Patents by Inventor Stephen Botzko
Stephen Botzko 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: 10148909Abstract: A portable immersive telepresence conferencing system which can capture audio data and video data and communicate at least some of the captured data to at least one remote endpoint via a network interface, receive image data and audio data from at least one remote source via the network interface and render a depiction of at least one object, which is substantially the same size of the actual object being shown.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Publication number: 20180027211Abstract: A portable immersive telepresence conferencing system which can capture audio data and video data and communicate at least some of the captured data to at least one remote endpoint via a network interface, receive image data and audio data from at least one remote source via the network interface and render a depiction of at least one object, which is substantially the same size of the actual object being shown.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 9743039Abstract: A portable immersive telepresence conferencing system which can capture audio data and video data and communicate at least some of the captured data to at least one remote endpoint via a network interface, receive image data and audio data from at least one remote source via the network interface and render a depiction of at least one object, which is substantially the same size of the actual object being shown.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 9661376Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for reconstruction video information lost as a result of transmission errors. The system and method have four aspects, including: (1) changing the bit and/or packet rate; (2) inserting redundant information into the video bitstream; (3) providing automatic refresh of certain regions of the video on a periodic basis; and (4) interleaving coded macroblocks into diversity groups for transmission to spatially spread the effect of lost packets. The image reconstruction may then take advantage of these three aspects to provide an enhanced result in the presence of transmission losses.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Botzko, Ilan Yona, Moshe Elbaz, Michael Horowitz
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Publication number: 20170048486Abstract: A portable immersive telepresence conferencing system which can capture audio data and video data and communicate at least some of the captured data to at least one remote endpoint via a network interface, receive image data and audio data from at least one remote source via the network interface and render a depiction of at least one object, which is substantially the same size of the actual object being shown.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 9503689Abstract: A conferencing peripheral for use with a mobile device or laptop or desktop computer can include one or more projectors, cameras, microphones, and speakers. Such a device can work with the mobile device to provide a higher quality conferencing experience than has been provided to date by projecting a substantially full size, high resolution, image of conference participants onto a screen or wall and by providing microphones, speakers, and sufficient audio processing to provide high fidelity audio as part of the conferencing experience. The peripheral may be configured to use the voice and/or data network of the mobile device or may include its own internal network interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Publication number: 20160073057Abstract: A conferencing peripheral for use with a mobile device or laptop or desktop computer can include one or more projectors, cameras, microphones, and speakers. Such a device can work with the mobile device to provide a higher quality conferencing experience than has been provided to date by projecting a substantially full size, high resolution, image of conference participants onto a screen or wall and by providing microphones, speakers, and sufficient audio processing to provide high fidelity audio as part of the conferencing experience. The peripheral may be configured to use the voice and/or data network of the mobile device or may include its own internal network interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 9215406Abstract: A conferencing peripheral for use with a mobile device or laptop or desktop computer can include one or more of projectors, cameras, microphones, and speakers. Such a device can work with the mobile device to provide a higher quality conferencing experience than has been provided to date by projecting a substantially full size, high resolution, image of conference participants onto a screen or wall and by providing microphones, speakers, and sufficient audio processing to provide high fidelity audio as part of the conferencing experience. The peripheral may be configured to use the voice and/or data network of the mobile device or may include its own internal network interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Publication number: 20140267545Abstract: A conferencing peripheral for use with a mobile device or laptop or desktop computer can include one or more of projectors, cameras, microphones, and speakers. Such a device can work with the mobile device to provide a higher quality conferencing experience than has been provided to date by projecting a substantially full size, high resolution, image of conference participants onto a screen or wall and by providing microphones, speakers, and sufficient audio processing to provide high fidelity audio as part of the conferencing experience. The peripheral may be configured to use the voice and/or data network of the mobile device or may include its own internal network interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Gopal Paripally, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 8831932Abstract: Use of a scalable audio codec to implement distributed mixing and/or sender bit rate regulation in a multipoint conference is disclosed. The scalable audio codec allows the audio signal from each endpoint to be split into one or more frequency bands and for the transform coefficients within such bands to be prioritized such that usable audio may be decoded from a subset of the entire signal. The subset may be created by omitting certain frequency bands and/or by omitting certain coefficients within the frequency bands. By providing various rules for each endpoint in a conference, the endpoint can determine the importance of its signal to the conference and can select an appropriate bit rate, thereby conserving bandwidth and/or processing power throughout the conference.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Jinwei Feng, Peter L. Chu, Stephen Botzko
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Patent number: 8493862Abstract: Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Botzko, John Paul Spearman, Richard Flott, Jr., David Hein
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Patent number: 8374236Abstract: An apparatus and method for digital video encoding is disclosed. The disclosed system provides for a way of improving video quality for a given video coding system design.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: John Sievers, Stephen Botzko, David Lindbergh, Charles M. Crisler
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Publication number: 20120290305Abstract: Use of a scalable audio codec to implement distributed mixing and/or sender bit rate regulation in a multipoint conference is disclosed. The scalable audio codec allows the audio signal from each endpoint to be split into one or more frequency bands and for the transform coefficients within such bands to be prioritized such that usable audio may be decoded from a subset of the entire signal. The subset may be created by omitting certain frequency bands and/or by omitting certain coefficients within the frequency bands. By providing various rules for each endpoint in a conference, the endpoint can determine the importance of its signal to the conference and can select an appropriate bit rate, thereby conserving bandwidth and/or processing power throughout the conference.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Jinwei Feng, Peter L. Chu, Stephen Botzko
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Publication number: 20120200663Abstract: An apparatus and method for digital video encoding is disclosed. The disclosed system provides for a way of improving video quality for a given video coding system design.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: John Sievers, Stephen Botzko, David Lindbergh, Charles M. Crisler
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Publication number: 20110096776Abstract: Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: POLYCOM, INCInventors: Stephen Botzko, John Paul Spearman, Richard Flott, JR., David Hein
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Patent number: 7876685Abstract: Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Polycom, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Botzko, John Paul Spearman, Richard Flott, Jr., David Hein
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Publication number: 20090046580Abstract: Devices and techniques for overcoming lost packets and avoiding congestion when conducting media conferences over packet switched networks are described herein. To avoid the problem of lost packets, redundant information is inserted into the media stream that permits the receiver to reconstruct any lost packets from the redundant information. Congestion avoidance techniques include adjusting the bitrate of the media stream to find the highest bitrate that can be supported without packet loss due to congestion. When increasing the bitrate to a higher rate, the additional bits can come from the redundant information used for lost packet recovery so that any lost packets caused by network congestion will not adversely affect the bitstream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: POLYCOM, INCInventors: STEPHEN BOTZKO, JOHN PAUL SPEARMAN, RICHARD FLOTT, JR., DAVID HEIN
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Publication number: 20080267297Abstract: Described herein is a de-blocking filter arrangement for video encoders and decoders that include a de-blocking loop filter. In some embodiments, the post filter may be configured to process all edges that were not processed by the loop filter. In other embodiments the encoder may specify which edges should be processed by the loop filter and/or by the post filter. Also disclosed herein is a de-blocking filter arrangement for video encoders and decoders that include first and second de-blocking loop filters. The second loop filter is configured to operate only on slice boundaries that were not processed by the first loop filter, e.g., for one of the reasons described above.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: POLYCOM, INC.Inventors: Jesus Sampedro, Athar Shah, Stephen Botzko
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Publication number: 20070014360Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for reconstruction video information lost as a result of transmission errors. The system and method have four aspects, including: (1) changing the bit and/or packet rate; (2) inserting redundant information into the video bitstream; (3) providing automatic refresh of certain regions of the video on a periodic basis; and (4) interleaving coded macroblocks into diversity groups for transmission to spatially spread the effect of lost packets. The image reconstruction may then take advantage of these three aspects to provide an enhanced result in the presence of transmission losses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Stephen Botzko, Ilan Yona, Moshe Elbaz, Michael Horowitz
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Publication number: 20050201469Abstract: An apparatus and method for digital video encoding is disclosed. The disclosed system provides for a way of improving video quality for a given video coding system design.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: John Sievers, Stephen Botzko, David Lindbergh, Charles Crisler