Joseph T Friel

7507900, Mar 24, 2009

Sep 1, 2006

11/469797

Andrew P. Weir - Malvern PA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
Guido Van den Berghe - Aartselaar, BE

QRS Music Technologies, Inc. - Naples FL

G10H 1/36
G06F 1/04

84610, 713500

The invention disclosed herein is a system and method for playing music sequences, such as MIDI files in synchronization with a DVD. This system utilizes a preauthored music sequence and a controller that listens to the S/PDIF output of a DVD player. Further, this application discloses a method for creating MIDI files for use with the invention disclosed herein.

8077772, Dec 13, 2011

Nov 9, 2007

11/937947

J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
Maurice J. Buttimer - Media PA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04B 1/66
H04N 7/12

37524001, 37524003, 37524016

A method, an apparatus, and a method to encode a block in a picture of a time sequence of pictures such as video. The method includes selecting the mode for coding the block, one of the modes being to code the block as skipped. The method further includes limiting the number of consecutive times a particular block is coded as skipped without re-setting the quantization level to a relatively fine level of quantization and re-selecting the mode.

8086076, Dec 27, 2011

Feb 14, 2008

12/031590

Dihong Tian - San Jose CA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US
Wen-hsiung Chen - Sunnyvale CA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06K 9/54
H04N 7/12
G06K 9/36

382304, 37524024, 382232

An apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable medium having instructions encoded thereon that when executed cause a method to be carried out. The method includes dividing at least a portion of a picture of a video stream into parts of blocks, and processing the parts in parallel by a plurality of interconnected processors. The processing of a respective part by its respective processor includes determining block-level temporal difference features. Each processor also performs coding functions on its respective part of the picture. The method also includes block-level processing using the block-level temporal difference features to determine which blocks in the picture are likely to be that of a face, the block-level processing being at the granularity of at least a block. In one version, the processing in each processor includes edge detection and color segmentation to determine block-level edge features including block-level color-segmented edge features that are then used in the block level processing.

8111331, Feb 7, 2012

Jul 9, 2007

11/774703

Michael A. Arnao - Collegeville PA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04N 9/74

348581, 348556, 348445, 345667, 345668

An apparatus embodiment is operative to scale video and includes an input buffer coupled to a real time source of video data and configured to hold a number of lines of video, a horizontal resizer coupled to the input buffer to resize lines of image data, outputting horizontally scaled line(s) to an intermediate buffer configured to store a number of lines. The apparatus has a vertical resizer coupled to the intermediate buffer configured to output vertically and horizontally resized lines of image data. At any given time, some of the lines in the input buffer are scheduled using the DMA controller for replacement via DMA by lines generated by the source of video data, and some or all of the remaining lines in the input buffer are available for processing by the horizontal resizer. A sufficient number of lines are available in the intermediate buffer, such that in operation, the intermediate buffer need not introduce latency.

8218831, Jul 10, 2012

Jun 30, 2008

12/164292

Dihong Tian - San Jose CA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US
Maurice J. Buttimer - Media PA, US
Wen-hsiung Chen - Sunnyvale CA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06K 9/00
G06K 9/72
G06K 9/62

382118, 348143, 382170, 382231, 382225, 382162

Techniques are provided to analyze video frames of a video signal in order to distinguish regions containing a face (and body torso) from regions that contain a relatively static background. The region containing the face is referred to as a foreground region. A current video frame is divided into a plurality of elements and the foreground regions and background regions are detected. The background regions of a subsequent video frame are detected/registered using the foreground regions of the current video frame. The foreground regions of the subsequent video frame are determined using the background regions of the current video frame as a temporal reference.

8270307, Sep 18, 2012

Sep 5, 2008

12/205486

Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
Dihong Tian - San Jose CA, US
J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US
Maurice Buttimer - Media PA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04L 12/26

370242, 370468

A network-adaptive error recovery method for real-time video transmission based on sending repair frames preemptively with a frequency that is based on observed run-length of good frames and round trip time.

8319819, Nov 27, 2012

Mar 26, 2008

12/055861

Alan J. MacDonald - Malvern PA, US
J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US
David W. Sowa - Exton PA, US
Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04N 7/14

348 1409, 348 1401

A system and method for creating a virtual round table videoconference is described. An embodiment of the system comprises a plurality of displays arranged in an arc configuration with a table to create a virtual round table. Cameras are arranged around the plurality of displays such that when a participant looks at a display with an image of a remote participant, the camera associated with the display captures an image of the participant's gaze, making eye contact with the camera. The image is displayed at the remote participant's endpoint creating the effect of eye contact between the participants. In another embodiment, audio speakers are arranged to provide directional sound such that the video source for a display and the audio source for the associated speaker are from the same endpoint.

8358328, Jan 22, 2013

Nov 20, 2008

12/275119

Joseph T. Friel - Ardmore PA, US
J. William Mauchly - Berwyn PA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04N 7/15

348 1408, 348 1401

A method, an apparatus, and a storage medium with executable code to execute a method including accepting camera views of at least some participants of a teleconference, each view from a corresponding video camera, with the camera views together including at least one view of each participant. The method includes accepting audio from a plurality of microphones, and processing the audio from the plurality of microphones to generate audio data and direction information indicative of the direction of sound received at the microphones. The method further includes generating one or more candidate people views, with each people view being of an area enclosing a head and shoulders view of at least one participant. The method also includes making a selection, according to the direction information, of which at least one of the candidate people views are to be transmitted to one or more remote endpoints.