Patents by Inventor Noam Eshkoli
Noam Eshkoli 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).
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Patent number: 9035990Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video stream in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which endpoints are associated with which MCU. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Publication number: 20130235147Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video stream in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which endpoints are associated with which MCU. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Patent number: 8456504Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for composing a video layout having an aspect ratio of 16:9 from a plurality of video segments having an aspect ratio other than 16:9. For example, the plurality of video segments might have an aspect ratio of 4:3. To create a composite frame having an aspect ratio of about 16:9, the disclosed system scales each one of the segments and places each scaled segment in the layout in such a way that the composite layout has an aspect ratio of about 16:9.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventor: Noam Eshkoli
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Patent number: 8446451Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video stream in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which endpoints are associated with which MCU. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Ded Gants
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Patent number: 8249144Abstract: A method of delivering a video stream, including encoding a video stream into a first encoded stream and selecting encoding parameter values for subsequent transcoding the first encoded stream into a specific second encoded stream. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting the first encoded stream with the selected encoding parameter values to a transcoder over a standard communication network, transcoding the first encoded stream into a second encoded stream having the selected parameter values and forwarding the second encoded stream.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Imagine Communications Ltd.Inventors: Ron Gutman, Doron Segev, Noam Eshkoli
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Patent number: 8223191Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Elbaz, Noam Eshkoli, Ilan Yona, Aviv Eisenberg
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Patent number: 7884843Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for mixing compressed video useable in a videoconferencing environment having a plurality of endpoint users. Through the use of the method and apparatus, each endpoint can receive a unique layout displaying some subset of the users at the endpoints. Input streams from each endpoint are uncompressed, resized, and scaled to fit the segment in the layout for particular endpoints, and then encoded (or compressed) by a sub-encoder into a sub-encoded stream according to the compression parameters. Each sub-encoded streams is further encoded and associated with a position in the layout. Different layouts may be sent to different conferees, and different compression standards may be used for each endpoint.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Publication number: 20110018960Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video stream in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which endpoints are associated with which MCU. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Publication number: 20110007126Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for composing a video layout having an aspect ratio of 16:9 from a plurality of video segments having an aspect ratio other than 16:9. For example, the plurality of video segments might have an aspect ratio of 4:3. To create a composite frame having an aspect ratio of about 16:9, the disclosed system scales each one of the segments and places each scaled segment in the layout in such a way that the composite layout has an aspect ratio of about 16:9.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventor: Noam Eshkoli
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Patent number: 7800642Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video layout in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which MCU the endpoints are associated with. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Patent number: 7787007Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for composing a video layout having an aspect ratio of 16:9 from a plurality of video segments having an aspect ratio other than 16:9. For example, the plurality of video segments might have an aspect ratio of 4:3. To create a composite frame having an aspect ratio of about 16:9, the disclosed system scales each one of the segments and places each scaled segment in the layout in such a way that the composite layout has an aspect ratio of about 16:9.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventor: Noam Eshkoli
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Patent number: 7679638Abstract: An association of videoconferencing services is disclosed that enables two or more videoconferences to be generated with each videoconference running independently from the others and having its own conferees. The association is achieved by having at least one conferee (a traveler) that can “move” or “travel” from one videoconference to another in the association. The one or more travelers belong to the association and not to any particular videoconference. In exemplary embodiments, the traveler can choose between the various associated videoconferences by making a selection to a multipoint control unit (MCU) that controls the associated videoconferences.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Niv Wagner
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Patent number: 7679640Abstract: New videoconferencing services and methods for handling the video and audio of one or more sub-conferences running in parallel to a main videoconference are disclosed. In exemplary embodiment, a multipoint control unit (MCU) that controls one or more videoconferences may be requested by a conferee of a videoconference (a main videoconference) to establish a sub-conference according to a requester mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Niv Wagner
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Publication number: 20100008421Abstract: A method of delivering a video stream, including encoding a video stream into a first encoded stream and selecting encoding parameter values for subsequent transcoding the first encoded stream into a specific second encoded stream. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting the first encoded stream with the selected encoding parameter values to a transcoder over a standard communication network, transcoding the first encoded stream into a second encoded stream having the selected parameter values and forwarding the second encoded stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2008Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: Imagine Communication Ltd.Inventors: Ron Gutman, Doron Segev, Noam Eshkoli
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Publication number: 20090284581Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: POLYCOM ISRAEL LTD.Inventors: MOSHE ELBAZ, NOAM ESHKOLI, ILAN YONA, Aviv Eisenberg
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Patent number: 7542068Abstract: In an embodiment, a videoconference system is provided in which a conference can be controlled by an end user (e.g., a participant of the conference) without the assistance of an operator. In another embodiment, the end user is presented with a graphical feature on an image associated with an ongoing conference that links to a menu, which in turn links to routines for selecting various options that change the setup of the conference. In yet another embodiment, the parameters of the conference can be changed while the conference is ongoing. In a further embodiment, the conference control unit includes a menu generator. Any combination of the above embodiments can be used together in one embodiment.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Moshe Elbaz
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Patent number: 7535485Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for reducing delay in video communication, including, for example, video transcoding and continuous presence in a multipoint multimedia conference. The video communication control unit reduces such delay by processing a video stream in a small number of macroblocks referred to as “chunks,” without waiting to get a full frame of video data. Instead, the incoming video stream is converted into decoded chunks. These decoded chunks are transferred to an output module without waiting to decode an entire frame. An encoder in the output module encodes the decoded chunks (also referred to as encoder chunks), and transfers them to an end user without waiting for the entire frame to be processed. Thus, reducing the delay in waiting for the entire frame of video data provides improved real-time video communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Elbaz, Noam Eshkoli, Ilan Yona, Aviv Eisenberg
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Publication number: 20090052540Abstract: A method of preprocessing a video stream including receiving a video stream formed of a sequence of blocks and setting one or more quality level constraints for the video stream. The method further includes selecting for each of at least a plurality of the blocks of the video stream, one or more sets of compression parameters for compressing the block, such that the block compressed according to the set of parameters meets a respective quality level constraint set for the video stream and generating for each of the sets of compression parameters a corresponding data unit representing the block compressed by the set of compression parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Imagine Communication Ltd.Inventors: Ron Gutman, Doron Segev, Noam Eshkoli, Lorenzo Bombelli, Yves Bouoreau
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Publication number: 20070206089Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing continuous presence video layout in a cascading video conference, i.e., a video conference that is conducted over more than one MCU. A cascading continuous presence composition controller (CCCC) selects which endpoints from among all of the endpoints participating in the conference should be displayed in the layout, regardless of which MCU the endpoints are associated with. The CCCC can be resident on one of the MCUs, resident on a cascading conference server, or can be distributed among all of the MCUs involved in a cascading conference.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Noam Eshkoli, Oded Gants
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Publication number: 20070120967Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for mixing compressed video useable in a videoconferencing environment having a plurality of endpoint users. Through the use of the method and apparatus, each endpoint can receive a unique layout displaying some subset of the users at the endpoints. Input streams from each endpoint are uncompressed, resized, and scaled to fit the segment in the layout for particular endpoints, and then encoded (or compressed) by a sub-encoder into a sub-encoded stream according to the compression parameters. Each sub-encoded streams is further encoded and associated with a position in the layout. Different layouts may be sent to different conferees, and different compression standards may be used for each endpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: NOAM ESHKOLI, ODED GANTS