135 patents
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Utility
Enhanced Person Detection Using Face Recognition and Reinforced, Segmented Field Inferencing
14 Oct 21
The frame or image of a video stream of a videoconference is divided into a series of segments for analysis.
Rommel Gabriel Childress, JR., Alain Elon Nimri, Stephen Paul Schaefer
Filed: 13 Oct 20
Utility
Tabletop Microphone Assembly
30 Sep 21
A tabletop microphone assembly is provided that exhibits improved spatial audio pick-up characteristics, for example for use as an extension microphone for a conference system.
Wayne Stanley Foletta, Yanling Wang, Hui Luo
Filed: 14 Dec 20
Utility
Voice Signal Enhancement For Head-Worn Audio Devices
9 Sep 21
A head-worn audio device is provided with a circuit for voice signal enhancement.
Shridhar K. Mukund, Pamornpol Jinachitra
Filed: 25 May 21
Utility
Differentiating a Rendered Conference Participant from a Genuine Conference Participant
2 Sep 21
A videoconferencing device at an endpoint determines whether a person is a real person standing in front of a display device or if the person is instead an image rendered by a display device.
Hailin SONG, Hai XU, Xi LU, Fangpo XU
Filed: 10 May 21
Utility
Detecting and Tracking a Subject of Interest In a Teleconference
29 Jul 21
A method of view selection in a teleconferencing environment includes receiving a frame of image data from an optical sensor such as a camera, detecting one or more conference participants within the frame of image data, and identifying an interest region for each of the conference participants.
David A. BRYAN, Wei-Cheng SU, Stephen Paul SCHAEFER, Alain Elon NIMRI, Casey KING
Filed: 17 Mar 21
Utility
Context Based Target Framing In a Teleconferencing Environment
29 Jul 21
A method for determining camera framing in a teleconferencing system comprises a process loop which includes acquiring an audio-visual frame from a captured a video data frame; detecting objects and extracting image features of the objects within the video data frame, ingesting the audio-visual frame into a context-based audio-visual map in an intelligent manner, and selecting targets from within the map for inclusion in an audio-video stream for transmission to a remote endpoint.
Rommel Gabriel CHILDRESS, JR., Alain Elon NIMRI, Stephen Paul SCHAEFER, David Young
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Long-term Reference for Error Recovery In Video Conferencing System
8 Jul 21
Utilizing two LTR frames for improved error recovery.
Jian David Wang, John Paul Spearman, Stephen C. Botzko
Filed: 6 Jan 20
Utility
Analytics and Device Management Platform for Human Interaction
8 Jul 21
An analytics and device management platform includes a computer processor and instructions executing on the computer processor and causing the platform to obtain metrics from at least one endpoint.
Daniel Paul Lange, Jeffrey Charles Adams, Eric Jay Nylander
Filed: 31 Dec 20
Utility
Forking Transmit and Receive Call Audio Channels
17 Jun 21
A method is disclosed for forking call audio channels.
Robert J. Kelly, Arun Rajasekaran, Nicholas K. Eisner
Filed: 25 Feb 21
Utility
Audio Device And Method Of Audio Processing With Improved Talker Discrimination
20 May 21
An audio device for improved talker discrimination is provided.
Iain McNEILL, Matthew Nunes Neves, Gavin Radolan
Filed: 1 Feb 21
Utility
Magnetometer-based Lens Cap Detection
6 May 21
A video system includes a camera, at least one magnet providing a magnetic field, a magnetometer, and a processing system.
Alvin I. Okunami, Denis Sychev
Filed: 29 Oct 20
Utility
Systems and Methods for Managing Wireless Packet Communications by Assigning Separate Resources for Sequential Transmission Attempts
6 May 21
Systems and methods are provided for managing multiple wireless links, e.g., between base stations and wireless headsets.
Jacobus Cornelis HAARTSEN
Filed: 12 Jan 21
Utility
Secure Call Endpoint Pairing
8 Apr 21
A method for secure call endpoint pairing is disclosed.
Shantanu Sarkar
Filed: 20 Nov 20
Utility
Interrupt Based Pairing for Wireless Audio Devices
1 Apr 21
A method for interrupt based pairing for wireless audio devices includes determining a colocation of a wireless audio device with a subsequent wireless audio device with one or more sensors.
Victoria Pires, Hua Zhao, Yu Zhang
Filed: 11 Dec 20
Utility
System and Method of Dynamic, Natural Camera Transitions in an Electronic Camera
1 Apr 21
Scene changes that are done pleasingly and without user input or control.
Rommel Gabriel Childress, JR., Alain Elon Nimri, Stephen Paul Schaefer
Filed: 14 Aug 20
Utility
Head-Worn Device with Adjustable Headband Clamp
25 Feb 21
Terry M Carr, Xiaoyang Yu
Filed: 22 Aug 19
Utility
Stand for Desktop Phone
18 Feb 21
A stand includes a neck, a base coupled to a first end of the neck, and a receiving interface located at a second end of the neck.
Hector Rodriguez, Anthony Martin Duys, Nathan Yang, Gabriela Vargas
Filed: 16 Aug 19
Utility
Systems and Methods for Providing Safe Battery Removal from a Flash Memory Based Electronic Device
18 Feb 21
A system for managing a battery removal from an electronic device is provided.
Ryan Douglas Rocha, Thomas G. Criswell, Jesus Arias Duarte, Anfeng Yin
Filed: 12 Aug 19
Utility
Neckband Headset with Noise Rejection
11 Feb 21
A communication headset includes a neckband with a horseshoe-shaped footprint and two microphone tips disposed at two ends of the neckband, the two ends establishing an aperture of the horseshoe-shaped footprint.
Cheng Liu, John A Kelley, Wen Song, John S. Graham
Filed: 6 Aug 19
Utility
Detecting Spoofing Talker in a Videoconference
4 Feb 21
A videoconferencing device at an endpoint determines whether a person is a real person standing in front of a display device or if the person is instead an image rendered by a display device.
Hailin Song, Hai Xu, Xi Lu, Fangpo Xu
Filed: 30 Jul 20