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`James J. Kosmach
`Summary of Qualifications
`• Leader and technologist with 20+years of experience in developing overall strategy and guiding software
`development organizations
`• Lead a team of computer vision engineers in the development of products with state of the art machine and
`deep learning algorithms
`• Experienced innovator with eight issued patents and four patent applications in the areas of multimedia and
`digital communications.
`• Expertise in multimedia algorithms and the architecture, implementation, and optimization of video codecs such
`as MPEG4/H.263, H.264, and WMV and their packaging into file storage and streaming formats such as ASF,
`MP4, RTSP/RTP, and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).
`• Led team of 15 codec engineers for 8 years to develop audio and video codecs such as WMA, MP3, GSM-
`AMR, GSM-AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, H.263, MPEG-4, H.264, and WMV for embedded wireless devices.
`Codecs achieved world class performance and bit-error resiliency. Codecs shipped on hundreds of millions
`mobile handsets worldwide.
`• Led the multimedia codec discussions between PacketVideo and Google with regards to the adoption of
`PacketVideo’s OpenCore framework for the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform. Led codec team and
`worked closely with Google on the integration of PacketVideo’s OpenCore framework into the Android platfrom.
`• Member of Motorola Corporate R&D’s first video signal processing team. Participated in MPEG-2
`standardization. Filed patents on video encoding rate control algorithms. Performed ground breaking research
`on Overlapped Block Motion Compensation (OBMC).
`• Performed research that led to a patent on the cryptographic protection of a data packet. Consulted with
`Motorola legal counsel during 2010-2012 for landmark cases against Apple, Microsoft, and RIM (BlackBerry).
`Traveled to Washington D.C. to testify before the ITC for the litigation.
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`Education
`Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
`Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
`Dissertation: “Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes for Mobile Messaging Systems”
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`Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
`M.S. in Electrical Engineering
`Specialization: DSP and Communications
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`Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana
`B.S. in Electrical Engineering
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`Professional Experience
`UIC–Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of ECE, UIC, Chicago, IL
`• Faculty member in the signal processing group
`• Teach classes in computer vision, signals and systems, and probability
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`Personify–VP of Engineering Chicago, IL
`• Lead an international team engineers developing computer vision algorithms and products
`• Lead R&D team focused on machine learning with emphasis on computer vision applications
`• Create a culture of product development best practices within the software development teams
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`2018-Present
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`2013-Present
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`• Manage and track IP portfolio – set IP strategy and policy for the company
`Instrumental lead role in a multimillion-dollar software licensing deal to Intel, Inc.
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`PacketVideo–Senior Director of Engineering San Diego, CA and Palatine, IL
`2000-2013
`• Led technical discussions with customers and internal design teams focused on the architecture, design, and
`deployment of PacketVideo multimedia technology on embedded consumer electronic and mobile devices.
`Develop system requirements and file patent applications. Contribute to the development of business
`opportunities with customers.
`• Led PacketVideo and AT&T customer engagement and technical team discussions from the initial meetings to
`final deployment of PacketVideo’s DLNA/UPNP software integration with the AT&T U-verse STB receiver that
`supports H.264 and AAC codec. Final product was heralded by AT&T as one of their success stories and
`presented at the AT&T Developer Summit in 2013.
`• Led team of 15 codec engineers for 8 years located in Chicago, San Diego, India, and Thailand in the
`architecture, optimization, and implementation of highly efficient audio and video codecs such as WMA, MP3,
`GSM-AMR, GSM-AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, H.263, MPEG-4, H.264, and WMV. Codecs were architected and
`developed from the ground up and implemented in highly optimized C-code/assembly for platforms such as
`ARM-7, ARM-9, ARM-11, and Cortex ARM microprocessors and TI-55x and C6x DSPs. The codecs
`performance and their resiliency to withstand packet loss was world class. The codecs were constantly
`evaluated and selected by many of the top tier handset OEMS and shipped on hundreds of millions of handsets
`worldwide.
`• Led the multimedia codec discussions between PacketVideo and Google with regards to the adoption of
`PacketVideo’s OpenCore framework for the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform. Led codec team and
`worked closely with Google on the integration of PacketVideo’s OpenCore framework into the Android.
`Proposed to Google the integration advantages of the OpenMax interface for codecs for the Android platform.
`Worked closely with Google and Qualcomm on the integration of the HW accelerated codecs into the
`OpenCore solution and OpenMax for the first Android G1 handset.
`• Coordinated multimedia and streaming discussions between PacketVideo and Microsoft for the incorporation of
`Windows Media codecs and MS RTSP/RTP and HTTP streaming into PacketVideo’s architecture. Led
`multimedia team that optimized and integrated Windows Media Codecs and MS RTSP/RTP and ASF
`Streaming into PacketVideo’s embedded handset solution that was deployed as Verizon’s VCAST service.
`VCAST was the first solution to deploy WMA-Pro Low Bit Rate (LBR) audio and the largest non-Microsoft
`deployment of Microsoft DRM.
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`Algorithms Research Engineer–Motorola SPS and PCS, Austin, TX
`• Led wireline research team in the development of algorithms for the Motorola CopperGold ADSL
`modem chipset. Performed research on Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM), Reed Solomon Codes, and
`Discrete Multi-Tone Modulation (DMT/OFDM). Invented and received a patent for this research effort.
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`Consultant–Self-employed part-time during Ph.D research, Atlanta, GA
`1994-1996
`• Developed SPW and BONeS simulation test-bed for the Motorola ReFLEX mobile messaging system
`• Performed capacity and packet delay analyses for the ERMES mobile messaging protocol
`• Performed research on channel coding and demodulation algorithms for the Motorola ReFLEX mobile
`messaging system. Invented and received two patents with Motorola regarding this work.
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`Research Engineer–Motorola Corporate R&D Labs, Schaumburg, IL
`1990–1993
`• Part of multi-disciplinary lab that performed Motorola’s first research on image and video compression.
`• Participated in MPEG-2 standardization by attending ANSI and ISO/MPEG meetings.
`• Researched and implemented H.261, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video encoders and decoders. Worked on
`efficient C-code architecture and implementation, rate control algorithms, and motion estimation
`techniques. Invented and received two patents on adaptive rate control algorithms.
`• Performed research on bit-error resilient and error concealment techniques for the wireless
`transmission of images and video. Investigated the bit error resilience of the Lapped Orthogonal
`Transform (LOT) in the transmission of images over a cellular network.
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`1998-2000
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`• Analyzed and evaluated fractal compression techniques and their application towards video
`compression and its usefulness in error prone networks.
`• Performed groundbreaking research on Overlapped Block Motion Compensation (OBMC). Resulting
`work led to collaborative research with Michael Orchard of UIUC and the classic paper on OBMC.
`• Performed research on packet data networks. Invented and received a strategic patent on the
`cryptographic protection of a data packet. Patent was used by Motorola/Google in their landmark
`patent infringement cases against Microsoft, Apple, and Research in Motion.
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`Patents
`• Kosmach, Jenkins, Gran, Sherwood, and Al-shaykh, "System and Method For Embedding Multimedia
`Controls and Indications in a Webpage," U.S. Patent Application No: 2013/Pending.
`• Sherwood, Kosmach, Al-shaykh, June, and MacKay "System and Method for Using an Application on a
`Mobile Device to Transfer Internet Media Content," U.S. Patent Application No: 2012/0210205.
`• Luessi, Katsaggelos, Veselinovic, Lengwehasatit, and Kosmach, “System and Method for Frame
`Interpolation for a Compressed Video Bitstream,” U.S. Patent Application No: 2010/0201870.
`• Al-shaykh, Johnson, Rossi, Sonawane, Kosmach, and June, "System and Method for Receiving
`Broadcast Multimedia on a Mobile Device," U.S. Patent Application No: 2009/0083803.
`• Kosmach and Fontaine, “Method and apparatus for assigning bit metrics for soft decision decoding,” U.S.
`Patent 7,054,386, May 30, 2006.
`• Levin, Kosmach, and Djordjevic, “Method of identifying an improved configuration for a communication
`system using coding gain and an apparatus therefore,” U.S. Patent 6,625,777, September 23, 2003.
`• Kosmach, “Method and apparatus for decoding a data packet,” U.S. Patent 5,996,110, Nov 30, 1999.
`• Auyeung, Levine, Kosmach, “Method, rate controller, and system for preventing overflow and underflow
`of a decoder buffer in a video compression system,” U.S. Patent 5,677,969, October 14, 1997.
`• Auyeung, Levine, and Kosmach, “Method and device for determining bit allocation in a video compression
`system,” U.S. Patent #5,506,686, April 9, 1996.
`• Finkelstein, Kosmach, and Smolinske, “Method and apparatus for providing cryptographic protection of a
`data stream in a communication system,” U.S. Patent 5,319,712, June 7, 1994.
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`Publications
`• Kosmach, Lengwehasatit, Veselinovic, Sherwood, and Neff, "Introduction to the OpenCore Video
`Components Used in the Android Platform," 1st International Workshop on Video Coding and Video
`Processing, Shenzhen, China, November 26-28th, 2008.
`• Tapia, Kosmach, Veselinovic, Sherwood, and Neff, "Introduction to the OpenCore Audio Components
`Used in the Android Platform," AES 34th International Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, Aug 28-30th, 2008.
`• Kosmach and Wicker, "Reconfigurable Two–Stage Trellis Decoding for Reed–Solomon Codes,"
`Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications, June 6–10, 1999, Vancouver, B.C.
`Canada.
`• Kosmach and Wicker, "Algebraic–Sequential Reed–Solomon Trellis Decoding," Proceedings of the IEEE
`Vehicular Technology Conference, May 16 – 20, 1999, Houston, Texas.
`• Kosmach, “Soft Decision Decoding of Reed Solomon Codes for Mobile Messaging Systems,” Ph.D.
`Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 1998.
`• Wicker and Kosmach, "Advances in the Soft Decision Decoding of Reed–Solomon Codes," Proceedings
`of the 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference for Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing,
`Victoria, British Columbia, August 20 – 22, 1997.
`• Auyueng, Kosmach, Orchard, and Kalafatis, “Overlapped block motion compensation,” SPIE Conference
`on Visual Communications and Image Processing Proceedings, vol. 1818, pp. 561-572, November 1992.
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`Panels
`• Senior Design Day Industry Judge, College of Engineering, Northern Illinois University, 2006-Present.
`• Go Big on the Big Screen, AT&T Developer Summit, 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada
`• Panel Expert on Multimedia Issues in an Embedded Design, Renesas Developer Conference 2008, San
`Diego, California.
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`Academic Experience
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`Industry M.S. Thesis Advisor–Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
`• Proposed and guided M.S. thesis research as an industry advisor
` Topi Santakivi, "Frame Rate Up-Conversion in Mobile Video," M.S. Thesis, Tampere
`University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, March, 2010.
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`Industry M.S. Thesis Advisor–Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
`• Proposed and guided M.S. thesis research as an industry advisor
` Research led to filing a patent application
` Martin Luessi, "Motion Compensated Frame Rate Up Conversion," M.S. Electrical
`Engineering Master's Thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, December,
`2007.
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`Adjunct Faculty–ECE Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
`• Taught a senior course in Digital Signal Processing
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`Adjunct Faculty–ECE Department, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
`• Developed and instructed graduate courses in digital communications
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`Instructor–Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
`• Created, developed, and instructed a three week graduate course on wireless
`communications
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`Visiting Student Researcher–Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
`• Performed research in the area of error-control coding for wireless messaging
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`Professional Memberships
`IEEE Member
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`Apple v. Corephtonics
`Exhibit 2006
`IPR2018-01133
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`Exhibit 2006 Page 4 of 4
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