Patents by Inventor Bernd O. Christiansen

Bernd O. Christiansen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8922617
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an attendee of a live online meeting selects screen data from an earlier point in time in the online meeting for playback while the meeting is still ongoing. Automatically generated image thumbnails of the screen data for the online meeting may be employed to navigate to the earlier point in time. Attendees may annotate screenshots associated with the thumbnails, and a summary document may be generated that includes the screenshots and the annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Alexandrov, Bernd O. Christiansen, Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli
  • Patent number: 6983020
    Abstract: A method, system, and/or apparatus for quickly detecting blocks or regions in an image whose pixels that can be coded efficiently by a pointer to the same block occurring in a reference image. The reference image is shared between an encoder and a corresponding decoder. One embodiment of the encoder quickly detects such blocks in an image by: (a) defining features such that substantially fewer features occur in an image than pixels, (b) correlating features in an image to a corresponding feature in the reference image, (c) estimating a displacement vector representative of the displacement of the correlated features, (d) estimating a seed point within the displaced block from which to grow the block, and (e) growing the displaced block to determine its size, shape, and/or dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Citrix Online LLC
    Inventor: Bernd O. Christiansen
  • Publication number: 20030179951
    Abstract: A method, system, and/or apparatus for quickly detecting blocks or regions in an image whose pixels that can be coded efficiently by a pointer to the same block occurring in a reference image. The reference image is shared between an encoder and a corresponding decoder. One embodiment of the encoder quickly detects such blocks in an image by: (a) defining features such that substantially fewer features occur in an image than pixels, (b) correlating features in an image to a corresponding feature in the reference image, (c) estimating a displacement vector representative of the displacement of the correlated features, (d) estimating a seed point within the displaced block from which to grow the block, and (e) growing the displaced block to determine its size, shape, and/or dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventor: Bernd O. Christiansen