Company patents
GE Video Compression, LLC
GE Video Compression, LLC's patent strategy is overwhelmingly focused on "Pictorial / Video Communications," which accounts for 99.2% of its portfolio. Surprisingly, despite this core focus, patenting in this category saw a dramatic 81.5% decline in 2025, mirroring significant drops across all other categories like "Coding & Decoding" (-100.0% YoY in 2025) and "Business Methods & Fintech" (-100.0% YoY in 2025), indicating a sharp shift away from new patent filings across its entire portfolio.
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Yearly patent publications since 2023
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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.
119 US filings (since 2023) · 8 categories · 7 themes
Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.
Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.
Methods and systems for efficiently reducing the size of digital data, often employing adaptive techniques, neural networks, or temporal modeling, to achieve high compression ratios while preserving data quality. Includes entropy coding.
Development of encoding and decoding algorithms and apparatuses for robust data transmission and storage, focusing on techniques like LDPC, polar codes, and iterative decoding methods to minimize bit errors and improve communication reliability.
Systems that combine data from multiple camera sensors or capture multiple images from different perspectives or qualities, often involving image processing techniques like synthesis to create enhanced or comprehensive views.
Techniques for encoding digital data onto analog carrier signals using complex constellation diagrams, multi-level signaling, or layered approaches, often combined with error correction codes, to achieve higher data rates, improved spectral efficiency, or extended range.
Techniques and circuits designed to detect, estimate, and mitigate various physical layer signal impairments such as frequency spurs, phase noise, or non-linear distortions, thereby improving overall signal quality and system performance.
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Physical Layer Impairment Detection & Mitigation