Patents by Inventor Stephen John Dancer

Stephen John Dancer 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).

  • 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