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20090070692 | Method For Networked Touchscreen With Integrated Interfaces - An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network that with remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system includes a touchscreen providing security keypad functionality as well as content management and presentation, and is used as a security system interface and an interface for interacting with a network. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video or pictures and control home devices via a personal web portal, mobile phone, or other client device. Users can receive notifications of detected events via electronic message. | 03-12-2009 |
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20090109988 | Video Decoder with an Adjustable Video Clock - A method, an apparatus, and logic encoded in a computer-readable medium to carry out a method. The method includes receiving packets containing compressed video information, storing the received packets in a buffer memory, timestamping the received packets according to an adjustable clock; and removing packets from the buffer for decoding and playout of the video information, the removing according to playback order and at a time determined by the adjustable clock. The method includes adjusting the adjustable clock from time to time according to a measure the amount of time that the packets reside in the buffer memory, such that time latency caused by the buffer memory is limited. An overrun or an underrun of the buffer memory is unlikely. | 04-30-2009 |
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20090315971 | System and Method for Providing a Perception of a Continuous Surface in a Telepresence System - A method for preventing movement in a telepresence system, includes a plurality of cameras. Each camera has a respective field of vision for viewing one or more users. The fields of vision each have lateral boundaries. The system also includes a plurality of restrictive elements. Each restrictive element is positioned along a respective lateral boundary of a field of vision of the fields of vision of the plurality of cameras such that viewed users each positioned within a field of vision of the plurality of cameras are restricted by the plurality of restrictive elements from moving outside of the field of vision in which each viewed user is positioned. | 12-24-2009 |
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20110018959 | Automatic Display Latency Measurement System for Video Conferencing - Methods and systems that compensate for display latency when separate speakers are used during video conferencing. A method includes determining whether speakers, which are not controlled by a display, are to be used in connection with a video conferencing session. The method further includes sending, to the display, data that causes the display to generate a predetermined pattern, capturing imagery of the effects of the predetermined pattern shown on the display, calculating a latency of the display based on a difference in a time the data was sent and the imagery of the effects is received, and storing a value of the latency of the display in a device that enables the video conferencing. When the speakers, which are not controlled by the display are selected, are selected, the audio portion of the video conferencing session is redirected to those speakers, but delayed for an amount of time substantially equivalent to the value of the latency of the display. In this way audio and video synchronization may be improved. | 01-27-2011 |
20120120270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED AUDIO IN A VIDEO ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example and includes receiving audio data at a microphone array that includes a plurality of microphones. The microphone array is provisioned at a first endpoint, which includes a camera element configured to capture video data associated with a video session involving the first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method also includes formatting the audio data into a time division multiplex (TDM) stream, and communicating the stream to a port for a subsequent communication over a network and to the second endpoint. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127257 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING OPTICS IN A VIDEO ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus is provided in one example and includes a camera configured to receive image data associated with an end user involved in a video session. The apparatus further includes a display configured to interface with the camera. The camera and the display cooperate such that the apparatus can initiate the video session involving the end user, and activate a retracting mechanism configured to move the camera such that the camera is retracted from a view of the display and the camera moves to an inactive state. | 05-24-2012 |
20130016177 | System and Method for Providing a Perception of a Continuous Surface in a Telepresence System - A method for preventing movement in a telepresence system, includes a plurality of cameras. Each camera has a respective field of vision for viewing one or more users. The fields of vision each have lateral boundaries. The system also includes a plurality of restrictive elements. Each restrictive element is positioned along a respective lateral boundary of a field of vision of the fields of vision of the plurality of cameras such that viewed users each positioned within a field of vision of the plurality of cameras are restricted by the plurality of restrictive elements from moving outside of the field of vision in which each viewed user is positioned. | 01-17-2013 |