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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5592399 | Pipelined video encoder architecture A system and method is provided for encoding data wherein contiguous data values represent a video image. Three contiguous data values are applied to a loop filter to provide digital filtering of the data values. A frame differencing device performs a sub... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5587928 | Computer teleconferencing method and apparatus A computer teleconferencing method and apparatus are provided which permits transmission of video image sources including both computer display images and other video images. The apparatus may include at a local teleconferencing site a personal computer h... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5581702 | Computer conferencing system for selectively linking and unlinking private page with public page by selectively activating linked mode and non-linked mode for each participant An apparatus and method for lining public and private pages in a conferencing system is disclosed. In a computer conferencing system having a plurality of participants coupled by a communication medium, a process for linking public and private pages compr... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5577208 | "Multimedia" intercommunication between workstations having auxiliary unit directly connected to output of workstation and input to display wherein local and remote image data are combined A multimedia intercommunications installation suitable for conveying animated images between a plurality of users each provided with a microcomputer type of workstation. Each user is provided with a new central unit which processes the pixels for the scre... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5563805 | Multimedia context-sensitive real-time-help mechanism for use in a data processing system A method and apparatus for providing assistance to a user in a distributed data processing system. The distributed data processing system includes a plurality of applications and has a multiple users enrolled therein, wherein a plurality of expert users a... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5537548 | Method of computer conferencing by intercepting commands issued by application programs and redirecting to all stations for execution During execution, API calls to the operating system in a master processor are transferred to slave processors by an event redirection mechanism, the API calls are then provided to the operating systems of the slave processors by their event redirection me... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537338 | Process and apparatus for bitwise tracking in a byte-based computer system A bit pointer is updated by a specified value; and a byte pointer is updated in accordance with a lookup table and the updated bit pointer.... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5535138 | Encoding and decoding video signals using dynamically generated quantization matrices Video signals are encoded using quantization matrices generated based on one or more quantization matrix parameters that are contained in the encoded bit stream. Encoded video signals are decoded using quantization matrices generated using the one or more... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5532940 | Process, apparatus and system for selecting quantization levels for encoding video signals A quantization level is selected for the current video frame in accordance with a plurality of mappings, wherein each mapping correlates an activity measure with a bits per frame measure and each mapping corresponds to a quantization level of a plurality ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532937 | Switching of multiple multimedia data streams A method of switching multimedia data streams in response to requests to allocate or deallocate a user on a network receiving those data streams is herein described. The data streams are transmitted in master cycles, portions of each master cycle being al... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5524110 | Conferencing over multiple transports A computer-based conferencing system capable of selectively conferencing with a remote node over two or more different transports. A host processor controls the generation of local conferencing signals for transmission to the remote node over either a fir... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5515296 | Scan path for encoding and decoding two-dimensional signals A scan path is generated using one or more two-dimensional sets of training signals. For encoding, a two-dimensional set of signals is encoded using the scan path. For decoding, a two-dimensional set of encoded signals is decoded using the scan path. In a... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5511003 | Encoding and decoding video signals using spatial filtering Reference frames are generated by applying spatial filtering to decoded video frames after pixel reconstruction. For encoding video signals, the reference frames are used to encode subsequent video frames using interframe encoding. For decoding video sign... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5506954 | PC-based conferencing system A video subsystem resides partially on a host processor and partially on a video board. Audio and communications subsystems reside partially on the host processor and partially on a audio/communications board. The video subsystem generates and passes loca... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5491797 | Schedulable automatically configured video conferencing system A videoconferencing network system that provides schedulable, automatic interconnectivity between a selectable user sites. The network system places the user in direct control of all aspects of the conference. Minimum videoconferencing equipment, includin... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5491743 | Virtual conference system and terminal apparatus therefor A terminal apparatus for a virtual conference system comprises: a display means for displaying a virtual conference room used for holding a virtual conference, and for displaying, in the virtual conference room, animated characters representing attendants... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5491798 | Method for network call management A network comprises a set of nodes, each comprising a computer workstation in a computer network and including means responsive to messages from other computers in the network to join or leave a call. Each node maintains a list of calls in which that node... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5490247 | Video subsystem for computer-based conferencing system A video microcode resides on a video board of the computer conferencing system. A video capture driver, a video manager, and a video applications programming interface reside on a general-purpose host processor of the computer conferencing system. The vid... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5488568 | Playback method and system for processing image data A method and system for processing an image. The system stores and decodes encoded image data. Before decoding, the image data has an OPERATING SYSTEM header, a BITSTREAM header, a Y-COMPONENT DATA field, a U-COMPONENT DATA field, and a V-COMPONENT DATA f... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488570 | Encoding and decoding video signals using adaptive filter switching criteria Reference frames are generated by selectively filtering blocks of decoded video frames. The decision whether to filter a block is based on a comparison of an energy measure value generated for the block and an energy measure threshold value corresponding ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5477469 | Operation device and operation method for discrete cosine transform and inverse discrete cosine transform With addition/subtraction and product-sum operation procedures, a one-dimensional N-order discrete cosine transform (DCT) operation is performed so that N pieces of DCT results can be obtained from N pieces of original image data with arguments from 0 to ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5471318 | Multimedia communications network A circuit configuration in a multimedia network representing a controllably persistent virtual meeting room simulates an actual meeting room where conferences between two or more people may be held. This facilitates the creation in the network of flexible... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5465370 | Electronic meeting support system Interfaces of a LAN are arranged in a plurality of terminals, and a controller of a large size monitor, and the terminals and the controller are connected via the LAN. A means for transmitting information input at each terminal to the monitor controller v... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5440699 | System by which a remote computer receives screen images from and transmits commands to a host computer A remote console emulation for a computer system manager operates by transferring video screen images from system memory to the remote console and by inserting keystrokes from the remote console into the system keyboard controller. This emulation constitu... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5434797 | Audio communication system for a computer network A two-way audio communication system is designed to allow basic audio communication between two users on a common computer network. The audio communication system of the present invention is designed to work in the background of the computer, so the user ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5434913 | Audio subsystem for computer-based conferencing system An audio task residing on an audio/communications board of an audio subsystem in a computer conferencing system. An audio manager and an audio applications programming interface reside on a host processor of the computer conferencing system. The audio tas... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5428528 | Portable interactive game system between master/slave units containing detachable memories wherein a master unit downloads a master program to slave units respective detachable memories A communication processing system provided with one parent communication unit, at least one child communication unit, and at least one first detachable unit detachable from the at least one child unit, the system being operated in accordance with an opera... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5408600 | System for dynamic sharing of local and remote displays by maintaining a list of best-match resources A method and apparatus for sharing a local display signal from a local computer display to at least one remote computer display includes generating a connection with the display server associated with the remote computer display in response to a signal fr... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5390316 | Multicomputer complex having a distributed shared memory system for providing a single system view from multiple consoles A computer complex is provided with a mechanism for message delivery and redelivery in a controlled manner through the use of distributed shared memory. This provides a mechanism for overall computer system complex operation from a plurality of consoles w... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5375068 | Video teleconferencing for networked workstations A video teleconferencing method and apparatus for computer workstations connected by a digital data network includes a transmission source portion for a local workstation to send audio and video teleconference data across the network to one or more remote... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5263869 | Interactive group communication system A computerized teaching system is described, which comprises an interactive group communication system, wherein students in a first group interact with a teacher in Social Mode, and, in some case, while students in a second group proceed with work in Inde... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5262869 | Apparatus and method for monitoring a CCTV camera Monitoring apparatus and method for a CCTV monitoring camera, whereby an operation of a zoom lens and upward, downward, left and right rotating operations of the monitoring camera can readily be monitored while the monitoring camera performs a monitoring ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5206934 | Method and apparatus for interactive computer conferencing A method and apparatus for conferencing among a plurality of computers is described. A local user receives inputs containing user actions and data for interpretation as to what the user action is with respect to the data and produces user action outputs. ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5195086 | Multiple call control method in a multimedia conferencing system A method for use in a multimedia conferencing arrangement to control multiple concurrent calls where each call comprises one or more channels. A first call among a first set of user stations and a second call among a second set of user stations are merged... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5136695 | Apparatus and method for updating a remote video display from a host computer Apparatus and a method are disclosed for reducing the transmission power required when a host computer displays video information on a remote video display. A video memory is located in close proximity to the display so that the display can be periodicall... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5034916 | Fast contact conversational video system An improved system (30) provides fast contact in a conversational video system by use of a screen pointer (200) in connection with a windowed display of a financial data page and a unique subscriber identification code with or without an interest message ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5014267 | Video conferencing network A video conferencing network for providing videos, audio, and data communication between remote video terminals. Each of the video terminals transmits and receives video, audio, and data information through the network. The network includes a central swit... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4907146 | Interactive video network between one master computer and a plurality of slave computers A software-independent network which enables interconnection at video and keyboard level between one master computer and several slave computers, and is compatible with computers using either digital or analog video output. Hardware includes a master cont... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4727589 | Picture data storage/retrieval system A plurality of picture data storage/retrieval apparatuses are connected to each other through a communication line. Each picture data storage/retrieval apparatus has a two-dimensional scanning device for inputting picture data, a keyboard for entering con... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4727495 | Data communication system The 16 kbit/s HDLC formatted signalling channel for each of 256 ISDN subscribers is separated from the data channel(s) at the exchange line circuit and TMD multiplexed into a 4 Mbit/s stream provided to a common signalling handler. In the handler, a recei... | 02/23/1988 |
