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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149264 | Video-communication in mobile networks A video-communication service in which a separation in different components of the video-communication is caused at the telephone equipment of the users, e.g., a separation in a video and in a voice component. The different components are transmitted on different co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144187 | Multiple video stream capability negotiation Video send and receive capabilities of participants are determined by the respective machines determining available combinations, as well as preferences for the receivers. Receiver capabilities are forwarded to the source for computation of negotiated video capabili... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139101 | Pre-processing of video data A method including: obtaining, with the video processing apparatus, video frames, the video frames including macroblocks; comparing, with a video processing apparatus, a current macroblock in a current frame stored in a current frame buffer with a corresponding refe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134587 | Aggregation of video receiving capabilities Video receiving capabilities of participants and source capabilities are compared and conference capabilities for providing different resolutions, frame rates, bit rate, and number of streams are determined by maintaining a conference receiving capability list updat... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130257 | Speaker and person backlighting for improved AEC and AGC Regions of interest in video image capture for communication purposes are selected based on one or more inputs based on sound source localization, multi-person detection, and active speaker detection using audio and/or visual cues. Exposure and/or gain for the selec... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8098274 | Image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method The present invention relates to an image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for selectively performing transmission and display of a main image signal. The present invention transmits and display an sub-image signal instead of the received main imag... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8031222 | Multiple resolution capture in real time communications During remote communication session, there can be situations where information needs to be sent at a high resolution. Sending information at a high resolution allows for the capture of detail that can be lost without the use of a high resolution. A web camera can ob... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7898567 | Transmitting image using mobile terminal The present invention relates to transmitting an image using a mobile terminal. The present invention comprises selecting at least one image having a predetermined resolution, checking a first size of the at least one image, determining whether the first size of the... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7583287 | 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 origi... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7535485 | Delay reduction for transmission and processing of video data The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a v... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7522183 | Automatic control of image transmission in a mobile communication device A communication device is adapted to sense the relative light intensity around a first portion associated with reduced light intensity during communication conducted in proximity to a user's body. The communication device suspends or resumes a previously suspended i... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7443871 | Method and system for managing a jitter buffer Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting the length of delay before playback as a function of the amount of transmission jitter is disclosed, whereby a target error rate is received, error rates at different delays are tracked and current delay is adjusted as a... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7425979 | Communication system The present invention provides an easy-handling and highly-convenient communication system having sufficient adaptability even when a user does not want to transmit a live picture. In a user database for a service provider system, the user establishes beforehand inf... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425980 | Videoconferencing systems with recognition ability A videoconferencing system which encodes different streams of information. The information may include video, audio, speech recognized versions of the audio, and language translated versions of the audio. Text may be sent as part of the videoconference. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417663 | Videoconferencing service system, videoconferencing service operating method and service center A videoconferencing service operating method and the videoconferencing service system thereof in which Multipoint Control Units communicate with videoconferencing terminals through a communication network is disclosed in this invention, it is characterized that thro... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414646 | Method and apparatus for video communication over a limited bandwidth medium A method and system for constructing at least one intermediate frame of an image between first and second frames in a system such as a wired or wireless telephone network. The system identifies a plurality of points having at least one related characteristic in at l... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7385621 | Private sharing of computer resources over an internetwork A data call between at least two internetworked computers is established using a central server. Once the data call is in place, any types of data, information, or computer resources are shared between the two computers, regardless of protocol or data format, by cre... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382398 | Image pickup apparatus and method for the output of AV data and the control of the output of AV data to an external storage device An image capture apparatus includes an internal recording unit and a communication unit. The internal recording unit starts recording AV data including image and sound data on a recording medium in response to a record start instruction, and stops recording the AV d... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369154 | Method for transmitting additional data within a video transmission The invention relates to a method for transmitting additional data within a video data transmission between a transmitter and a receiver according to the prioritized pixel transmission method, wherein the video data consist of individual pixel groups, and each pixel... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362350 | 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 id... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362319 | Method and apparatus for auto-generation of horizontal synchronization of an analog signal to a digital display Determining a horizontal resolution and a phase of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of scan lines each formed of a number of pixels is described. A number of initialization values are set where at least one of the initialization values is a curren... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355622 | System and process for adding high frame-rate current speaker data to a low frame-rate video using delta frames 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 is presented. In general, this is accomplished by periodically identifying an attendee that is cur... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355623 | 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 id... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353253 | Peer-to-peer messaging system A system is provided for peer-to-peer messaging. The system includes a first client machine which may transmit a sequence of messages related to a subject. The transmission of each message can be in the form of multicast delivery or reliable unicast delivery. At lea... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349011 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349016 | Solid-state color imaging apparatus capable of reducing false signals with regard to both luminance and chrominance A pixel area of a megapixel solid-state color imaging device is divided into unit areas for pixel adding and all the pixels for the same color are added together in each unit area. Accordingly, the percentage of utilized pixels is raised to 100% and aliasing noise t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342601 | Communication system, communication device, seating-order determination device, communication method, recording medium, group-determination-table generating method, and group-determination-table generating device In a communication system having at least three communication devices communicating with each other, a seating-order determination device for generating seating-order information for information sent from each communication device and for transmitting the seating-or... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343045 | Image information compression device This invention controls the code generation quantity adaptively with respect to the pattern of images and changes in the images, etc., so as to alleviate degradation in image quality, and to effectively reduce the spatial redundancy in order to provide a margin in t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339605 | Conference link between a speakerphone and a video conference unit A conference link between devices in teleconference system at one site is disclosed. The linked devices include video conference units, speakerphones or stand-alone loudspeakers. Audio data can be transmitted through the conference link between devices. Audio data p... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334735 | Card for interaction with a computer A smart card comprising: a memory for storing information; at least one transmitting or receiving antenna; and a low frequency circuit, for handling information associated with said antenna and said memory, which information is modulated at a modulation frequency of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336300 | Image pickup control apparatus, image pickup control method, image pickup control system, and storage medium In an image pickup control apparatus capable of remotely and reliably controlling an image pickup apparatus from another apparatus, control data for controlling the image pickup apparatus is stored in advance and is transmitted to the image pickup apparatus when the... | 02/26/2008 |
| RE40054 | Video-assisted audio signal processing system and method A circuit arrangement for controlling audio signal transmissions for a communications system that includes a microphone and a video camera. The arrangement comprises a video processor configured and arranged to receive a video signal from the video camera, detect mo... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327386 | Image capture apparatus and method for transmitting captured image without predetermined additional information An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, an image processing unit, a memory, and a network interface unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The image processing unit generates an image file including the captured image and additional infor... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7308476 | Method and system for participant automatic re-invite and updating during conferencing A method for conferencing may include monitoring a status of participants in a conference and recording the conference in response to at least one participant being disconnected or exiting the conference. Another embodiment of the present invention may also include ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301556 | Image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method based on a cut-off mode The present invention relates to an image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for selectively performing transmission and display of a main image signal. The present invention transmits and display an sub-image signal instead of the received main imag... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295969 | Digital recording and playback system with voice recognition capability for concurrent text generation A recording and playback system is provided. The system includes an audio capturing device configured to receive an analog input and an encoder coupled to the audio capturing device configured to generate a digital signal based on the analog input. The system furthe... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296286 | Method and apparatus for transmitting image signals of images having different exposure times via a signal transmission path, method and apparatus for receiving thereof, and method and system for transmitting and receiving thereof A system for transmitting and receiving an image signal has transmission apparatuses and reception apparatuses. Each of the transmission apparatuses includes an image pickup device for alternately outputting first and second image signals obtained by picking up imag... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295608 | System and method for communicating media signals A media streaming system for streaming media signals is provided. The media streaming system takes a library of separate and distinct CODECs that are provided as a searchable CODEC library and used in determining specific characteristics in the media signal to ident... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292901 | Hybrid multi-channel/cue coding/decoding of audio signals Part of the spectrum of two or more input signals is encoded using conventional coding techniques, while encoding the rest of the spectrum using binaural cue coding (BCC). In BCC coding, spectral components of the input signals are downmixed and BCC parameters (e.g.... | 11/06/2007 |
