51 patents
Utility
Context based annotating in an electronic presentation system
29 Nov 22
A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display.
Alain Nimri, Shu Gao, Stephen Schaefer, Robert Murphy, Daniel Palmer
Filed: 6 Jun 17
Utility
Multimedia composition in meeting spaces
15 Nov 22
Functions and controls for multimedia sessions are shared amongst pluralities of electronic components, rather than run by a single control unit.
Greg Pelton
Filed: 25 Jun 18
Utility
Method and system for conducting video conferences of diverse participating devices
15 Nov 22
A novel universal bridge (UB) can handle and conduct multimedia multipoint conferences between a plurality of MREs and LEPs without using an MRM, an MCU and a gateway.
Avishay Halavy
Filed: 14 Apr 21
Utility
Joint use of face, motion, and upper-body detection in group framing
6 Sep 22
A videoconferencing endpoint is described that uses a combination of face detection, motion detection, and upper body detection for selecting participants of a videoconference for group framing.
Tianran Wang, Wenxue He, Lidan Qin, Hai Xu
Filed: 22 Nov 18
Utility
System and method for providing secure cloud-based access and control of cloud based content sources to community devices via federated authorization and personal devices
9 Aug 22
Content is shared by rendering the content in a shared session and providing the rendered content to the participating devices.
Mike Tucker, Eric Hyman, Dragan Ignjatic
Filed: 4 Jun 18
Utility
Pairing devices in conference using ultrasonic beacon and subsequent control thereof
24 May 22
A videoconferencing system has a videoconferencing unit that use portable devices as peripherals for the system.
Peter L. Chu, Yibo Liu
Filed: 29 Oct 20
Utility
Acoustic perimeter for reducing noise transmitted by a communication device in an open-plan environment
18 Jan 22
The amount of far-field noise transmitted by a primary communication device in an open-plan office environment is reduced by defining an acoustic perimeter of reference microphones around the primary device.
Kwan K. Truong, Peter L. Chu, Steven L. Potts, Eric Elias
Filed: 30 Oct 20
Utility
Adaptive volume control using speech loudness gesture
11 Jan 22
A conferencing endpoint includes a loudspeaker component, a base microphone, and an adaptive volume control module which evaluates near-end audio conditions at a conferencing endpoint and automatically determines whether to change the audio volume at a near-end loudspeaker.
Subramanyam Irukuvajhula, Ravi Kiran Nalla, Satyanarayana Mantri
Filed: 15 May 18
Utility
Natural language processing while sound sensor is muted
30 Nov 21
A method includes generating first audio data based on sound detected by a sound sensor at a first time.
Subramanyam Irukuvajhula, Ravi Kiran Nalla
Filed: 25 Oct 18
Utility
Collaboratively controlling display of information across multiple displays
16 Nov 21
Systems and methods for collaboratively controlling the display of information across multiple displays is disclosed.
Alain Elon Nimri, Junqing Shao, Shu Gao, Rob Murphy, Stephen Schaefer
Filed: 3 Sep 20
Utility
Pairing devices in conference using ultrasonic beacon and subsequent control thereof
19 Oct 21
A videoconferencing system has a videoconferencing unit that use portable devices as peripherals for the system.
Peter L. Chu, Yibo Liu
Filed: 16 Jul 20
Utility
Identifying a valid wake input
27 Jul 21
A device includes one or more processor devices, an audio sensor, a speaker device, and one or more memory devices.
Kwan Truong, Cody Schnacker, Jesse Coleman
Filed: 23 Oct 18
Utility
Method and system for conducting video conferences of diverse participating devices
11 May 21
A novel universal bridge (UB) can handle and conduct multimedia multipoint conferences between a plurality of MREs and LEPs without using an MRM, an MCU and a gateway.
Avishay Halavy
Filed: 12 Sep 19
Utility
Dynamically adjusting common mode rejection ratio
23 Mar 21
A circuit having a dynamically adjustable common mode rejection ratio.
Jarrod Lumpkin
Filed: 25 Jun 19
Utility
Reverse call forking
16 Mar 21
A technique for merging conference session dialogs allows presenting content and media streams from a non-Skype endpoint to a Skype multipoint control unit (MCU), so that they present a single caller in a conference with both media and content.
Jozef Saniga, Jeffrey Adams, Eric Nylander
Filed: 29 Mar 18
Utility
Advanced audio feedback reduction utilizing adaptive filters and nonlinear processing
2 Mar 21
Traditional audio feedback elimination systems may attempt to reduce the effect of the audio feedback by simply scaling down the audio volume of the signal frequencies that are prone to howling.
Kwan Truong, Peter L. Chu
Filed: 6 May 19
Utility
People detection method for auto-framing and tracking in a video conference
2 Mar 21
A videoconference apparatus and method coordinates a stationary view obtained with a stationary camera to an adjustable view obtained with an adjustable camera.
Xiangdong Wang, Yibo Liu, Jinwei Feng, Edmund Thompson, Peter Chu
Filed: 10 Jan 20
Utility
System and methods for automatic call initiation based on biometric data
26 Jan 21
A videoconferencing endpoint can provides a caller with the ability to make unscheduled video calls to a callee without having knowledge of dialing information of a videoconferencing endpoint where the callee is currently located.
Yaakov Moshe Rosenberg
Filed: 18 Oct 18
Utility
Relaying multimedia conferencing utilizing software defined networking architecture
12 Jan 21
Various embodiments for implementing a multimedia conference session utilizing a software defined networking (SDN) architecture are described.
Lior Baram
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
System and method for collaborative telepresence amongst non-homogeneous endpoints
7 Dec 20
A telepresence system which includes at least one display device and a beacon coupled to the display device.
Matvey Digilov, Amir Levy, Marek Dutkiewicz, Thomas Quentin Brady, Mike Tucker, Moshe Noah Lipsker, Anat Levy
Filed: 22 Aug 19