picture of CMW Charles M. Wine
144 Hamilton Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08540-3858
Home: (609) 921-6268
Cell: (609) 915-1593
cwine@verizon.net
http://members.verizon.net/~cwine

Top Level Engineer/Scientist/Inventor
Would consider seat on Board of Directors, but not as a yes-man.

Start at $200K. Not eager to relocate.

Digital Systems involving Video and/or Image synthesis, analysis and/or processing.

Expect to be useful during Project/Business policy and goal setting, strategy formation, approach definition and execution.

Education: BEE Cum Laude CCNY 1959, some Graduate work at Princeton University 1959-1961.

Experience: 43 years doing a wide variety of interesting things (see long winded bio.) at Sarnoff Corporation (and previous identities of that organization). Last job title: "Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff".

Inventions: Somewhere around 55 US Patents.

Recent Activities:
- Digital Cinema: System Architect for Digital Cinema systems involving Linux Computer Cluster Encoder doing advanced MPEG-like compression and Multi G4 Raceway architecture real-time decoding for DLP/DMD display.
- Digital TV Compression Evaluation Patterns: Created synthetic moving video test patterns for evaluation of digital TV compression quality .
- Virtual Reality: System Architect for Virtual Reality Game system, involving low cost Head-Mounted display, powerful rendering system, user game controls and security and encryption system for IP protection.

Experience Areas:
- Digital images (still and moving) synthesis, processing, analysis, compression.
- Computing systems Unix, Irix, NT-like, Linux, including clusters, and inter-processor communication.
- Embedded computers in the consumer environment, from single-chip microcontrollers, through multi-microcomputer systems, to PowerTV set-top-box for cable/satellite TV.
- Consumer Products: Digital TV tuning, 2-Way interactive Cable-TV systems, On-Screen displays, VideoDisc.

Date for this document: 4/8/03