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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164614 | Communication and monitoring system An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154581 | Audio-video communication system for receiving person at entrance An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144183 | Two-way audio-video communication method for receiving person at entrance A method for two-way audio-video communications between a first person at an entrance and a second person comprises the steps of detecting, with a proximity sensor located proximate an entrance, the presence of a first person at the entrance and providing real time ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144184 | Detection and viewing system An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139098 | Video communication method for receiving person at entrance A method for receiving a person at an entrance comprises the steps of detecting the presence of a person at the entrance with a proximity sensor located proximate the entrance, transmitting video of the person at the entrance recorded using a camera located proximat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7466334 | Method and system for recording and indexing audio and video conference calls allowing topic-based notification and navigation of recordings Recording and indexing audio and video conference calls allows topic-based notification, navigation and playback of one or many recordings. An external conferencing system with five internal modules, recording, indexing, management, notification, and playback allows... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7372371 | Notification lights, locations and rules for a computer system Notifications to computer users are provided via indicators such as lights. The indicators are controlled according to rules, to convey computer-related state information to users in a consistent manner. Locations of visible indicators are chosen to facilitate easy ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251675 | Meeting system and information storage medium In a meeting system, supplied-data which is convertible using a virtual machine is transmitted and received among a plurality of processing apparatuses interconnected via a transmission line, and meeting data is reproduced. At least two of the plurality of processin... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227526 | Video-based image control system A method of using stereo vision to interface with a computer is provided. The method includes capturing a stereo image, and processing the stereo image to determine position information of an object in the stereo image. The object is controlled by a user. The method... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227567 | Customizable background for video communications A video telecommunications system 100 for effecting a communication between at least first and second participants including an image alteration agent 358 that (i) removes desired and/or undesired image information | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224788 | Method and device for generating voice/text/image commercial information ringback tone during communication wait Voice/text/image commercial information generating method and device during a communication is on wait. The method includes the steps of: checking a telephone call, connecting with a commercial information ringback tone generating system/device at an originating or ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7201660 | Gaming machine maintenance system and method A handheld maintenance module may be provided with a display unit capable of generating video images, a wireless transceiver device capable of wireless dats transmission and reception and adapted to be wirelessly coupled to a maintenance controller, and a module con... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193644 | Automated audio video messaging and answering system The invention is an audio-video communication and answering system that synergistically improves communication between an exterior and an interior of a business or residence and a remote location, enables messages to be stored and accessed from both locally and remo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7129969 | Telephone unit having telephone directory with picture data and method for generating telephone directory with picture data When a telephone unit communicates with a communication party using a television telephone function, a receiving portion of the telephone unit receives compressed moving picture data from the communication party having a moving picture encoder through a communicatio... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7081874 | Portable display device and method utilizing embedded still image buffer to facilitate full motion video playback A portable display device (10) includes an LCD display module (12) that includes an embedded still image buffer (16), and external processing circuitry (24) and associated processor memory (22), wherein the processor memory (22 | 07/25/2006 |
| 7050084 | Camera frame display The present invention is directed to a video telephony system, comprising: (a) an imaging device 116 to receive an image of a first participant 104 in a communication interaction with a second participant 120 r... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046268 | Portable videophone unit The object is to realize an automatic response to an incoming call and two-way communication using at least images. In a memory (2), a personal identification number for identifying opposite party who is permitted to have communication in an automatic respons... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7007295 | System and method for Internet streaming of 3D animated content A system and method facilitating the production, processing, and Internet distribution of 3D animated movies including 3D multipath movies. A key reduction algorithm reduces the keyframes associated with the 3D movie to facilitate the streaming of the data over the ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6961003 | Electronic messenger An apparatus for taking an electronic message from a user and actively notifying a receiver is disclosed. The apparatus includes a message input device for receiving the electronic message from the user, a message storing device for storing the electronic message th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950119 | Videoconference system, terminal equipment included therein and data delivery method The invention relates to a videoconference system and others of structure enabling smooth progress of interlocution even in distance interlocution among many people through a plurality of terminal devices. The videoconference system is a network system enabling tran... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937266 | Automated online broadcasting system and method using an omni-directional camera system for viewing meetings over a computer network An automated system and method for broadcasting meetings over a computer network. The meeting is filmed using an omni-directional camera system and capable of being presented to a viewer both live and on-demand. The system of the present invention includes an automa... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6879348 | Method and apparatus for controlling the functions of an image capturing apparatus A method and apparatus for remotely controlling adjusting functions of an image capturing apparatus. The functions include contrast, gamma, sharpness, aperture, and contrast. A control apparatus transmits to the image capture apparatus a first command requesting a c... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6864909 | System and method for static perceptual coding of macroblocks in a video frame The present invention allows video images with improved subjective quality to be transmitted without a concomitant increase in a total number of bits transmitted per frame. Quantization parameters are applied to coefficients of macroblocks within a given video frame... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6859526 | System and program product for managing call information A method for managing call information has steps of receiving a plurality of calls, determining the caller for each call, and recording a message for at least one of the calls with a recorder. A call record is created for each call, with the record having at least c... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6842507 | Simple structured portable phone with video answerphone message function and portable phone system including the same A destination portable phone comprises a multimedia file retention memory 100 for storing and retaining voice data and image data specified as a video answerphone message in a multimedia file format that enables synchronous reproduction of the data, an answer... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6839080 | Remote server switching of video streams A portable video switching device receives video streams from a multiple number of different video capture devices located remotely and selects one of the video streams for further transmission. The portable video switching device receives video streams via wired, w... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6812956 | Method and apparatus for selection of signals in a teleconference A method and apparatus for providing appropriate output signals to output devices in a teleconference setting is disclosed. Input signals are obtained from input devices, and descriptive information describing the teleconference is received from several sensors. On ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6766527 | CATV system, CATV distributor, processing terminal, and receiver In a processing terminal, operational request information inputted from an operational request unit is transmitted as additional information to a communication unit of a CATV distributor. In the CATV distributor, the additional information is received in the communi... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6620099 | Home care system, center terminal and patient terminal There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable telev... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6545698 | Mobile video telephone with automatic answering function and method for controlling the same A mobile video telephone with an automatic answering function is provided for sending a distinct outgoing message to a specified person. The mobile video telephone comprises a camera for taking a photograph of a calling person; a memory for storing a pass... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6509924 | Video telephone with automatic answering function The invention makes efficient use of the function of a video telephone to store incoming calls. A caller image is stored in a display storage portion during a call, and the display of the image with an image display portion is continued after the communic... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6507356 | Method for improving video conferencing and video calling A method for improving video conferencing/calling between participants is disclosed. A video conference/call display window is provided to call participants. The position of the video call window is restricted to a portion of a video display screen which ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6424888 | Call response method for vehicle A call response method for a vehicle used in a vehicle to respond to a call received from another system includes following steps: performing a call reception previous notification for previously signaling a call reception at a predetermined interval to a... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6400693 | Communications apparatus for multimedia information A communication unit stores information including audio and image information in order to respond to a multiplexed multimedia information signal from another communication unit. In response to the received multiplexed multimedia information signal, the st... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6385305 | Video phone multimedia announcement message toolkit A toolkit for creating customized video announcement messages on video-enabled answering machine. The video-enabled answering machine may have many new features including customized video announcement messages, caller ID based video announcement messages,... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6304283 | Conference apparatus and method for realistically reproducing image data and shared board data A conference apparatus is adapted to advantageously perform a conference with a remote counterpart apparatus, store information on the events of the conference and then provide a realistic reproduction of those events. To this end, the conference apparatu... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6281926 | Image answering machine Image answering apparatus comprising: an interface for connecting to a public telephone system; and memory for storing audio and image information received over the public telephone system.... | 08/28/2001 |
