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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2006
Alexandros Eleftheriadis, New York, NY (US);
Ofer Shapiro, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Thomas Wiegand, Berlin, DE;
Jacob Chakareski, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Alexandros Eleftheriadis, New York, NY (US);
Ofer Shapiro, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Thomas Wiegand, Berlin, DE;
Jacob Chakareski, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for videoconferencing are provided. The systems use scalable video coding techniques and a compositing scalable video coding server (CSVCS) to composite input video signals from transmitting conferencing participants into one single output video signal forwarded to a receiving participant. The server is configured to composite the input video signals pictures without decoding, rescaling, and re-encoding of the signals.