduced media content relative to the reference media content. The content evaluation device is configured to apply an entropy factor to the determined quality to model human perception of the reproduced media content. A method of determining the entropy factor includes converting the reference media content or the reproduced media content to a grayscale image, counting a number of unique luminance values in the grayscale image, determining the total number of possible luminance values, and defining the entropy factor to be the number of total pixels compared relative to the maximum number of pixels represented by any single luminance value multiplied by the number of possible luminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Earl Wayne Vanderhoff
  • Publication number: 20130128055
    Abstract: A system includes a content evaluation device is configured to receive reproduced media content and compare the reproduced media content to reference media content to determine a quality of the reproduced media content relative to the reference media content. The content evaluation device is configured to apply an entropy factor to the determined quality to model human perception of the reproduced media content. A method of determining the entropy factor includes converting the reference media content or the reproduced media content to a grayscale image, counting a number of unique luminance values in the grayscale image, determining the total number of possible luminance values, and defining the entropy factor to be the number of total pixels compared relative to the maximum number of pixels represented by any single luminance value multiplied by the number of possible luminance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Earl Wayne Vanderhoff
  • Publication number: 20120062793
    Abstract: A device may receive a first video, receive a second video, and locate first frames, in the first video, in which a first change in scene occurs. In addition, the device may locate second frames, in the second video, in which a second change in scene occurs. Further, the device may determine whether the first change in scene matches the second change in scene and achieve synchronization when the first change in scene matches the second change in scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Earl Wayne Vanderhoff
  • Publication number: 20100161779
    Abstract: A system and method for providing quality-referenced multimedia including a receiver configured to receive multimedia from at least one multimedia source, and one or more processors configured to generate a quality reference based on the multimedia, format the quality reference into an elementary stream, and associate the elementary stream with the multimedia to form quality-referenced multimedia. The system and method may also include a transmitter configured to transmit the quality-referenced multimedia for output at one or more output devices and one or more storage systems for storing the quality-referenced multimedia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicants: VERIZON SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC, VERIZON SERVICES CORP.
    Inventors: Earl Wayne Vanderhoff, Alexander Laparidis, Leonardo Chen