Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $5,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Communication Advances, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The three patents below generally relate to video and image processing and all three patents have been asserted against Roku.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
US 8736529 - Method and Apparatus for Generating an Overdrive Signal for a Liquid Crystal Display
Winner - Ekta Aswal
Winning Submission: US 20060279523
US 8494058 - Video/image processing apparatus with motion estimation sharing, and related method and machine readable medium
Winners - Mani Manikandan & Dinesh Swami
Winning Submissions: US 8358373; US 9258519; US 20090161011
US 8284839 - Joint system for frame rate conversion and video compression
Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ken Parulski
Winning Submissions: US 8218638; “Source-Adaptive Encoding Options