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Joel Sole

Also filed as: SOLE JOEL

83 granted patents·19 pending applications·222 citations·filing 2008–2025

99Inventor score

Technology areasH04N G06T H03M

Files withINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC35 SOLE JOEL15 THOMSON LICENSING8 ZHENG YUNFEI8 INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS6

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102 records

0198US11677983B2Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jun 13, 2023·5 cites·20 claims
0297US11218732B2Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 4, 2022·5 cites·19 claims
0396US12022108B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 25, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
0495US9832486B2Method and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingTHOMSON LICENSING·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 28, 2017·9 cites·15 claims
0594US10694211B2Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 23, 2020·6 cites·15 claims
0694US10097859B2Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingTHOMSON LICENSING·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 9, 2018·6 cites·10 claims
0793US12052439B2Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 30, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
0893US10721490B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jul 21, 2020·5 cites·29 claims
0993US10021412B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decodingTHOMSON LICENSING·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 10, 2018·6 cites·33 claims
1093US9693056B2Method and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingHU YANG·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 27, 2017·9 cites·33 claims
1193US9510009B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decodingGUO LIWEI·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 29, 2016·11 cites·49 claims
1292US9235774B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersLU XIAOAN·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 12, 2016·9 cites·4 claims
1390US11381818B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 5, 2022·2 cites·17 claims
1490US9883207B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive coupled pre-processing and post-processing filters for video encoding and decodingMISRA KIRAN·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 30, 2018·11 cites·28 claims
1590US9661336B2Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selectionSOLE JOEL·Filed 2012·Granted May 23, 2017·6 cites·2 claims
1690US9621925B2Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selectionSOLE JOEL·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 11, 2017·6 cites·14 claims
1789US9214030B2Method and apparatus for processing video sequencesSOLE JOEL·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 15, 2015·21 cites·18 claims
1887US9503743B2Methods and apparatus for uni-prediction of self-derivation of motion estimationGUO LIWEI·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 22, 2016·7 cites·37 claims
1987US9326003B2Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using adaptive geometric partitioningGUO LIWEI·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 26, 2016·8 cites·24 claims
2087US9049443B2Methods and apparatus for transform selection in video encoding and decodingSOLE JOEL·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 2, 2015·6 cites·17 claims
2187US2025350743A1Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groupsINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
2287US2025184502A1Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selectionINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
2386US12206868B2Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selectionINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2024·Granted Jan 21, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
2486US9736500B2Methods and apparatus for spatially varying residue codingSOLE JOEL·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 15, 2017·7 cites·32 claims
2585US12425637B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive motion vector candidate ordering for video encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2024·Granted Sep 23, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
2685US9743081B2Methods and apparatus for collaborative partition coding for region based filtersSOLE JOEL·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 22, 2017·4 cites·20 claims
2785US2025386017A1Methods and apparatus for collaborative partition coding for region based filtersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
2884US12512854B2Methods and apparatus for unified significance map codingINTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS·Filed 2024·Granted Dec 30, 2025·0 cites·24 claims
2984US9681132B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive loop filtering in video encoders and decodersCHEN QIAN·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 13, 2017·6 cites·29 claims
3083US9277245B2Methods and apparatus for constrained transforms for video coding and decoding having transform selectionSOLE JOEL·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 1, 2016·5 cites·29 claims
3183US2024340453A1Methods and apparatus for improved entropy encoding and decodingINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
3282US10742981B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 11, 2020·1 cites·9 claims
3382US10743027B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive template matching prediction for video encoding and decodingZHENG YUNFEI·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 11, 2020·5 cites·22 claims
3482US10547840B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 28, 2020·1 cites·16 claims
3582US9615108B2Methods and apparatus for adaptive probability update for non-coded syntaxSOLE JOEL·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 4, 2017·5 cites·19 claims
3682US8159606B2Method and apparatus for reversible, polynomial based image scalingSOLE JOEL·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 17, 2012·11 cites·10 claims
3781US12413742B2Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groupsINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 9, 2025·0 cites·21 claims
3881US12375654B2Methods and apparatus for collaborative partition coding for region based filtersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 29, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
3980US12034941B2Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selectionINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jul 9, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
4080US10334247B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 25, 2019·1 cites·16 claims
4180US9819952B2Methods and apparatus for embedded quantization parameter adjustment in video encoding and decodingLU XIAOAN·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 14, 2017·3 cites·29 claims
4279US11942969B2Methods and apparatus for unified significance map codingINTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS·Filed 2023·Granted Mar 26, 2024·0 cites·15 claims
4379US9288494B2Methods and apparatus for implicit and semi-implicit intra mode signaling for video encoders and decodersXU QIAN·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 15, 2016·4 cites·32 claims
4478US10080024B2Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groupsXU QIAN·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 18, 2018·2 cites·45 claims
4577US11722669B2Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parametersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 8, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
4677US9723330B2Method and apparatus for sparsity-based de-artifact filtering for video encoding and decodingXU JUN·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 1, 2017·4 cites·29 claims
4777US9253495B2Methods and apparatus for improved chroma transforms for inter frames in video encoding and decodingLU XIAOAN·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 2, 2016·3 cites·13 claims
4877US9154798B2Methods and apparatus for efficient video encoding and decoding of intra prediction modeGUO LIWEI·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 6, 2015·3 cites·57 claims
4976US11895296B2Methods and apparatus for collaborative partition coding for region based filtersINTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 6, 2024·0 cites·22 claims
5076US11671112B2Methods and apparatus for unified significance map codingINTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 6, 2023·0 cites·20 claims

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