Bernd Assignee Girod, Age 66790 Mayfield Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94305

7324444, Jan 29, 2008

Mar 5, 2003

10/383215

Yi Liang - Palo Alto CA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

H04J 1/16
H04J 3/14

370230, 3702301, 370235, 3703954

A method of adapting a playout schedule of a stream of media packets according to network and channel conditions includes (a) setting a playout schedule for a next packet i+1 of the stream upon receiving a current packet i; (b) computing a length of the current packet i based at least in part on a target playout schedule for the next packet i+1; (c) scaling packet i if necessary; (d) outputting packet i; and (e) updating the playout schedule for next packet i+1 based at least in part on the playout schedule and the length of current packet i.

RE40054, Feb 12, 2008

Nov 19, 2004

10/994220

Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US

8×8, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

H04N 3/00

348 1412, 37940608, 3794061, 381 711, 381 7112, 381104

A circuit arrangement for controlling audio signal transmissions for a communications system that includes a microphone and a video camera. The arrangement comprises a video processor configured and arranged to receive a video signal from the video camera, detect movement of an object in the video signal, and provide a motion-indicating signal indicating movement relative to the object. An audio processor is coupled to the video processor and is configured and arranged to modify the audio signal to be transmitted responsive to the motion-indicating signal. In another embodiment, a video signal processor is configured and arranged to receive a video signal from the video camera, detect mouth movement of a person and provide a mouth-movement signal indicative of movement of the person's mouth. An echo-cancellation circuit is coupled to the video signal processor and configured and arranged to filter from an audio signal provided by the microphone sound energy output by the speaker responsive to the mouth-movement signal.

7929021, Apr 19, 2011

Sep 22, 2006

11/534218

Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan - Camas WA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US

Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. - Camas WA

H04N 5/232

3482112, 3482115

Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for input device to television networking.

7969997, Jun 28, 2011

Nov 3, 2006

11/592776

Jeonghun Noh - Stanford CA, US
Eric E. Setton - Palo Alto CA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56
G06F 15/16

370408, 370256, 709231

Packet-based delivery of video content is facilitated using a peer-to-peer network. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a packet-based video stream is passed over a peer-to-peer network, with the packets in the stream scheduled and delivered in accordance with a priority assigned to the packets; this priority is based upon a determined or estimated effect that the packet will have upon video quality at a recipient peer. In some applications, the packets are temporally spaced to mitigate congestion and/or distortion of video associated with congestion in the delivery of the packets.

8300693, Oct 30, 2012

Jan 17, 2006

11/332309

Markus Flierl - Palo Alto CA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US
Pierre Vandergheynst - Pully, CH

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne - Lausanne
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

H04N 7/50

37524016, 37524012, 37524018

A method is disclosed for decomposing a set of even and odd pictures into low-band and high-band pictures respectively in a image decomposing unit, in which the even picture is used by at least two prediction motion compensators on which the output signal of each prediction motion compensator is scaled according to the number of prediction motion compensators. The method includes calculating the high-band picture by subtracting from the odd picture the scaled motion-compensated signals and using the high-band picture in the at least two update motion compensators, the output signal of each update motion compensator being scaled according to the number of update motion compensators. Finally, the low-band picture is calculated by adding the scaled update motion-compensated signals to the even picture.

8346000, Jan 1, 2013

Jul 31, 2008

12/183991

Markus H. Flierl - Auerbach, DE
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

G06K 9/46
G06K 9/36

382248, 382236

A variety of methods, devices, systems and arrangements are implemented for processing and coding of video images. According to one such implementation, a method is implemented for encoding a sequence of images. A plurality of orthogonal transforms is implemented on a set of N images, where N is greater than one. The images are linked by motion fields that include sets of respective portions of the images. In particular, the construction of a motion-compensated orthogonal transform is accomplished for the important case where at least one portion of any of the N images—or any part of this portion—is used more than once to motion-compensate other portions of the N images—or parts thereof.

8392201, Mar 5, 2013

Jul 30, 2010

12/847480

Jeonghun Noh - Palo Alto CA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US
Peter Pogrzeba - Berlin, DE
Sachin Kumar Agarwal - Berlin, DE
Jatinder Pal Singh - Mountain View CA, US

Deutsche Telekom AG - Bonn
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Stanford CA

G10L 19/00
G10L 19/02

704500, 704205, 370469, 709231

A method for streaming audio data in a network, the audio data having a sequence of samples, includes encoding the sequence of samples into a plurality of coded base bitstreams, generating a plurality of enhancement streams, and transmitting the coded base bitstreams and the enhancement bitstreams to a receiver for decoding. Each of the enhancement bitstreams is generated from one of a plurality of non-overlapping portions of the sequence of samples.

8553520, Oct 8, 2013

Feb 25, 2011

13/034714

Badri N. Rajasekar - San Francisco CA, US
Gaurav Gupta - San Francisco CA, US
Bernd Girod - Stanford CA, US
Yang Cao - Campbell CA, US

H04J 3/10

370201, 370260, 370261, 370263, 37920201

A system and method for performing echo suppression on a server in browser-based online audio conferences without downloading or installing software on a participant's computing device is disclosed. Streams of audio communication data from the participants in an audio conference are received at the server. An echo suppression application determines the first party that speaks by analyzing the streams to locate speech data, and assigns that party as the “owner” of the audio channel. The speech data is sent to the other participants in the conference. The application then determines whether newly received audio from the owner of the channel is new speech; if so, then the party remains the owner of the channel, and the new speech data is also sent to the other parties in the conference. The channel is surrendered if no new speech is received from the owner in a defined period, and the next party that speaks becomes the new owner of the channel. The other audio data from the participants is replaced by silence.