Jack D. Grimes, Ph.D.
Dr. Grimes has over 35 years experience in the computer, Internet and video graphics industries with ServiceHub, Visa International, ICVerify, Taligent, Mass Microsystems, Intel, IT&T, and Tektronix. Mr. Grimes has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet commerce, Java, ASP, Unix, NT, scalability, security and payments, data security, chip cards, credit and debit cards, SET and ACH methods, computer graphics and TV video platforms, video capture and overlay systems, video display devices, ASIC design, compressed video, digital satellite TV technologies, and various internet platform architectures. He has developed Internet technology architecture with wireless data to SMS and browsers for mobile phones, chip card technology for Visa with internet payment systems, object-oriented applications for IBM, Apple and HP, video peripherals and graphic ASIC`s. Dr. Grimes has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving payment systems, computer systems and displays, e-commerce, automated trading systems, ASIC`s, LCD panel controllers, remote image capture, wireless technology, 3D graphics, CRT monitors, power saving circuits, and video display and graphic systems. Dr. Grimes has testified in numerous ITC, Markman and Federal patent cases and has published many articles in the aforementioned technologies. He received BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1965, 1968 and 1970, respectively and a MS degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1981. View Full CV

Stephen B. Heppe, Ph.D.
Dr. Heppe has over 25 years experience in the area of communications engineering with General Electric Space Division, Stanford Telecommunications, Telenergy and the Insitu Group. Dr. Heppe has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in satellite communications, GPS/cellular and radio technologies, CATV user interfaces, cell networks, GSM and Voice over IP (VoIP). He has developed aircraft avionics, including data radios, GPS navigation, satellite communications, video processing, RF transmission and sensors and flight control, as well as VHF radio communications protocol for aircraft networking, spectrum engineering for satellite communications (Globalstar), mobile satellite systems and various space based Government systems including Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), the Strategic Defense System (SDS), spaced based radar (SBR), Milstar, NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRSS), various naval satellite systems and the network for the US Air Force Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC). Dr. Heppe is familiar with GPS position and velocity determination for aircraft, spacecraft and ground vehicles, differential GPS and automatic dependent surveillance (ADS), navigation accuracy determination, flight testing hardware and software and protocol development and signal processing. Dr. Heppe has testified in numerous patent cases and in an ITC matter. He has published several articles and holds 2 US patents in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BSEE degree (Computer Science emphasis) from Princeton University in 1977 and his MS and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications emphasis) from George Washington University in 1982 and 1989, respectively. View Full CV

Michael J. Potel, Ph.D.
Dr. Potel has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Taligent, Apple Computer and the University of Chicago. Dr. Potel has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet commerce, Java, Internet software, User Interfaces, 3D Imaging, personal computing, object-oriented systems, computer graphics, software IP and various operating systems. He has developed products with Java and C++ class libraries, tools and component based groupware, Apple Computer-Macintosh products, OS, QuickTime, QuickDraw, TrueType, AppleScript, MAC ROM`s, multimedia products and Apple II, graphics cards, video, sound and speech cards and chips, RISC, Apple MIDI interface and various systems applications. Dr. Potel has been an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving graphics projection systems, 3D graphic and video processors, printer halftone dithering technology, web servers, e-commerce, browsers, 2D and 3D in CAD systems, Java databases, WEB authoring systems, wireless messaging and email protocols, object-oriented software development tools, game systems graphics, WAP/WML Internet and object technology, video interfaces and Internet image displays. Dr. Potel has testified in numerous Federal patent cases, Markman hearings, and has published many articles and journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1971 and 1977, respectively. View Full CV

Krishna Shenai, Ph.D.
Dr. Shenai has over 30 years of combined industry, research, academic, consulting and entrepreneurial experience with COMSAT Labs, General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Intel Corporation, The University of Wisconsin Madison, The University of Illinois - Chicago, Utah State University and the University of Toledo. Dr. Shenai has also served as an independent consultant for over 50 Fortune-2000 companies worldwide, and has testified in court on several occasions as an expert witness on matters related to intellectual property litigation. His expertise covers the physics and technology of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits used for signal and power processing, semiconductor manufacturing, low-power mixed-signal and RF/microwave electronics, power semiconductor devices and power electronics, power management, renewable energy and smart power grid, sensors and wireless communication networks, environmental sensing and ecosystem monitoring, medical devices and biomedical instrumentation, robotic surgery, and electronics system failure and reliability. He is a named inventor in 12 issued US patents and over 40 international patents, and has authored or co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications of which more than 100 are in IEEE journals. He has edited 3 books and contributed to 8 book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS, a Fellow of IETE (India), a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society, and a member of the Yugoslavian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Shenai received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras in 1979, a MSEE degree from The University of Maryland - College Park, MD in 1981, and his Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 1986. View Full CV

David A. Wilson, Ph.D.
Dr. Wilson has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Portal Software, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Xerox, SRI International, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Dr. Wilson has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Java technologies, object-oriented programming, XML/SOAP web services, C , Smalltalk, Objective-C, Microsoft NET technologies, distributed computing including COBRA and Java RIM, graphical user interfaces (GUI), software development practices, processes, reuse, frameworks and design patterns, artificial life technologies, genetic algorithms, visual programming languages, digital cameras and ultrasonic imaging systems for medical diagnostics. He has developed software products including a dataflow-based visual programming language for doing complex numeric and financial calculations, two C++ applications frameworks, various Java tools for managing billing systems, a Java-based prototype of an automated teller machine, a real-time UV visible spectrophotometer and numerous real-time ultrasonic imaging systems for medical diagnostics. Dr. Wilson has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving visual programming languages, nuclear medicine software, data mining software, telecommunications billing systems software and traffic systems software and has published many articles and journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1965, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1967 and 1970, respectively. View Full CV

Expert has more than seventeen years of experience in research and development of digital image/video technologies and multimedia systems. He has led a large research team at a prominent University in developing cutting-edge systems in image/video processing & indexing, compressed video manipulation, and media authentication. He has made important contributions to the development of new international standards of MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and JPEG-2000 Security. His research has been widely recognized with many paper awards and supported with broad funding from government and a large industry consortium. He frequently serves as consultant or advisor to companies in the media technology area.

• Digital Image/Video Processing
• Video Coding/Compression
• Video Indexing and Analysis
• Image/Video Watermarking and Authentication
• Image Database
• Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Standards

1014
Expert has over twenty-eight years of extremely broad based experience in the analysis, simulation, design, development, integration, testing and debug of multi-disciplinary electronic systems. Since 1981 as an engineering consultant, and from 1977-1981 as a founding employee of a high tech startup, he has designed and managed the development of numerous electronic systems, printed circuit board designs, software programs, firmware, control systems and other devices. He has three patents. His primary areas of focus include instrumentation and control systems, digital and analog circuit design; signal integrity simulation and modeling for high-speed digital circuits; medical product design and development; power management and distribution in electronic equipment/products; data communications products; data compression systems; multi-disciplinary system design and simulation; automatic test equipment (ATE) product development; embedded firmware; and software for a plurality of hardware platforms, in several different programming languages. He has debugged malfunctioning products and systems and reverse-engineered and tested electronic hardware and software based products for a number of clients. He has been an expert witness in ten engagements.

• Medical Electronics and Equipment
• Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering
• Electronic Product and Circuit Design, Development, Debug and Integration
• Real Time Applications Programming
• Data Compression
• Instrumentation and Control Systems
• Electronic System Power Distribution
• Printed Circuit Board Engineering
• Signal Integrity for High Speed Digital Circuits
• Electro-Magnetic Interference Control
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• DVD Player technology
• Hardware Simulation and Modeling

1026
This expert is a professor in electrical engineering and patent holder. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Information Theory
• Communication Theory
• Multiterminal Source Coding
• Wireless Telephony Theory ; Random Signals.
• Robust Communication Networks
• Signature Verification and Compression
• Identification/verification; Random Fields
• Video Compression; Speaker; Data Compression
• Rate Distortion; Videocodec Development

1042
Expert is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Sciences, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is well known as the inventor or co-inventor of Order Statistic Filters; the Gabor Texture Model; the Image Modulation Model; the Structural Similarity (SSIM) and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) Indices for image quality assessment, the MOtion-based Video Integrity Evaluation (MOVIE) index for video quality assessment, the LIVE Image and Video Quality Databases, and SIVA - the Signal, Image and Video Audiovisual Demonstration Gallery (used by more than 400 sites around the world), as well as many other contributions to the fields of image and video processing, computational vision, digital microscopy, and modeling of biological visual perception. He has published over 500 technical articles in these areas and holds two U.S. patents. He is also the author of three books. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and Markman testimony.

• Image Processing
• Digital Video Communication
• Computational Biological Visual Perception
• Signal Processing
• Pattern Analysis and Processing

1043
Expert has over 35 years of experience working in the automation and digital imaging industry. Participated in MegaVision`s technical and business development since its founding in 1983 and contributed to numerous innovations and advances in the art and science of digital imaging. He has expert witness experience including deposition and trial testimony experience.

• Digital camera system design
• Digital camera system development
• System integration
• Component design
• Calibration
• Measurement and test

1045
This expert holds a Ph.D. in robotics. He invents and develops adaptive image sensor chips and imaging systems that deliver visual information not obtainable with conventional image sensors. Intrigue`s proprietary technology enables computer vision systems to function reliably and consistently over a wide range of environmental conditions. Intrigue`s products are ideally suited for uncontrollable imaging environments such as in intelligent transportation systems, intelligent surveillance and biometric systems, and autonomous unmanned systems.

• Analog & Mixed Mode VLSI Design
• Analog Electronic Systems
• CCD and CMOS Image Sensors
• Computer Vision
• Digital Electronic Systems
• e-Commerce and Web Technology
• Electronic Computer Systems
• Image Sensing & Processing
• Industrial Sensors and Control Systems
• Intellectual Property Assessment and Protection
• Microcircuits
• Signal Processing

1055
Expert is an internationally recognized authority on video display systems and monitors. His involvement with video and display related design spans more than 30 years. It includes computer output displays from the earliest computer terminals to the present high-resolution, multi-frequency CAD monitors, airborne and ground simulation displays, consumer and industrial video products, frame capture and image processing, LCD pixel addressing, VR and head-mounted displays, and most recently, projection using LCOS. In addition, he has designed high-speed video cameras and audio amplifiers for the industrial marketplace, a video transmitter/receiver pair for CAT5 cable, and fiber optic transceivers for the telecommunications industry. Expert is highly skilled in such areas as high frequency and high performance analog design, digital design, phase-locked loops, video and audio amplifiers, switch mode power supplies, and magnetics. His involvement in design starts with system or product definition, hands-on board level design, fabrication, assembly, test, documentation, and release of the design to production. In addition to the hardware aspects of video and mixed signal design, he is well versed in the fields of photometry and human factors, and excels at written communication on technical subjects. He is an experienced expert witness.

• Video Displays
• High Frequency Analog Design
• Video/Audio Amplifiers
• Power Supplies
• Video Monitors
• Digital Design
• Phase-locked Loops
• Magnetics

1060
With over 30 years of experience, expert holds image analysis and image processing patents and serves on various university and government advisory committees. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers on digital image processing. He serves as Visiting Committee Chairman for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, at a prominent university. Expert has served as a technical expert in legal cases ranging from the JFK assassination to bank robberies and patent cases. In recent years, this expert has forged ADIR into an industry leader in digital image processing research and development. Under his leadership, PSI and ADIR have developed and deployed many innovative image processing technologies.

• Digital Image Processing
• Digital Image Compression (MPEG2, MPEG4, H.263, JPEG2000)
• Pattern Recognition
• Image Enhancement
• Biometric Image Recognition
• Medical Imaging

1062
Expert has more than seventeen years of experience in research and development of digital image/video technologies and multimedia systems. He has led a large research team at a prominent University in developing cutting-edge systems in image/video processing & indexing, compressed video manipulation, and media authentication. He has made important contributions to the development of new international standards of MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and JPEG-2000 Security. His research has been widely recognized with many paper awards and supported with broad funding from government and a large industry consortium. He frequently serves as consultant or advisor to companies in the media technology area.

• Digital Image/Video Processing
• Video Coding/Compression
• Video Indexing and Analysis
• Image/Video Watermarking and Authentication
• Image Database
• Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Standards

1070
Expert has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in probability and speech and signal processing, pattern recognition, and random processes. He was technical program co-chairman of Speech Tech `86 and Technical Program Chair of ICASSP `96. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, has served a member of the IEEE speech technical committee, and has been an associate editor of speech processing for IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and is on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has been principal investigator on numerous sponsored research projects, primarily concerned with speech processing.

• Digital speech processing and analysis
• Speech recognition
• Analysis and compensation of stress in speech
• Sensory aids for the hearing impaired
• Pattern recognition
• Digital signal processing
• Information retrieval

1083
Expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in software, systems and electrical engineering. His background includes patent prosecution and litigation, management of patent licensing projects, technical advisor for counsel, internet, web site and systems development, software product development, database management systems, software architecture, research and development, and system specification. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• Databases
• Internet/Web/e-Commerce
• Client/Server, N-Tier Technology
• Graphics/GUIs
• Sensor Processing
• EEG Analysis
• GPS Tracking
• Pattern Recognition
• Computer Linguistics
• Content Analysis
• Patent Analysis and Licensing
• Algorithm Development
• Medical Records Database Analysis
• Software Architecture
• Embedded Systems
• Geographic Information Systems
• Distributed Computing
• Systems Development

1103
The expert has thirty-four years of software project analysis, design and development. Projects have included real time controls for radiotherapy and real time digital radiographic equipment, real time digital image acquisition, analysis, storage and retrieval. He also has experience with embedded control and display for medical bedside instruments and user interface development for custom hardware or commercial software products.

• Computer Automation
• Control Systems
• Device Driver Development
• Digital Image Processing
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Object Oriented Programming
• Real Time Systems
• System Engineering

1258
Over his 25-year career, Expert has held lead technical and managerial positions at PCS/Cadmus Computers in Munich, Xerox PARC, Cincom, Music-IP and Citrix-Online. He has managed academic R&D teams both domestically and internationally. Currently active as a software consultant/contractor specializing in object-oriented software and development process management, and as a lab manager and graduate lecturer at the University of California Expert is an experienced software/hardware engineer, technology visionary, strategic manager and intellectual property expert. He has an extensive track-record developing large systems in C, C++, Java, and Smalltalk for applications such as multimedia data processing and delivery, reliable distributed web services, computer graphics, database systems, virtual environments, numerics/statistics, and artificial intelligence. He is an experience patent litigator with deposition and testimonial experience at the ITC.

• Digital audio processing
• Computer music
• Multimedia systems
• Artificial intelligence
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Computer graphics
• Distributed processing
• Internet content delivery

1268
Expert has over 30 years of industry and academic experience. His background includes design experience to a variety of national and international industries dealing with microelectronics and computer design. He was a Principal investigator on research projects dealing with automated Boolean minimization, high-speed computer arithmetic, bit-serial processing, special-purpose VLSI architectures, marine navigation systems, and computer-aided design of digital systems Expert has worked on many patent litigations and has been deposed and testified at trail. He is a patent holder with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.

• Microprocessor/Microcomputer Design and Application
• Computer-Aided Design
• Computer Architecture
• Digital Systems Design and Synthesis
• Digital Communications
• Electronic Circuit Design
• Semiconductor Manufacture
• Technology Maturation and Commercialization

1269
Expert has over twenty years experience in development, research, and marketing, with a focus on graphics technology, both in terms of graphics hardware advances such as 3D and video and imaging, as well as graphics software developments, such as graphics APIs, architectures, games and visualizations. He has extensive litigation experience including being deposed several times and testifying. He has expertise and is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: 3D and 2D Graphical Image Generation and Manipulation, Computer Graphics: Hardware & Software, Digital Imaging and Photography, Display Technologies, Gaming Technologies, Internet Technologies, Photographic Techniques, Computer Systems Architecture, Marine Engineering (Underwater Electronics, Signaling, Imaging), Programming Languages, and Operating Systems.

• 3D and 2D Graphical Image Generation and Manipulation
• Computer Graphics: Hardware & Software
• Digital Imaging and Photography
• Display Technologies
• Gaming Technologies
• Internet Technologies
• Photographic Techniques
• Computer Systems Architecture
• Marine Engineering (Underwater Electronics, Signaling, Imaging)
• Programming Languages and Operating Systems

1270
Expert has over 35 years of international experience in computer analysis and programming, including more than 16 years in litigation support. He has provided litigation support in all manners of intellectual property cases, on both the plaintiff and defense sides. He is experienced in a variety of computer forensic explorations, including PC hard disk drive analyses, deleted file reconstruction, and historical, hidden, lost data restoration and discovery. He has also analyzed matters involving combinations of hardware and software and has testified about those elements. Additionally, expert has developed and presented several technical seminars, customized training in Personal Computer software, written over 30 books on computer technology, and starred in more than 25 video and CDROM presentations regarding computer software. He has expertise and is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: Software Copyright Infringement, Trade Secret Misappropriation, Patent Infringement, Internet Trademark Infringement, Computer Forensics, Computer Simulation, Data Analysis and Reduction, Data Capture and Conversion, Digital Data Forensics, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Operating Systems, Hardware and Software, Programming Languages, Data Networking and Communications, and Software.

• Internet Trademark Infringement
• Computer Forensics
• Computer Simulation
• Data Analysis and Reduction
• Data Capture and Conversion
• Digital Data Forensics
• Electronic Evidence Discovery
• Operating Systems
• Hardware and Software
• Programming Languages
• Data Networking and Communications
• Software Applications

1272
Expert has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and has over 30 years of industry and academic experience. He is a technology leader in mechanical CAD, computer graphics and visualization, having played key roles in the development of many highly regarded technologies and products during his career. He has participated in SIGGRAPH as a committee member. He is adept at technology investigations and engineering analysis. He has broader expertise in industrial design, image processing and algebraic computing. He is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: Computer Graphics, Scientific/Medical Visualization, Mechanical CAD, Industrial Design, Algebraic Computing, and Image Processing.

• Computer Graphics
• Scientific/Medical Visualization
• Mechanical CAD
• Industrial Design
• Algebraic Computing
• Image Processing

1279
Expert's research interest is in integrated, pervasive computing and high performance computer architecture. Expert is developing a communications oriented language that makes it easy to integrate multiple minor applications with multiple inputs and output mechanisms. Expert is investigating the use of malleable caches as a way of making optimal use of microprocessor chip area as well as using Term Rewriting Systems as a way to specify, synthesize, and model computer architecture and protocols. Expert has built parallel computers using free-space optical interconnection networks, as well as using custom designed network interface units. He holds a Ph.D. is published and has prior expert witness experience.

• Pervasive Computing
• Computer Architecture
• Microprocessor Cache Memory
• Complex Systems Theory
• Parallel Computing
• Optical Communications
• Communication-Oriented Programming

1290
Expert`s expertise centers on the fabrication and modeling of a wide variety of optical devices. His work is aimed at developing advanced read/write heads for optical data storage systems. He currently leads a major research group focused on optical and hybrid recording technologies. Expert holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics is a patent holder and is extensively published.

• Opto-Electronic Device Technology
• III-V Semiconductors
• Optical Data Storage Systems
• Laser Beam Deflectors
• Solid Immersion Lenses/Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Room-Temperature Radiation Detectors

1299
Expert is a Certified Management Consultant with over twenty-five years experience in all aspects of management consulting and professional information technology and data processing. He has been an independent consultant since 1979. His experience includes significant management, budgetary, and technical experience in operations, systems programming, large-scale application design and development. Specific assignments/specialties include: Information Technology Management; Data Center Management; Software Development Management; Project Management & Project Management Office; and Audit & Assessment. Other specialties include Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE); vendor/product selection; strategic automation planning; litigation consulting; World Wide Web site development & management. Expert has extensive experience with litigation support, has been deposed and testified.

• Client/Server Applications
• Computer Aided Software
• Computer Technology
• Database Design
• Engineering (CASE)
• Internet Technology
• Outsourcing Review/Management
• Software Application Design
• Strategic Planning and Project Management
• Windows & UNIX Systems Programming
• WWW Systems, Software & Design