Patents by Inventor Miguel Valdez

Miguel Valdez 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).

  • Compositing external images into a multimedia rendering pipeline
    Publication number: 20070035559
    Abstract: Compositing functionality is provided in the form of an application program interface (API) that applications can utilize to composite images on video data that is to be rendered. In at least some embodiments, this functionality is exposed in a multimedia pipeline towards the end of the multimedia pipeline, such as at or by a renderer component. A set of methods exposed by the API permit an application to create and manage image compositing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Grigorovitch, Jay Senior, Jonathan Cain, Gurpratap Virdi, Sohail Mohammed, Kirt Debique, Gareth Howell, Tim Cowley, Miguel Valdez, Stephen Estrop
  • System and method for accessing multimedia content
    Publication number: 20050188413
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide access to multimedia content of varying types from a variety of sources using a uniform resource locator (URL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Sohail Mohammed, Alexandre Grigorovitch, Kirt Debique, Rebecca Weiss, Sumedh Barde, Miguel Valdez