Lyman Hurd

Lyman Hurd's Accomplishments

PATENTS (Partial List)

Lyman P. Hurd, John H. Elton, Carlos M. Diaz-Perez, "Methods and systems for up-scaling a standard definition (SD) video to high definition (HD) quality," US Patent 8,639,053 issued 1/28/2014

Lyman P. Hurd, John H. Elton, “Video codec systems and methods for optimal motion vector with variable size blocks”, US Patent 8,351,509 issued 1/8/2013.

David Gillman, Mihai Sipitca, Lyman P. Hurd, “Method for Reconstructing a Bi-level image from a Low Quality Discrete Cosine Transform Image”, US Patent 6,434,273 Issued 8/13/2002.

Lyman P. Hurd, Jarkko Kari, Gang Liang, “System and Method for Representing a Video Sequence”, US Patent 5,982,441 issued 11/9/1999.

Lyman P. Hurd, “System and Method for Contractive Mapping Resynchronization of a Data Transmission”, US Patent 5,717,788 issued 4/14/1998.

Michael F. Barnsley, Lyman P. Hurd, Stephen G. Demko, “Method and Apparatus for Compression and Decompressing 3d Digital Data Using Fractal Transform”, US Patent 5,754,704 issued 5/19/1998.

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Michael F. Barnsley, Lyman P. Hurd, Fractal Image Compression (A. K. Peters Ltd.: Wellesley, MA 1993).

TECHNICAL PAPERS PUBLISHED

Mihai Sipitca, David Gillman, Lyman Hurd, “Reconstruction of bilevel images from a low quality JPEG”, SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000, Image and Video Communications and Processing 3974-05.

Lyman P. Hurd, Jose Gerardo Rosiles, “Achieving idempotence in near-lossless JPEG-LS”, Poster presentation: SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000, Image and Video Communications and Processing 3974-73.

Steve Calzone, Keshi Chen, Chih-Chwen Chuang, Ajay Divakaran, Simant Dube, Lyman Hurd, Jarkko Kari, Gang Liang, Fu-Huei Lin, John Muller, Hawley Rising. “Video compression by mean-corrected motion compensation of partial quad-trees”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 7 No. 1 February 1997.

L. Hurd, C. Grebogi, and E. Ott. “On the tendency toward ergodicity with increasing number of degrees of freedom in hamiltonian systems", in Hamiltonian Mechanics: Integrability and Chaotic Behavior, ed. J. Seimenis (Plenum, London, 1994).

L. P. Hurd, M. A. Gustavus, M. F. Barnsley, “Fractal video compression”, Proceedings of Spring CompCon 92, 41-42.

Lyman P. Hurd, Jarkko Kari, Karel Culik II, “The topological entropy of cellular automata is uncomputable”, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (1992) 12, 255-265.

Qi Chen, Edward Ott, Lyman P. Hurd, “Calculating topological entropies of chaotic dynamical systems”, Physica Letters A (1991) 156, 48-52.

K. Culik II, L. P. Hurd, S. Yu, “Computation theoretic aspects of cellular automata”, Physica D (1990) 45, 357-378.

K. Culik II, L. P. Hurd, S. Yu, “Formal languages and global cellular automaton behavior”, Physica D (1990) 45, 396-403.

Lyman P. Hurd, “Nonrecursive cellular automata invariant sets”, Complex Systems (1990) 4, 131-138.

Lyman P. Hurd, “Recursive cellular automata invariant sets”, Complex Systems (1990) 4.

L. P. Hurd, “The non-wandering set of a CA map”, Complex Systems (1988) 2, 549-554.

L. P. Hurd, “The application of formal language theory to the dynamical behavior of cellular automata”, doctoral thesis, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University June 1988.

L. P. Hurd, “Formal language characterizations of cellular automata limit sets”, Complex Systems (1987) 1, 69-80.

STANDARDS DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED

Roger Chuang, Lyman Hurd, Steven Lyles, John Muller, Michael Zeug, “Results of Core Experiment P5, Comparison of entropy constrained variable block size motion estimation motion compensation”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1031 July 1996.

Lyman Hurd, John Muller, Michael Zeug, “Proposal for Common Conditions for Core Experiments”, ITU Rapporteur for Very Low Bitrate Visual Telephony Document LBC-96-111, Dallas, TX USA - April 1996.

Lyman Hurd, John Muller, Michael Zeug, “Proposal Concerning Delay and Display Conditions”, ITU Rapporteur for Very Low Bitrate Visual Telephony Document LBC-96-112, Dallas, TX USA - April 1996.

Roger Chuang, Simant Dube, Lyman Hurd, John Muller, Michael Zeug, “Comparison of Entropy Constrained Variable Block Size Motion Estimation Motion Compensation”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/0769 March 1996.

Roger Chuang, Ajay Divakaran, Lyman Hurd, Michael Zeug, “An error recovery strategy for videophone applications” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/0768 March 1996.

“Iterated Systems MPEG-4 Video Submission Technical Description”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/0553 January 1996.