Patent ID: 7885330
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A videoconference computer program product, comprising computer readable program instructions that are stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the program product for use with a videoconference system having at least one processor for compressing video data, the program instructions when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to carry out steps of: determining processor performance data for the at least one processor; determining a video data acquisition rate; using said processor performance data and said video data acquisition rate to identify a video data compression setting to use during the communications session; wherein the step of using said processor performance data and said video data acquisition rate comprises referring to data stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium that relates processor performance to a corresponding data compression setting for a plurality of different processors and a plurality of different compression settings; wherein said stored data is in units of one or more of a time required to perform a motion vector search for a given search area using a given processor family and speed, and processor resources required to compress a specified size of data.