Patents by Inventor Steven Spear

Steven Spear 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: 4987481
    Abstract: Circuitry for selectively reducing noise which results from film granularity, circuitry imperfections and other sources of random signal degradation by averaging, non-recursively, between 2 and 9 frames of digitized video information. By such averaging, since the noise is random, it is filtered out leaving only the desired picture. The averaging is performed only on areas of the picture which are close in both amplitude and color in adjacent frames. In this connection, in cases where there is no motion or scene change between adjacent frames, the entire picture corresponding to such frames can be processed according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Walker Digital Audio Video Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Spears, David Walker