Company Analysis

Pixelworks, Inc. (PXLW)

Nasdaq: PXLW · Services-Prepackaged Software · Portland, OR · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade2.5
◀ Past 1.7● Present 2.0▶ Future 3.3
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

147 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Pixelworks, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
147
147 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
17
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Audio-visual technology5
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
PIXELWORKS, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
147 granted
9 published
Pixelworks, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
8 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 3, 202512,323,732Methods and systems for judder adjustment in major motion picturesAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Jul 25, 202311,710,223Methods and systems for image processing with multiple image sourcesAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Jun 7, 202211,356,604Methods and systems for image processing with multiple image sourcesAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Apr 5, 202211,295,427Methods and systems for image processing with multiple image sourcesAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Mar 30, 202110,964,240Accurate display panel calibration with common color space circuitryAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Nov 10, 202010,832,379Temporal stability for single frame super resolutionAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Mar 3, 202010,580,384Panel calibration using multiple non-linear modelsAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Feb 4, 202010,555,004Low frequency compensated encodingAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Dec 3, 201910,499,009Realistic 24 frames per second output from high frame rate contentAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Oct 15, 201910,448,008Motion estimation based on block level bilateral filter and local motion modelAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Aug 14, 20252025/0260786METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR JUDDER ADJUSTMENT IN MAJOR MOTION PICTURESAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc.
Jan 9, 20252025/0016284METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR JUDDER ADJUSTMENT IN MAJOR MOTION PICTURESAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 12,323,732 granted from it
Jun 9, 20222022/0180493METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE IMAGE SOURCESAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 11,710,223 granted from it
Mar 31, 20222022/0101504METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCELERATED IMAGE RENDERING WITH MOTION COMPENSATIONComputer technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 11,922,611 granted from it
Aug 19, 20212021/0258510METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE IMAGE SOURCESAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 11,356,604 granted from it
Aug 19, 20212021/0256670METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE IMAGE SOURCESAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 11,295,427 granted from it
Mar 12, 20202020/0082785PANEL CALIBRATION USING MULTIPLE NON-LINEAR MODELSAudio-visual technologyPixelworks, Inc. · patent 10,580,384 granted from it
Jun 27, 20192019/0200055PACKET CONVERTERDigital communicationPixelworks, Inc.
Mar 3, 20112011/0052058ARTIFACTS MEASUREMENT ON VIDEO DECOMPOSABLE PROPERTIES BY DYNAMIC FUZZY REASONINGAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC. · patent 8,437,580 granted from it
Jan 20, 20112011/0013081SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A NON-VIDEO SOURCE IN VIDEO SIGNALSAudio-visual technologyPIXELWORKS, INC.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Audio-visual technology 2.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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