Patents by Inventor Peter John Brightwell

Peter John Brightwell 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).

  • Video processing system also compressing coding decision data
    Patent number: 7123657
    Abstract: An MPEG2 decoded video signal is accompanied by a representation of the coding decisions to aid downstream re-encoding. The representation is an MPEG compliant bit modified to reduce the number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: British Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Peter John Brightwell, Nicholas Dominic Wells, Phillip Nicholas Tudor
  • Switching compressed video bitstreams
    Patent number: 6831949
    Abstract: An MPEG bitstream is switched in the video domain in between a decoder and recoder pair which remain continuously in operation but which are transparent through re-use in the recoder of coding decision taken in the upstream coding of the MPEG bitstream and inferred in the decoder of the switch. Around the switch point, the coding decisions are modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: British Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Peter John Brightwell, Stephen John Dancer, Philip Nicholas Tudor, Nicholas Dominic Wells, Oliver Hartwig Werner
  • Video processing system also compressing coding decision data
    Publication number: 20030202604
    Abstract: An MPEG2 decoded video signal is accompanied by a representation of the coding decisions to aid downstream re-encoding. The representation is MPEG compliant bit modified to reduce the number of bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: British Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Peter John Brightwell, Nicholas Dominic Wells, Phillip Nicholas Tudor
  • Video processing system also compressing coding decision data
    Patent number: 6577682
    Abstract: An MPEG2 decoded video signal is accompanied by a representation of the coding decisions to aid downstream re-encoding. The representation is MPEG compliant bit modified to reduce the number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: British Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Peter John Brightwell, Nicholas Dominic Wells, Phillip Nicholas Tudor