Image and Video Compression (MPEG) Expert Witness #1262
Expert has over thirty-five years of technical, business and intellectual property rights experience in digital imaging, video and audio. In the 1970`s and early 1980`s, he was one of the leaders in the digital imaging field, performing extensive work in areas of compression, real-time processing, real-time display, image enhancement, and others. Applications included reconnaissance imaging, medical imaging, earth resources management and videoconferencing. This work anticipated much of the technology being used in contemporary consumer digital video systems. He has in-depth experience of the commercial history and when key parts of technology were first developed and published.
Expert has held many leadership roles in standards development: including MPEG, MPEG1 standard; instigator of successful effort to make MPEG2 the market standard for digital TV over proprietary competitors in the US and national competitors in Europe and Japan; MPEG4; AVS Subgroup. He is an expert in all major audio-video standards. MPEG audio (Layer I, II, mp3, AAC), Dolby AC3, MPEG video (1, 2, 4), H.264, Windows Media 9 (VC-1), and AVS. He is also an expert in DVD standards, including formatting, navigation and authoring.
Expert has authored over twenty technical papers, two book chapters and two patents in digital video processing, display, and compression. He is an experienced patent litigation expert with deposition and court experience. He is a patent holder with a Ph.D. in Physical Electronics.