Patents by Inventor John A. Toebes, VIII

John A. Toebes, VIII 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 apparatus for transitions and other special effects in digital motion video
    Patent number: 5959690
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transition effects in digitally compressed motion video, such video complying with the MPEG-1 standard. Transitions between two frames of video are effectuated by selecting a FROM frame and a TO frame, generating a stream of bidirectionally dependent duplicator frames which vary in their motion vector references to the FROM frame and the TO frame according to a predefined pattern, placing the FROM frame in the past buffer of a decoder, placing the TO frame in the future frame of a decoder, feeding the stream of duplicator frames to the decoder, causing the duplicator frames to be displayed, and beginning normal playback of the video stream containing the TO frame at the TO frame position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: SAS Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Toebes, VIII, Douglas J. Walker