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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120050454 | Method and System for Creating a Continuous Presence Video-Conference One or more horizontal stripes are defined in a continuous presence video conferencing image, comprising one or more segments of the video image. The horizontal stripes may have different heights. A horizontal stripe builder associated with a continuous presence videoco... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050457 | MULTI-CHANNEL VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-CHANNEL VIDEO COMMUNICATION The present invention provides a multi-channel video communication system which includes a scalable video codec, a bit-stream truncating module, a network module and a multi-channel bit-stream truncating control module. The scalable video codec encodes a video source to... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110249076 | Different Rate Controller Configurations for Different Cameras of a Mobile Device Some embodiments provide a method for encoding video pictures captured by a mobile device having at least first and second cameras. The method identifies a first rate controller parameter that is based on at least a first value that quantifies one characteristic of the ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110074910 | Supporting Multiple Videoconferencing Streams in a Videoconference Supporting a plurality of videoconferencing streams in a videoconference. The method may include receiving the plurality of videoconferencing streams and may include decoding a first videoconferencing stream of the plurality of videoconferencing streams. The method may ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069144 | SECURE VIDEO TELECONFERENCING ROOM CONTROL ISOLATOR Method, system, and computer program product example embodiments of the invention are disclosed to provide a secure room control isolator for a multi-network secure video teleconferencing room that meets the DISA and other standard security requirements. An example embo... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110018962 | Video Conferencing Signal Processing System A video conferencing signal processing system is disclosed. The video conferencing signal processing system comprises a receiver and a sender. An original video signal captured from the sender is capable of being processed into an encoded video conferencing signal by mo... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007128 | TELECONFERENCE DEVICE COMBINING A CAMERA LENS A video capturing device includes a USB transmission interface interconnected with a computer to transmit information and a data processing device primarily formed by an H.264 coding module and an audio coding module. Through the H.264 coding module, the audio coding mo... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100321469 | Video Processing in a Multi-Participant Video Conference Some embodiments provide an architecture for establishing multi-participant video conferences. This architecture has a central distributor that receives video images from two or more participants. From the received images, the central distributor generates composite ima... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100238264 | THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD A 3D video communication terminal, system, and method are disclosed. The terminal includes a transmitting device, a receiving device, in which the transmitting device includes a camera and image processing unit, an encoding unit and a transmitting unit; the receiving de... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100149304 | Image Capturing Device and Image Delivery Method The invention discloses an image capturing device and an image delivery method which is suitably applied to a video conference. The video conference is held between a local terminal and a remote terminal through a network. The device comprises a processor, a video encod... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100079575 | Processing Aspects of a Video Scene Embodiments are configured to provide video conferencing functionality including using pre-processing and/or post-processing features to provide a video signal, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a video conferencing system can opera... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100073455 | Television receiver with a TV phone function A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV progra... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20090225153 | Apparatus For Synthesizing Information, Apparatus For Controlling Information, And Computer Program Product A communication controller receives first ID and second ID indicative of two information synthesizers bilaterally connected to each other from each of the information synthesizers; stores therein the first ID and the second ID associated with each other; and assigns a o... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090207232 | MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE SYSTEM, MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM A multipoint videoconference server is made to swiftly respond to a video switching request from a terminal and a degree of computational complexity is made lower. A server 300 decodes only m (1<m≦n) video streams selected from n terminals and stores video s... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090207234 | Telepresence system for 360 degree video conferencing Systems and methods for image processing, comprising receiving a video frame, coding a first portion of the video frame at a different quality than a second portion of the video frame, based on an optical property, and displaying the video frame.... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090040290 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING VIDEO INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Provided are an apparatus and methods for recovering video information when operating in an area that impairs an electromagnetic field of a transmit/receive signal during a video telephony of a portable terminal. A method of which includes determining a number of buffer... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080225112 | IMAGE COMMUNICATING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF An image communicating display apparatus includes: an imaging unit that picks up and processes an image signal of an object; a voice input unit that receives a voice signal of the object; an encoder that receives and encodes the image and voice signals and generates inf... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080211901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE AND LOW-DELAY VIDEOCONFERENCING USING SCALABLE VIDEO CODING Scalable video codecs are provided for use in videoconferencing systems and applications hosted on heterogeneous endpoints/receivers and network environments. The scalable video codecs provide a coded representation of a source video signal at multiple temporal, quality... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20070263087 | System And Method For Thinning Of Scalable Video Coding Bit-Streams A system for videoconferencing that offers, among other features, extremely low end-to-end delay as well as very high scalability. The system accommodates heterogeneous receivers and networks, as well as the best-effort nature of networks such as those based on the Inte... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070263086 | Image transmission apparatus, display apparatus and method There is provided with a method performed in an image transmission apparatus capable of executing first communication and second communication whose communication speed is lower than that of the first communication with a display apparatus, including: generating an imag... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070257983 | Method and System for Video Telephone Communications Set Up, Related Equipment and Computer Program Product In order to permit a video telephone call to be set up between at least one first video telephone terminal and at least one second video telephone terminal in a telephone network, a service center is adapted to connect with the first and second terminals over the teleph... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070188600 | Multi-stage media compression technique for power and storage efficiency There is provided an apparatus for compressing media content in an electronic device having a video capture device for capturing the video content. The apparatus includes a real-time, Low Complexity (LC) video compressor for compressing the video content into an LC enco... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070139518 | IMAGE-CAPTURING AND DATA-STORING SYSTEM WITH DATA-COMPRESSING FUNCTION AND RELATED METHOD TO PROCESS IMAGE DATA An image-capturing and data-storing system includes a plurality of image-capturing devices for capturing images and generating corresponding formatted data, a first network-attached storage (NAS) device coupled via a network to the image-capturing devices for storing th... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070120862 | Image data processing apparatus and processing method An image data processing apparatus has: an image processing unit outputting image data for display; a compressing unit compressing the display image data; a decompressing unit to which the compression image data is supplied through a communication path and which decompr... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20060245490 | Electronic apparatus and content managing method An electronic apparatus includes a network connecting unit configured to make network connection with a client. A storage unit stores content which has been compressed and encoded. A transcoding unit is configured to convert the content stored in the storage unit to con... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060244820 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus On a captured image corresponding to acquisition time t of acquisition of the captured image, a virtual-space image based on the position and/or orientation at time that depends on the time t and a lag d is superimposed. An image on which the virtual-space image is supe... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060215016 | System and method for very low frame rate video streaming for face-to-face video conferencing A real-time low frame-rate video compression system and method that allows the user to perform face-to-face communication through an extremely low bandwidth network. At the encoder side, the system is able to automatically select only a few good faces from the original ... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060197828 | Method and system for delivering dual layer hdtv signals through broadcasting and streaming The present invention provides a method and system for delivering SDTV/HDTV services that achieves significant bandwidth savings, while keeping the existing SDTV transmission unchanged. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a system is provided for deliver... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060139446 | Apparatus and method for processing and displaying pictures The invention is directed to a technique for realtime processing of photographed pictures with less memory requirements. An image compressor compresses unit images, and so on of a given source picture individually. By converting reference data of compressed unit images ... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060109339 | VIDEO IMAGE CAPTURING AND DISPLAYING METHOD AND RELATED SYSTEM A video image capturing and displaying system and related method is disclosed. The system includes an imaging module for capturing a video image consisting of a time series of image frames, each image frame comprising a plurality of sequential lines of pixels; a video i... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060092271 | Image compression device, image compression method, image compression program, compression encoding method, compression/encoding device,compression/encoding program,decoding method, deconding device, and decoding program There are provided an image compression device, method, and program, a compression code data encoding device, method, and program, and a decoding device, method, and program. The image compression device includes: means for dividing the entire image into blocks, calcula... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060092270 | Kinesiological model-based gestural augmentation of voice communication A sending conversant uses a sending communication device to transmit voice and body state information over a communication network to a receiving communication device used by a receiving conversant. Model based rendering is used such that the model is transferred from t... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060066717 | Video conference choreographer A videoconference system is provided. The videoconference system includes a plurality of clients. A server component configured to distribute media to the plurality of clients is included. The server component includes a media mixer enabling distribution of a composite ... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060007298 | Motion picture processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program of motion picture processing apparatus, videophone apparatus, and mobile terminal Provided a motion picture processing apparatus (100) including: a single decoder (32) for motion picture processing and for successively decoding encoded image data inputted thereto; and a control unit (1, 11) for carrying out control, in response t... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050275716 | Display apparatus, system and display method A display apparatus has an acquisition unit and a display unit. The acquisition unit acquires information of a meeting video and/or the meeting video from a video storage apparatus and the video storage apparatus stores a plurality of meeting videos. The display unit cr... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050259144 | Method and system for preparing video communication image for wide screen display A system and method is disclosed for preparing video conference images. An endpoint has a wide screen display. The disclosed system creates an image with an aspect ratio of about 16:9 for the endpoint. The image is altered or modified to change the aspect ratio to about... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050248652 | System and method for performing distributed video conferencing A method for executing a video conference is provided that includes receiving one or more audio streams associated with a video conference from one or more end points and determining an active speaker associated with one of the end points. Audio information associated w... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050243168 | System and process for adding high frame-rate current speaker data to a low frame-rate video using audio watermarking techniques A system and process for highlighting the current speaker on an on-going basis in each frame of a low frame-rate video of an event having multiple people in attendance, such as a video teleconference, is presented. In general, this is accomplished by periodically identi... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050243166 | System and process for adding high frame-rate current speaker data to a low frame-rate video A system and process for highlighting the current speaker on an on-going basis in each frame of a low frame-rate video of an event having multiple people in attendance, such as a video teleconference, is presented. In general, this is accomplished by periodically identi... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050237377 | Audio data control An exemplary method for controlling audio data being communicated between a plurality of users over a packet based network comprises steps of combining a plurality of audio data streams into a single master stream, receiving at least one volume value for at least one of... | 10/27/2005 |
