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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ASSIST SYNCHRONIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED PLAY OUT OF CONTENT - A method for synchronizing content undergoing play out at first and second stations commences by comparing audio within content undergoing play out on the first station to the audio within content undergoing play out on the second station to determine if a latency exists between the first and second stations. If such a latency exists, then at least one of a pause or jump operations is performed in connection with content playing out by at least one of the first and second stations for an interval corresponding to an interval by which one station leads the other station to bring the two stations into substantial synchronism | 05-19-2016 |
20160125472 | GESTURE BASED ADVERTISEMENT PROFILES FOR USERS - The present principles are directed to gesture based advertisement profiles for users. A system includes an advertisement reaction gesture capture device ( | 05-05-2016 |
20160119547 | IMAGING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR A CO-EXISTENT SHOOTING AND REPRODUCTION MODE - A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen that is a shooting mode. When a time dial | 04-28-2016 |
20160112751 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF RELATED MEDIA ASSETS - A method and system for dynamic discovery of related media assets is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of media asset representations for a plurality of media assets to be displayed to a user on a display screen. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selection of a media asset from among the plurality of media assets. The selection is made by the user moving the selected media asset to a pre-designated location on the display screen. The method also includes providing recommendations of related media assets responsive to the indication. The recommendations are provided in other locations on the display screen. Each of the other locations is associated with a respective one of a plurality of media related categories. | 04-21-2016 |
20160077668 | REAR PROJECTION SYSTEM WITH A FOLDABLE PROJECTION SCREEN FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A rear projection system includes a screen having an expandable surface that is selectively expanded to display thereon a rear projected image illuminated by a rear pico projector. The screen is selectively contracted for enhancing portability. The rear projection system includes a foldable frame that is selectively unfolded for supporting the screen and that is selectively folded for enhancing portability. A sensor is used for converting the screen to a touchscreen when the screen surface is expanded. | 03-17-2016 |
20160072954 | MOBILE DEVICE SYNCHRONIZATION TO A GATEWAY | 03-10-2016 |
20160071170 | METHOD OF CREATING CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USER RATINGS OF CONTENT WITH IMPROVED USER PRIVACY - A recommendation system provides improved privacy under the local model, in which users store their data locally, and differential privacy is ensured through randomization of ratings under the control of the user before submitting data to the recommender system. The recommender system performs a clustering on the data collected from a plurality of users and returns the results to the users. The users' devices fine-tune the recommendation based on locally stored, non-randomized ratings. The recommendation system provides a user-adjustable degree of privacy while still allowing for generating recommendations with a decent accuracy. | 03-10-2016 |
20160066003 | VIRAL TUNING METHOD - A method of scoring and arranging events related to entertainment content for a user in a viral tuning system is disclosed. The method comprising checking for a new event associated with media content; determining whether the new event is selected; applying a new score to the new event; associating the new event with one or more sub-events, each sub-event having a prior score and associated with the media content associated with the new event; adding the prior scores of the sub-events to the new score of the new event, resulting in a total score; adding an interest value to the total score, resulting in a new total score, the interest value being based on whether the new event is selected; and associating the new total score with the new event. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065929 | SUBTITLING FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - A method, apparatus and system of the present invention enable the location of subtitles for a stereoscopic image and a selection of the disparity of stereo subtitles to ensure proper display of the subtitles within frames of the stereoscopic content. In one embodiment, the functionality of the concepts of the present invention is based on a player capable of displaying stereo content by reading two streams (one for the left view, one for the right view) and mixing the streams in real time using a mode supported on a 3D display (i.e. line interleaved, checkerboard pattern) based on received file information and inserting the subtitle in the frames by rendering the values in the received file information. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A SUPER-RESOLVED IMAGE FROM A SINGLE IMAGE - Known methods for generating super-resolved images from single input images have various disadvantages. An improved method for generating a super-resolved image from a single low-resolution input image comprises up-scaling the input image to generate an initial version of the super-resolved image, searching, for each patch of the low-resolution input image, similar low-resolution patches in first search windows within down-sampled versions of the input image, and determining, in less down-sampled versions of the input image, high-resolution patches that correspond to the similar low-resolution patches. The determined high-resolution patches are cropped, a second search window is determined in the initial version of the super-resolved image, and a best-matching position for each cropped high-resolution patch is searched within the second search window. Finally, each cropped high-resolution patch is added to the super-resolved image at its respective best-matching position. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063614 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGES WITH VIEWING ENVIRONMENT - A system and methods are provided for matching images with viewing environment. A method includes accessing ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160057500 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A PERSONALIZED PROJECT REPOSITORY FOR CONTENT CREATORS - A personalized project repository for content creators using multimedia annotations on video production projects. The project repository may be an aggregation of multimedia annotations created by a content creator based on a set of access rules defined for the content creator, where the access rules limit the content creators ability to create multimedia annotation within video production projects. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057462 | DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS FOR DIFFERENT MOVIE VERSIONS - A method and system are disclosed for distributing different versions of a movie. A digital cinema package contains assets for different versions of the movie and a first composition playlist representing a first version of the movie. A second composition playlist, which represents a second version of the movie, is available separately from the first digital cinema package. At least one picture track file in the digital cinema package has a portion that is not referenced by the first composition playlist, but referenced by the second composition playlist. | 02-25-2016 |
20160057141 | NETWORK SYSTEM COMPRISING A SECURITY MANAGEMENT SERVER AND A HOME NETWORK, AND METHOD FOR INCLUDING A DEVICE IN THE NETWORK SYSTEM - The network system comprises a security management server and a first device is added to the network system by creating a one-time code on the security management server, which is used for connecting the device to the security management server. A server certificate is sent to the device, and a user device certificate generated in the device is sent to the security management server. The user device certificate is signed with an administrator key on the security management server, which signed user device certificate is sent from the security management server to the device and which is used by the device for communication with a further device of the network system. The network system is in particular a secured home network. | 02-25-2016 |
20160044648 | WHITE SPACE USAGE FOR WIRELEESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK DEVICES - A method and apparatus are described including defining a neighbor set for each access point, selecting a first clock in a first access point, the selected clock having a highest accuracy as a grand master clock, advising neighboring access points to synchronize with the selected grand master clock and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the grand master clock. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a beacon message, inspecting clock descriptors in the beacon message, selecting a best master clock responsive to the inspection and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the selected best master clock. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044532 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET HEADER COMPRESSION - To compress headers efficiently, headers may be differentially encoded. In one embodiment, a difference between a current field and a reference field can be used in a reduced header. In another embodiment, the least significant bits of the current field can be used to represent the current field. When such a field is received, the most significant bits of a reference field are needed to decompress the field. In addition, the present principles determine the typical usage scenarios that may benefit from header compression and further determine that some fields can be removed in a reduced header or be represented by fewer bits. Header compression may impose constraints on the representation of the current field. The present principles recognize constraints on using reduced headers and provide rules and guidelines on applying header compression. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044160 | CALL INITIATION BY VOICE COMMAND - A terminal for use in a communications network for calling a called party includes a capture buffer for storing a media stream, including a voice command, received from the caller. A session controller in the terminal controls call handling and launches the call from the caller to the called party in accordance with the voice command. Responsive to the session manager, a stream controller will transmit the media stream from the capture buffer to the called party following set up of the call. In this way the called party may identify the caller voice and screen the call. Silence intervals in the media stream are detected and suppressed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160043819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUDIENCE RESPONSES TO CONTENT FROM ELECTRO-DERMAL ACTIVITY SIGNALS - A method for decomposing Electro-Derma Activity signals from a user to infer response to content commences by first high-pass filtering the raw EDA signals collected from a user to reduce the influence of tonic signals. The high-pass filtered EDA signals are then fitted to a dictionary of feasible skin conductance response signals. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTINGUISHING SCREEN HOLD FROM SCREEN TOUCH - A touch screen enabled device of the present invention includes at least a display screen, a frame bordering the display screen and at least one touch sensor located in the device such that when pressure is applied to at least a portion of the frame proximate the at least one touch sensor, the pressure is sensed by the at least one touch sensor. In a touch screen enabled device of the present invention, the activation of a touch sensor located proximate at least a portion of a frame of the touch screen enabled device is electrically sensed and a touch screen functionality of at least a portion of a screen of the touch screen enabled device proximate the activated touch sensor is disabled. | 02-11-2016 |
20160037353 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESS, ENABLEMENT AND CONTROL BY DEVICES IN TV WHITE SPACE - Methods and apparatus for access, enablement and control of devices in TV white space are provided. Methods and apparatus for channel scanning by a device are provided that shorten channel scanning time by using a 5 MHz Measurement Pilot frame at a predetermined location within an enabling device's channel, regardless of the operating bandwidth of the enabling device. Also provided are methods and apparatus for multi-band dynamic station enablement that locate information regarding an enabling device's supported regulatory classes and channel numbers within one accessible frame of information and also provide request and response messages to arrange for enablement of a requesting device on a network. Further, methods and apparatus are provided for identifying an interfering device on a network by providing increased information from within a DSE Registered Location element. | 02-04-2016 |
20160036584 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING RIDGE REGRESSION USING PARTIALLY HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION AND MASKS - A method and system for privacy-preserving ridge regression using partially homomorphic encryption and masks is provided. The method includes the steps of requesting a garbled circuit from a crypto service provider, collecting data from multiple users that has been formatted and encrypted using partially homomorphic encryption, summing the data that has been formatted and encrypted using partially homomorphic encryption, applying a prepared masks to the summed data, receiving garbled inputs corresponding to prepared mask from the crypto service provider using oblivious transfer, and evaluating the garbled circuit from the crypto service provider using the garbled inputs and masked data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160029335 | METHOD FOR RECEPTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE FOR RECEPTION - The invention relates to a device for transmission in a wireless network comprising a plurality of base stations and at least one mobile terminal, a mobile terminal (MT) transmitting a same signal ( | 01-28-2016 |
20160020919 | APPARATUS ADAPTED FOR CONNECTING A HOME NETWORK WITH A SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORK - The apparatus is adapted for connecting a home network with a service provider network via a broadband connection for providing Internet services and comprises a media relay for receiving a data stream of the home network in accordance with a first protocol and sending the data stream in accordance with a second protocol to the service provider network for an outgoing connection, and vice versa for an incoming connection. The media relay comprises a media device interface for linking the media relay with the home network and for separating signaling data from the media data of the receiving data stream, a signaling switch for converting the signaling data in accordance with the first protocol to the signaling data in accordance with the second protocol, a media switch for converting the media data in accordance with the first protocol to the media data in accordance with the second protocol, and a network interface for linking the media relay with the service provider network and for combining the signaling data from the signaling switch and the media data from the media switch. | 01-21-2016 |
20160007290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING MISSED EVENTS - A method of operating a device for indicating an event notification to a user comprises indicating a new event through accordingly controlling visual, audible and/or tactile indicators. A user input is received in response to the indicated event. In case a user input in response to the indicated event is not received within a first time period, sensors in the device are controlled to monitor ambient conditions and determine corresponding pattern. In case of a change in the pattern of the ambient conditions by a predetermined amount within a second time period, the new event is indicated once more to the user. | 01-07-2016 |
20160007062 | BROADCAST CONTENT MANAGEMENT BASED ON CATEGORIZATION - A method for a content provider to manage broadcast content including selecting content to be broadcast, determining a category of the selected content, tagging the selected content and transmitting the tagged selected content to a content aggregator for broadcasting. Also described is a method for a content aggregator to broadcast content including receiving selected content from a content provider, determining when to broadcast the selected content and determining whether to broadcast any part of the selected content prior to a schedule time and broadcasting the selected content responsive to the determining step. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006700 | PRIVACY AGAINST INFERENCE ATTACKS UNDER MISMATCHED PRIOR - A methodology to protect private data when a user wishes to publicly release some data about himself, which is can be correlated with his private data. Specifically, the method and apparatus teach comparing public data with survey data having public data and associated private data. A joint probability distribution is performed to predict a private data wherein said prediction has a certain probability. At least one of said public data is altered or deleted in response to said probability exceeding a predetermined threshold. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005213 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENRICHING THE CONTENT OF A DEPTH MAP - A method and device for enriching the content associated with a first element of a depth map, the depth map being associated with a scene according to a point of view. Thereafter, at least a first information representative of a variation of depth in the first element in the space of the depth map is stored into the depth map. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATION - Method of recommendation of an item to a user, said method comprising:
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20160004874 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRIVACY PRESERVING MATRIX FACTORIZATION - A method includes: receiving a set of records from a source, wherein each record in the set of records includes a set of tokens and a set of items, and wherein each record is kept secret from parties other than the source, receiving at least one separate item, and evaluating the set of records and the at least one separate item by using a garbled circuit based on matrix factorization, wherein the output of the garbled circuit includes an item profile for each at least one separate item. An apparatus includes: a processor that communicates with at least one input/output interface, and at least one memory in signal communication with the processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform the method. | 01-07-2016 |
20150382083 | PICTORIAL SUMMARY FOR VIDEO - Various implementations relate to providing a pictorial summary, also referred to as a comic book or a narrative abstraction. In one particular implementation, a first portion in a video is accessed, and a second portion in the video is accessed. A weight for the first portion is determined, and a weight for the second portion is determined. A first number and a second number are determined. The first number identifies how many pictures from the first portion are to be used in a pictorial summary of the video. The first number is one or more, and is determined based on the weight for the first portion. The second number identifies how many pictures from the second portion are to be used in the pictorial summary of the video. The second number is one or more, and is determined based on the weight for the second portion. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381424 | METHOD OF AND REQUEST SERVER FOR PROVIDING A PREFERENCE VALUE FOR FEATURES OF AN APPLICATION - An application running on a processing device sends a request for preference values for features to a request server that analyses the request and then generates a request that is sent to a device storing preference values. The device returns a response comprising stored preference values for the features. In case the response does not provide values for all the features requested by the application, the request server generates a further request that is sent to a further device that returns a response. The responses are then used to generate a response that is sent to the application that uses the preferences. While the recipients of the requests sent by the request server may vary, it is preferred that the first request is sent to a device storing preferences selected by a third party and that the second request is sent to a device storing user preferences. The invention can provide a way to provide preferences for a plurality of different applications without having to specify the preferences separately for each application, and it can also provide preferences from a plurality of sources. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESH SIMPLIFICATION - The invention provides a method and apparatus for mesh simplification. In the method, an iterative edge collapse transformation is carried out to simplify an input mesh model, each edge collapse unifying two adjacent vertices of the input mesh model into a single vertex. The method further comprises: carrying out an edge collapse for an edge formed by two adjacent vertices in ascending order of a cost value which is determined as a function of the scales of the two adjacent vertices in the hierarchical repetitive structure of the input mesh model and geometric attributes of the two adjacent vertices. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379617 | PARENTALCONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA SERVICE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for parental control of purchases by a child of the parent are described including transmitting a notification to the parent that the child of the parent is attempting to make an online purchase, receiving verification that the parent is authorized to approve the online purchase, transmitting a screen to the parent's receiving device for the parent's approval or disapproval of the purchase and receiving the parent's approval or disapproval. Also described are a method and apparatus for a parent to pre-select online media content purchases of a child of the parent including receiving a request to access a parental control system, receiving verification that the parent is authorized to approve the online purchase, generating and rendering a program guide including media content titles and media content ratings and receiving parental selection of media content approved for purchase by the child. | 12-31-2015 |
20150373473 | METHOD FOR MEASURING HOA LOUDNESS LEVEL AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING HOA LOUDNESS LEVEL - The invention relates to Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) Content Loudness Level Adjustment. A method for adjusting a loudness level of a HOA audio signal on a transmitting side comprises steps of measuring loudness of only the W-channel of the HOA audio signal, and leveling HOA master gain for all channels of the HOA signal according to the measured loudness of the W-channel. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DIRECTIONS OF UNCORRELATED SOUND SOURCES IN A HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS REPRESENTATION OF A SOUND FIELD - Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) represents three-dimensional sound. HOA provides high spatial resolution and facilitates analysing of the sound field with respect to dominant sound sources. The invention aims to identify independent dominant sound sources constituting the sound field, and to track their temporal trajectories. Known applications are searching for all potential candidates for dominant sound source directions by looking at the directional power distribution of the original HOA representation, whereas in the invention all components which are correlated with the signals of previously found sound sources are removed. By such operation the problem of erroneously detecting many instead of only one correct sound source can be avoided in case its contributions to the sound field are highly directionally dispersed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373324 | Method And Apparatus For Context-Based Video Quality Assessment - Spatial distortion (i.e., when a frame is viewed independently of other frames in a video sequence) may be quite different from temporal distortion (i.e., when frames are viewed continuously). To estimate temporal distortion, a sliding window approach is used. Specifically, multiple sliding windows around a current frame are considered. Within each sliding window, a large distortion density is calculated and a sliding window with the highest large distortion density is selected. A distance between the current frame and the closest frame with large distortion in the selected window is calculated. Subsequently, the temporal distortion is estimated as a function of the highest large distortion ratio, the spatial distortion for the current frame, and the distance. In another embodiment, a median of spatial distortion values is calculated for each sliding window and the maximum of median spatial distortion values is used to estimate the temporal distortion. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373301 | INPUT FILE TRANSFORMER - A method for processing an input file containing frames of video commences by first creating a source file from the input file based on how the frames of video are compressed. Thereafter, a log file is generated for the source file, the log file having information for the frames of video in the source file. The source file then undergoes processing to yield a mezzanine file in accordance with the log file information. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371433 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING THE FRONTIER BETWEEN OBJECTS OF A SCENE IN A DEPTH MAP - A method and device for establishing a frontier between a first object and at least a second object of a scene in the space of a depth map, at least a part of the first object and at least a part of the at least a second object being visible from the point of view associated with the depth map through a set ( | 12-24-2015 |
20150358466 | Call Center Direct Access - A map processor residing on a mobile device displays a call center hierarchy map based, in part, on a dialed call center number. User interactions with the map are then processed by the map processor to determine a desired call center connection. This information is used by the map processor to establish a direct connection with the desired node of the call center hierarchy map. In other instances, the mobile device interacts with a call center exchange, hierarchy map server, statistical server and a call center direct line to facilitate in providing a call center hierarchy map and a direct connection. | 12-10-2015 |
20150341696 | DUAL TELEPRESENCE SET-TOP BOX - The processing images in a telepresence system commences by establishing, at a first station, first orientation data indicative of an orientation of a first audience member relative to each of a first and second image display devices at the first station. Thereafter, the first station receives an incoming first image of a second audience member at a second station of the telepresence system, along with second orientation data indicative of an orientation of the second audience member relative to a first image capture device at the second station. The first station processes the first image for display on a selected one of the first and second image display devices, in accordance with the first and second orientation data so upon display, the image of the second audience appears to coexist in superposition with an image of the first audience member in a common environment. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341667 | VIDEO QUALITY MODEL, METHOD FOR TRAINING A VIDEO QUALITY MODEL, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VIDEO QUALITY USING A VIDEO QUALITY MODEL - A big challenge for Video Quality Measurement on bitstream-level, especially in the case of network impairment, is to predict the quality level of Error Concealment artifacts at the bitstream level before decoding the video. The present invention is based on the recognition of the fact that the effectiveness of various EC methods can be estimated from some common content features and compression technique features. The invention comprises selecting training data frames of a predefined type, analyzing predefined typical features of the selected training data frames, decoding the training data frames using the target video decoder, wherein the decoding may comprise EC, and performing video quality measurement. The video quality of the decoded and error concealed training data frames is measured or estimated using a reference VQM model. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341622 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - One aspect of the disclosed invention relates to a stereoscopic display apparatus comprising: a stereo image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first stereo image for a first image and a second stereo image for a second image; a border generation unit configured to generate a border for separating the first image from the second image; and a displaying unit configured to combine the second stereo image and the generated border with the first stereo image and display the combined stereo images. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339687 | PROPOSING OBJECTS TO A USER TO EFFICIENTLY DISCOVER DEMOGRAPHICS FROM ITEM RATINGS - The current methods and apparatus provide a system that learns a private attribute, such as gender, based on at least one iteration of presenting an item to a user and receiving ratings from the user for this item. In an exemplary embodiment, the system may solicit ratings for strategically selected items, such as movies for example, and then infers the user's gender. Based on the assessed confidence in the demographic selected, the system may repeat the selection, presentation and ratings of another item. The proposed system can strategically select the sequence of items that are presented to the user for a rating. By selecting the next item to be rated based on a maximum posterior probability confidence, a demographic with a certain threshold of confidence can be inferred. The inventive arrangements are based on novel usage of Bayesian matrix factorization in an active learning setting. Such a system is shown to be feasible and can be carried out using significantly fewer rated items than previously proposed static inference methods. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339603 | METHOD AND APPARAUTS FOR MAPPING PROCESS INFORMATION ONTO ASSET DATA - Asset-driven work flow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. These descriptive “contracts” enable readily matching relevant activities to create a desired output. The graphical model can be used to design and track real world productions. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. The activity models produce and/or consume assets that represent the deliverables that are transferred between activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front. Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. This process can be repeated until the beginning of a process pipeline is reached. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339578 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for providing recommendations on a multimedia device. The method includes labeling a sampling of content with associated features. The method further includes training a classifier based on the labels. The method also includes classifying a set of movies based on the movies' features. Additionally, the method includes mapping a classification space of the movies to a well-distributed space. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339493 | PRIVACY PROTECTION AGAINST CURIOUS RECOMMENDERS - A method and apparatus for protecting user privacy in a recommender system are described including determining what information to release to a user for a movie, transmitting the information to the user, accepting obfuscated input from the user and estimating the user's non-private feature vector. Also described are a method and apparatus for protecting user privacy in a recommender system including receiving movie information, accepting a user's movie feedback, accepting user's private information, calculating an obfuscation value and transmitting the obfuscation value. | 11-26-2015 |
20150338673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIEWING AN IMAGE - It is provided a method for viewing an image that is wider or higher than the display screen, wherein, the image is evenly divided into two portions by using a line passing through centers of larger edges of the image compared to the display screen. The method comprises, at the side of shutter glasses, the steps of receiving a message indicating display of a first portion of the two portions; turning dark of the shutter glasses and turning refraction direction of the shutter glasses towards a first position; turning transparent of the shutter glasses; receiving a message indicating display of a second portion of the two portions; turning dark of the shutter glasses and turning refraction direction of the shutter glasses towards a second position; and turning transparent of the shutter glasses. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334285 | REMOTE CONTROL OF A CAMERA MODULE - A method performed by a camera module ( | 11-19-2015 |
20150332705 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MICROPHONE ARRAY CALIBRATION - A method, apparatus and system for microphone array calibration include recording audio using at least two microphones, which comprise an array of microphones, using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining an attenuation factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones of the array of microphones, using a target microphone of the array of microphones, determining a delay factor for audio originating from respective locations of other microphones of the array of microphones and implementing the determined attenuation factor and delay factor for removing audio originating from respective locations of the other microphones of the array of microphones from an audio signal captured by the target microphone. The method, apparatus and system then further include removing audio originating from respective locations of the other microphones of the array of microphones from an audio signal captured by the target microphone using beam-forming techniques. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING A HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS REPRESENTATION FOR A SOUND FIELD - The invention improves HOA sound field representation compression. The HOA representation is analysed for the presence of dominant sound sources and their directions are estimated. Then the HOA representation is decomposed into a number of dominant directional signals and a residual component. This residual component is transformed into the discrete spatial domain in order to obtain general plane wave functions at uniform sampling directions, which are predicted from the dominant directional signals. Finally, the prediction error is transformed back to the HOA domain and represents the residual ambient HOA component for which an order reduction is performed, followed by perceptual encoding of the dominant directional signals and the residual component. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332183 | FULFILLMENT TRACKING IN ASSET-DRIVEN WORKFLOW MODELING - Asset-driven workflow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. The activity models produce and/or consume assets that represent the deliverables that are transferred between activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. This process can be repeated until the beginning of a process pipeline is reached. A real world process pipeline can then be formed based on the model and the model can be used to track the status of the real world production pipeline. | 11-19-2015 |
20150331959 | MERGED WEB CONTENT - Requested and unrequested portions of a web page are merged by a dynamic content combiner before the web page is transmitted to a requester. The dynamic content combiner obtains unrequested portions such as advertising and requested portions such as web page content and constructs the web page before transmission. It then mergers at least a portion of the requested and unrequested portions into a single displayable object before transmitting the web page to a requester. | 11-19-2015 |
20150326466 | INFORMATION PROPAGATION IN A NETWORK - Method for managing information propagation in a network, said information being propagated from a source to a receiving node device through a path of the network comprising at least one edge of the network directly linking a first and a second relaying node devices, wherein the method comprises a step of allocating to the second relaying node device a score each time that the receiving node device receives a useful content from the source through said path, wherein the first relaying node device is able to receive information from the second relaying node device at a given rate, and the method further comprises a stop of periodically updating said rate as a function of a sum of the scores allocated to the second relaying node device | 11-12-2015 |
20150324077 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A MOBILE DEVICE IN A NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED DISPLAY DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A method for activating a mobile device in a network is disclosed wherein the network further comprises at least one display device coupled to a sensor. This method comprises:
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20150317647 | Method And Apparatus For Correlating Biometric Responses To Analyze Audience Reactions - A method for analyzing audience reaction while viewing audio-visual content commences by first collecting biometeric data from audience members while viewing the audio-visual content. The collected biometric data undergoes cross-correlation to establish a correlation graph having nodes indicative of individual audience member's reaction to the viewed audio-visual content. Thereafter, edges in the graph corresponding to nodes, which are similar, are identified to indicate audience members reacting similarly to the viewed content. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317575 | ASSET-DRIVEN WORKFLOW MODELING - Asset-driven workflow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. These descriptive “contracts” provide a mechanism to match relevant activities necessary to create a desired output. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front. Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. A real world process pipeline can then be formed based on the model and the model can be used to track the status of the real world production pipeline: | 11-05-2015 |
20150312678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DOMINANT SOUND SOURCE DIRECTIONS IN A HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS REPRESENTATION OF A SOUND FIELD - In Higher Order Ambisonics, a problem is the tracking of time variant directions of dominant sound sources. The following processing is carried out: from a current time frame of HOA coefficients, estimating a directional power distribution of dominant sound sources, from said directional power distribution and from an a-priori probability function for dominant sound source directions, computing an a-posteriori probability function for said dominant sound source directions, depending on said a-posteriori probability function and on dominant sound source directions for the previous time frame, searching and assigning dominant sound source directions for said current time frame of said HOA coefficients. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312263 | SOCIAL NETWORK PRIVACY AUDITOR - A privacy auditor determines discrepancies between user privacy settings in a social network and installed applications. The privacy auditor can employ a privacy determinator that tests an installed application on various privacy levels to determine actual privacy settings of the installed application. The privacy auditor then uses a privacy comparator to derive differences between the actual privacy settings of the installed application and the user privacy settings from the social network. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING A MP4 FILE CONTAINER WHILE GENERATING SUCH A FILE - A method for enabling playback of an MP4 file wrapper/container during generation of the same includes the creation of an auxiliary index file at initiation of the MP4 file generation and the updating of the auxiliary index file simultaneously with the MP4 file being generated. The auxiliary index file provides the instantaneous playback of a partially generated MP4 file container up to a last data block written to the MP4 file wrapper. Furthermore, by fixing the size of the index records that make up the auxiliary index file, a device can seek to any index record within the auxiliary index file at constant time and read the attributes of a frame such as data block location and frame offset. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305137 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH COMBINATION HEAT SINK/BLOWER OR FAN ASSEMBLY HAVING AIR DUCT - An electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. A heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly lies over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is dispersed. The assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. An air current generating electric device is disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board. An air duct extends from the exhaust opening of the air current generating electric device to exhaust apertures on at least one side wall of the electronic device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304705 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - This method for synchronizing two versions of a multimedia content, each version comprising a plurality of video frames, comprises steps of:
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20150304274 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING DHCP CLIENT - It is provided a method for configuring a DHCP client. The method comprises the steps of detecting state of the DHCP client; in response to transition to Bound state, storing network address and at least one of configuration parameters of the DHCP client, which is allocated by a DHCP server; and when the DHCP server is unreachable, in response to transition to Selecting state, restoring the network address and the at least one of configuration parameters without changing the Selecting state of the DHCP client. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302825 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - It is provided a method for displaying content on a screen where light intensity of each pixel of the screen is adjustable. The method comprises steps of receive a touch of a touching object on the screen; and adjusting light intensity so as to make surrounding pixels of a contact point between the touching object and the screen have a higher intensity and rest pixels have no light intensity or a lower light intensity, wherein, the lower light intensity enables content displayed on corresponding pixels perceptible to a user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302562 | PROCESSING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES - Various implementations address high dynamic range (“HDR”) images. In one particular implementation, a low dynamic range (“LDR”) image is generated from an HDR image, and information is generated allowing the HDR image to be reconstructed from the LDR image. The LDR image and the information are encoded. In another implementation, a signal or signal structure includes an LDR section including the encoded LDR image, and an information section including the encoded information. In another implementation, the encoded LDR image and the encoded information are both decoded. The HDR image is then reconstructed based on the decoded LDR image and the decoded information. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301998 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE - Various implementations address user interfaces, and providing useful information in a user interface. Examples include providing a history of applications used to access an item or communicate with an item, or a list of serially-tasked applications that were accessed after the item was accessed, or even accessed from the item. In one particular implementation, item information is provided identifying an item. The item information allows the provision, on a user-interface, of an indication of the item. An application is determined that can be used to interact with the item. The application is determined based on a dynamic attribute of the item. Application information is provided identifying the application. The application information allows the provision of an indication of the application concurrently with provision of the indication of the item. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301706 | IDENTIFIABLE TABBING FOR BOOKMARKS IN ELECTRONIC BOOKS - Methods and apparatus for tabbing electronic documents such as e-books allows users to associate selected content in an electronic document with tabs that can be displayed and organized in a versatile manner, including grouping tabs with different colors, each color corresponding to a different category, e.g., a different character in a story, selecting some colors to display, selecting display of tabs added by other readers, adding metadata to each tab indicating selected content, highlighting selected content, and/or condensing the electronic document to include only content associated with selected tabs. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301126 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EARLY DETECTION OF POWER FAILURE IN AN EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLY - An external power supply converts AC power to DC Power for a device. The external power supply and the device comprise circuits that provide early AC input failure detection so that the device can take measures such as to safe keep data as long as the external power supply continues to provide DC power to the device. | 10-22-2015 |
20150294672 | Method And Device For Decoding An Audio Soundfield Representation For Audio Playback - Soundfield signals such as e.g. Ambisonics carry a representation of a desired sound field. The Ambisonics format is based on spherical harmonic decomposition of the soundfield, and Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) uses spherical harmonics of at least 2 | 10-15-2015 |
20150294470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPARITY VISUALIZATION - A method and system to generate and visualize the distribution of disparities in a stereo sequence and the way they change through time. The data representing the disparities are generated using the disparity and confidence maps of the stereo sequence. For each frame, a histogram of disparity-confidence pairs is generated. These data are later visualized on the screen, presenting the disparity for the full sequence in one graph. | 10-15-2015 |
20150293694 | ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - A method of creating a virtual keyboard is disclosed. The method comprises displaying the virtual keyboard on a touch screen in response to a user input; enabling a user to add a first virtual key to the virtual keyboard to form a first virtual keyboard; and storing in a memory the first virtual keyboard and a signature associated with the first virtual keyboard. | 10-15-2015 |
20150271539 | MANAGEMENT METHODS OF A VIDEO DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING VIDEO DEVICE - The invention relates to the remote management of a digital terrestrial television device. In order to improve the terrestrial television reception, a control command is transmitted by a distant remote management server through another communication channel, the control command requesting the video device to set at least a digital terrestrial television parameter related to a service list management. | 09-24-2015 |
20150271490 | LUMA AND CHROMA ENCODING USING A COMMON PREDICTOR - There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder ( | 09-24-2015 |
20150270966 | AGGREGATOR-OBLIVIOUS ENCRYPTION OF TIME-SERIES DATA - A processor of a device of user i in an aggregator-oblivious encryption system with n users encrypts a message {right arrow over (x | 09-24-2015 |
20150264392 | INTER-IMAGE PREDICTION METHOD AND DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE - A method and device for predicting a block of pixels of an image for encoding/decoding same. The method comprises a step of defining a causal vicinity of said block to be predicted, a step | 09-17-2015 |
20150255121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITION OF SUBTITLES - Embodiments of the invention include a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be broadcast or stored on high capacity optical media, e.g. the Blue-ray Disc. Embodiments of the invention include abilities for improved authoring possibilities for the content production to animate subtitles. For subtitles that are separate from AV material, a method includes using one or more superimposed subtitle layers, and displaying only a selected part of the transferred subtitles at a time. Further, colors of a selected part of the displayed subtitles may be modified, e.g. highlighted. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254974 | MULTIPLE FUNCTION ARRANGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The current invention relates to the reuse of elements in an device to provide multiple functions of function indication, remote control command reception and touch sensor. The device comprises an indicator element providing a first function of indicating to a user the operating state of the said device, a receiver element providing a second function of reception of remote control commands from a remote control device, means for combining the indicator element and the receiver element to provide a third function of touch sensor. The indicator element provides the first function during a subsequent second period of time and the receiver element providing the second function during the second of the time, the first and the second period of time being continuously alternated. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WRITING TO A NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM - A process for cataloguing information to an LTO storage device is disclosed. The process begins by writing content data the user wishes to store to an LTO storage device. In one embodiment, such content is written such that each portion of the content is associated with a file. Once the LTO storage device has stored the content, a user creates a catalog identifying particular locations on the LTO storage device associated with particular files of the content the user wishes to recall in the future. The catalog is then stored on a separate memory for later use. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF READING DATA FROM A NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIUM THROUGH THE USE OF A CATALOG - A process for obtaining information from an LTO storage device using a catalog such as the catalog is disclosed. At the outset, a user requests to access one or more files from the LTO storage device. The user then accesses a catalog constructed in the manner discussed above that indicates the location of the desired files on the LTO storage device. From there, the user commands an appropriately configured LTO robot to seek out the desired files located on the LTO storage device. Upon receiving the commands, the LTO robot locates the desired file by reading the entire tape, decodes the desired files and delivers them to the user. | 09-10-2015 |
20150250069 | VERTICAL SLIDING DOOR FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device is described including a sliding vertical door, the sliding vertical door having a top, a bottom, and two vertical sides, wherein each of the two vertical sides has a locking latch at a bottom edge of each of the two vertical sides, the locking latch being between two vertical encouraging slots in each of the two vertical sides of the sliding vertical door, and wherein the siding vertical door has a front face, the front face of the sliding vertical door having a door handle positioned at, near or adjacent to the bottom of the sliding vertical door, the door handle being centered horizontally on the sliding vertical door and a sliding door bay, the sliding door bay having a bottom edge, the sliding door bay having side walls, the side walls having grooves therein. | 09-03-2015 |
20150248872 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AMBIENT LIGHTING COLOR DETERMINATION - A method and an apparatus for determining a color to be emulated by an ambient light source associated to a display are described. A saliency map is determined for an image displayed on the display. A subset of pixels of the image with a saliency below a given threshold is selected based on the saliency map. The color to be emulated by the ambient light source is then determined from color values of the determined subset of pixels. | 09-03-2015 |
20150244860 | PROVIDING ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION OVER CALLER ID - Additional information and/or status messages are routed to a telephone 124 by a gateway device 110 via a caller identification (ID) process. The gateway device determines when a status or information message is available and distributes the message to the telephone when a user answers the telephone. In a similar fashion, a user can call a special telephone number on a plain old telephone system (POTS) 202, hang up the telephone 204 and receive a status/information message as a caller ID message upon a callback by the POTS. | 08-27-2015 |
20150234118 | PANEL ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - A system and method for illuminating at least a portion of an exterior surface of an apparatus or enclosure are described. A light pipe has a first portion for receiving light from a source inside the enclosure, and a second portion for directing the received light onto the exterior surface of the enclosure. | 08-20-2015 |
20150222627 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURELY ACCESSING A WEB SERVICE - A method for securely accessing a web service by a web application running in a browser on a user device through a network is disclosed. The web service is hosted by at least a device among which a local device is being accessed by the user device. The local device comprises a global name that uniquely identifies the local device and a certificate associated to the global name. The method further comprises a step of sending by the web application to the network a request for accessing the web service by addressing a generic name that identifies any device hosting the web service; a step of receiving from the network by the web application a response to the request comprising the global name identifying the local device hosting the web service; a step of connecting to the local device by addressing the global name in case the received global name is comprised in a list; a step of receiving the certificate from the local device; and a step of securely accessing the web service in case the certificate associated to the global name is verified by the browser. A generic name is a name under which any local device is accessible, that is, is common to all devices hosting the web services. The list comprises global names of devices being trusted for hosting the web service. | 08-06-2015 |
20150221131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3D MESH DE-NOISING - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing a 3D model. To preserve fine structures while de-noising a 3D mesh model, the local structural information around a vertex is captured when designing a de-noising filter. In particular, for a current vertex to be pro cessed, a path, for example, a geodesic path, is determined between the current vertex and each neighboring vertex. For each mesh edge along the path, local variations are calculated for the two end vertices of the mesh edge using a covariance matrix, and a geometric vari ation for the mesh edge is calculated as the difference between the two local variations. Then structural information for the region between the current vertex and a neighboring vertex is calculated as a function of the geometric variations for mesh edges along the path, for example, as the maximum geometric variation along the path. The present principles can also be adjusted to be used in de-noising 3D point-based models. | 08-06-2015 |
20150215619 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING GRADUAL TRANSITION PICTURE IN VIDEO BITSTREAM - The invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting a gradual transition picture in a bitstream. The method comprises: accessing a bitstream including encoded pictures; and determining a gradual transition picture in the bitstream using information from the bitstream without decoding the bitstream to derive pixel information. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215401 | STORAGE AREA NETWORK SEARCHING UTILITY - A method and system for accessing files in a non-volatile storage medium is disclosed. The accessing files in a non-volatile storage medium includes choosing an active directory of a storage area network, the storage area network being a part of a non-volatile storage medium; selecting an edit decision list associated with the active directory; performing a search of the active directory, resulting in a plurality of files found on the storage area network; placing the plurality of files in a selected folder; and linking the selected folder with the active directory in the storage area network. | 07-30-2015 |
20150195477 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL - Many advanced signal receiving devices include more than one tuner. An apparatus is described that includes a first circuit operating as a first portion of a signal attenuator, a second circuit operating as a second portion of the signal attenuator and outputting a first differential output signal, and a third circuit also operating as the second portion of the signal attenuator and outputting a second differential output signal. A method is described including receiving a signal, splitting the received signal to produce a first output signal and a second output signal, the splitting being performed using a differential signal format and further being performed using only at least one of a resistor, capacitor, and inductor, and outputting the first output signal in a differential signal format and the second output signal in a differential signal format. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTRUM SENSING OF WIRELESS MICROPHONE SIGNALS - A method and apparatus for spectrum sensing for general wireless microphone signals are provided. The spectrum sensing algorithm developed makes use of the property that the autocorrelation function of a wireless microphone signal is a sinusoidal function provided that the frequency deviation is much smaller than the carrier frequency and the correlation delay is small. Based on this property, a simple spectrum sensing algorithm for the wireless microphone signal is designed by computing the auto-correlation function of the received signal and matched filtering of the sinusoidal function. The tones detected are further verified to see if they are located at one of the possible wireless microphone frequencies. | 07-02-2015 |
20150189297 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTRA-ENCODING IMAGE BLOCKS, STORAGE MEDIUM CARRYING AND USE OF A PROCESSING DEVICE FOR DECODING INTRA-ENCODED IMAGE BLOCKS - Said method comprises using a processing means for quantizing a transform of a residual of an intra-prediction of the image block using a quantization parameter value and encoding the quantized transform, further using a processing means for determining that an already used quantization parameter value and corresponding coding cost are available in a storage means, the already used a quantization parameter value being already used for quantizing of a further image block close resembling the image block or having a same complexity as the image block and using the already used quantization parameter value, the corresponding coding cost and a target bit rate for determining the quantization parameter value. Thus, the quantization parameter value can be determined such that flickering artifacts are avoided. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186525 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE-BASED SEARCHING - A content searching technique that includes sensing at least three types of input gestures from a user, each of the at least three input gestures representative of a respective one of a search term, a class of assets to be searched and a location to be searched. The sensed at least three types of input gestures are translated into the search term, the class of assets to be searched and the location to be searched. The specified location is searched for the class of assets corresponding to the search term. A list of assets residing or available from at the searched location corresponding to the search term are presented in a user interface display. | 07-02-2015 |
20150179228 | SYNCHRONIZED MOVIE SUMMARY - The present invention relates to a method for providing a summary of an audiovisual object. The method comprises the steps of: capturing information from the audiovisual object; identifying the audiovisual object; determining the time index of the captured information relative to the audiovisual object; and providing a summary of a portion of the identified audiovisual object, the portion being comprised between the beginning and the determined time index of the identified audiovisual object. | 06-25-2015 |
20150178772 | USER CONTROL OF TARGETED ADVERTISING - A web advertisement classifier for embedded advertisements in a web page includes detecting whether an advertisement is a contextual advertisement; detecting whether the advertisement is a retargeted advertisement; and detecting whether the advertisement is a behaviorally targeted advertisement. Classified advertisement suppression is provided that includes identifying one or more previously-visited web pages; visiting the one or more web pages chronologically identifying one or more target web pages having a content association that is a same content association had by the advertisement; skipping the one or more target web pages; and saving the resultant click stream. | 06-25-2015 |
20150177953 | USER INTERFACE DISPLAYING SCENE DEPENDENT ATTRIBUTES - A method and apparatus for interacting with content data is provided. A current time point for a frame of the content data is determined and at least one user selectable media object included in the frame at the current time point and that occurs at least one further time point of the content data is identified. At least one media object identifier associated with the identified at least one user selectable media object is acquired a user interface display image including the frame of content and the at least one media object identifier is generated. The user interface display image enables selection, by a user, of the at least one media object identifier and automatically initiating playback of the content at the at least one further time point in response to selection of the at least one media object identifier. | 06-25-2015 |
20150156450 | DATA RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD RELATING TO A TIME SHIFTING FUNCTION ON A RECORDING MEDIUM - The invention relates to a device and a method for recording data on a recording medium. The invention relates to the implementation of the timeshift function in a part of said recording medium called the timeshift buffer memory having a size defined in terms of recording capacity. For the timeshift buffer memory, a first threshold defines a capacity limit, a second threshold defines a recording time limit. The device records the data in the timeshift buffer memory as long as the second threshold is not reached and when the second threshold is reached before the first threshold, the processor truncates the start of the timeshift buffer memory when the data being read are not located at the start of the buffer memory or moves to reading the data of the timeshift buffer memory when the data being read are located at the start of the timeshift buffer memory. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156063 | DEVICE AND A METHOD AT THE DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING A WIRELESS INTERFACE - The present invention concerns a device comprising a first network interface, a wireless network interface and a network configuration module adapted to configure the wireless network interface, so that, when the wireless network interface is disabled, if the device is connected to a second device through the first network interface, the second device comprising a wireless access point inter-compatible with the wireless network interface, configuring the wireless network interface into a wireless access point mode of operation, and if the device is not connected to the second device through the first network interface, configuring the wireless network interface into a wireless client mode of operation and connecting the wireless network interface to the wireless access point interface. | 06-04-2015 |
20150147000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSION OF IMAGES - A method and an apparatus for improving a main image by fusing the richer information contained in a secondary image are described. A 3D structure of objects contained in the secondary image is retrieved and a parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is generated using the 3D structure. For this purpose a camera pose for which a projection of the 3D structure of the objects contained in the secondary image best resembles the perspective in the main image is determined and the parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is synthesized based on the determined camera pose. The parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is then fused with the main image. | 05-28-2015 |
20150143392 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING VIEWER REACTION TO CONTENT ELEMENTS - A method, apparatus and system for determining viewer reaction to content elements include generating a viewer feedback signal by recording biometric measurements of a viewer's reactions to viewed content, synchronizing the viewer feedback signal with a content metadata signal for the viewed content and correlating the biometric measurements in the viewer feedback signal with respective elements in the content metadata signal to determine a viewer reaction score for the respective elements in the content. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142346 | EARLY POWER FAILURE DETECTION CIRCUIT - Early power failure (EPF) detection circuit applies a rectified, unfiltered periodic waveform, at the frequency of the mains supply voltage to a threshold detector. During each cycle of the periodic waveform, the threshold detector produces a pulse voltage having a leading edge when the periodic waveform begins to exceed a threshold level associated with the threshold detector and a trailing edge when the periodic waveform ceases to exceed the threshold voltage. A microprocessor measures the length of the interval between the leading and trailing edges for indirectly measuring the magnitude (for example, RMS or peak) of the mains supply voltage. When the indirectly measured magnitude decreases below a minimum permissible, second threshold magnitude, a controlled power shutdown of the apparatus is initiated, such as by, for example, programs interrupt routine in the microprocessor. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139287 | METHOD FOR INITIATING A NON-STANDARD MODE FOR AN XDSL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY USING THE METHOD - The invention defines a method for providing an xDSL broadband transmission service between a central office and a customer premises equipment which comprises the steps: initiating a handshaking procedure between the central office and the customer premises equipment, determining an xDSL transmission standard for providing the xDSL broadband transmission service, utilizing a non standard information field during the handshaking procedure to indicate a support of a non-standard mode between the central office and the customer premises equipment, and initiating the non-standard mode, in case no synchronization is established between the central office and the customer premises equipment after the handshaking procedure. | 05-21-2015 |
20150127974 | METHOD OF STORING A DATA ITEM IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE SYSTEM, CORRESPONDING STORAGE DEVICE FAILURE REPAIR METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICES - The methods of the invention of storing a data item and the associated method of repair of a failed storage device allow exact repair of the data lost by a failed storage device in a distributed data storage system. As repaired data is exactly identical to lost data, this simplifies data integrity checking, which is appealing for distributed data storage systems that require a high level of data security. The methods and devices of the invention use erasure correcting codes that are optimized at the MBCR point such that they minimize both storage size required to store a data item and repair bandwidth required for data- and message exchange between the devices of the distributed storage system in case of repair. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF TRANSCODED CONTENT STREAMS - A method of providing a plurality of versions of a content stream with different bit-rates is suggested. According to the method a set of versions of a content stream with different bit-rates is offered to a client. A manifest part describing the offered set of versions of the content stream is submitted to the client. The client requests one version of the content stream having a specific bit-rate. The bit-rate of the versions offered to the client is dynamically selected such that the difference between bit-rates of neighbouring versions is dynamically adapted. The suggested method improves adaptive transcoding so that it uses a small manifest part based on a small set of bit-rate values distributed around the currently delivered bit-rate. In addition to that a system is suggested for implementing the method. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127648 | IMAGE DESCRIPTOR FOR MEDIA CONTENT - A method for generating image descriptors for media content of images represented by a set of key-points, fn, is recommended which determines for each key-point of the image, designated as a central key-point, a neighbourhood of other key-points, fml, whose features are expressed relative to those of the central key-point. A sparse photo-geometric descriptor, SPGD, of each key-point in the image being a representation of the geometry and intensity content of a feature and its neighbourhood is provided to perform an efficient image querying for efficient searches. The approach demonstrates that incorporating geometrical constraints in image registration applications does not need to be a computationally demanding operation carried out to refine a query response short-list. | 05-07-2015 |
20150121293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERING SYMBOLS FROM A TOUCH-SENSITIVE SCREEN - A method enables a user to enter symbols into an entry field from a touch-sensitive screen. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method is used in a touch-screen device and includes steps of: detecting touching an entry field displayed on said touch screen device; displaying a plurality of symbols in a single row in response to said touching receiving step; detecting touching a first one of said displayed symbols; and if said touching is ended by stopping touching said touch screen device, a second one of said displayed symbols is detected to be last touched in said single row, and said second one of said displayed symbols is different from said first one of said displayed symbols, entering said second one of said displayed symbols into said entry field. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117763 | IMAGE QUALITY MEASUREMENT BASED ON LOCAL AMPLITUDE AND PHASE SPECTRA - A method and system for determining a quality metric score for image processing are described including accepting a reference image, performing a pyramid transformation on the accepted reference image to produce a predetermined number of scales, applying image division to each scale to produce reference image patches, accepting a distorted image, performing a pyramid transformation on the accepted distorted image to produce the predetermined number of scales, applying image division to each scale to produce distorted image patches, performing a local distortion calculation for corresponding reference and distorted image patches, summing local distortion calculation results for image patch pairs, multiplying results of the summation operation by a positive weight for each scale, summing the results of the multiplication operation and applying a sigmoid function to results of the second summation operation to produce the quality metric score. | 04-30-2015 |
20150109992 | MULTIPLE IN MULTIPLE OUT NETWORK CODED AMPLIFY AND FORWARD RELAYING SCHEME FOR THREE NODE BIDIRECTIONAL COOPERATION - A method and apparatus are described including receiving a first signal including first data in a first time slot of a first channel, receiving a second signal including second data in a second time slot of a second channel, determining a first pre-coding matrix, determining a second pre-coding matrix, applying the first pre-coding matrix to the first data to produce pre-coded first data, applying the second pre-coding matrix to the second data to produce pre-coded second data, generating a third signal by combining the pre-coded first data and the pre-coded second data and transmitting the third signal on the first channel and on the second channel. Also described are a method and apparatus including transmitting a first signal, receiving a second signal including a first training sequence and decoding the second signal by removing the first training sequence and removing the first signal. | 04-23-2015 |
20150104148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPLACING A COMMERCIAL IN A RECORDED PROGRAM - A method of playing back, by an electronic device, a recorded program having a first commercial inserted therein is disclosed. The method comprises steps of if a date of playing back the recorded program is less than a date associated with the recorded program, playing back the recorded program including the first commercial; and if the date of playing back the recorded program is more than the associated date, replacing the first commercial in the recorded program with a second commercial and playing back the recorded program including the second commercial. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SHAPE DESCRIPTOR OF A MODEL - The invention provides a method for generating an n dimensional vector as a shape descriptor of a model, and corresponding apparatus and shape descriptor. The method comprises: determining a type element of the vector to describe the basic shape of the model; and calculating n−1 metric elements of the vector, each of which represents the percentage of all of a feature of the model falling into one of n−1 layers divided as a function of the type element. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103073 | EFFICIENT COMPRESSION OF 3D MODELS BASED ON OCTREE DECOMPOSITION - To reduce the entropy of occupancy codes of an octree and improve compression efficiency, the present principles provide a method and an apparatus for traversing sub-cells in a cell according to the geometrical property of 3D models. That is, a surface smoothness measure is calculated for each sub-cell and the sub-cells are traversed in a pre-determined order of surface smoothness measures. To compute the surface smoothness measure, a sub-cell is connected to neighboring cells of its parent cell to form triangles and angles. Subsequently, the triangle areas or angular measures are used to compute the surface smoothness measure. When the connectivity information is not available in the 3D model data, the present principles also provide a method and an apparatus for estimating the connectivity. | 04-16-2015 |
20150098572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING A HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS SIGNAL REPRESENTATION - Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) represents a complete sound field in the vicinity of a sweet spot, independent of loudspeaker set-up. The high spatial resolution requires a high number of HOA coefficients. In the invention, dominant sound directions are estimated and the HOA signal representation is decomposed into dominant directional signals in time domain and related direction information, and an ambient component in HOA domain, followed by compression of the ambient component by reducing its order. The reduced-order ambient component is transformed to the spatial domain, and is perceptually coded together with the directional signals. At receiver side, the encoded directional signals and the order-reduced encoded ambient component are perceptually decompressed, the perceptually decompressed ambient signals are transformed to an HOA domain representation of reduced order, followed by order extension. The total HOA representation is recomposed from the directional signals, the corresponding direction information, and the original-order ambient HOA component. | 04-09-2015 |
20150095940 | PLAYLIST CONTENT SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Selection of an ancillary content title for inclusion in a content play list with a digital cinema feature occurs by first determining the format attributes (e.g., aspect ratio, image stereoscopy, frame rate and peak bit rate) associated with the digital feature. In response to operator identification of a desired digital ancillary content title, a determination is made to determine if that ancillary content title has format attributes at least compatible with the format of the digital feature. If so, the ancillary content title is added to the play list. Otherwise, the operator receives a warning, which depending on the compatibility determination can be overridden. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093097 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - It is provided a method for resuming an interrupted session of multimedia content with a rendering device. It comprises the steps of reading a status information of the interrupted session, said information being stored in a portable device; and resuming the session of the multimedia content based on the status information read. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092983 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATION FREE GAZE TRACKING USING LOW COST CAMERA - A method and device for eye gaze estimation with regard to a sequence of images. The method comprises receiving a sequence of first video images and a corresponding sequence of first eye images of a user watching at the first video images; determining first saliency maps associated with at least a part of the first video images; estimating associated first gaze points from the first saliency maps associated with the video images associated with the first eye images; storing of pairs of first eye images/first gaze points in a database; for a new eye image, called second eye image, estimating an associated second gaze point from the estimated first gaze points and from a second saliency map associated with a second video image associated with the second eye image; storing the second eye image and its associated second gaze point in the database. | 04-02-2015 |
20150074705 | PARENTAL MONITORING IN A HOME GATEWAY ENVIROMENT - The methodologies, systems and teachings disclosed herein can be embodied in gateway device that is capable of monitoring content accessed through the gateway device. Captures of screen content of the content accessed are obtained and a log of the content accessed is generated from the captured screen content. The log can then be displayed to a user who can use a remote control to navigate through the log to view the captured screen content at different instances of time. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074614 | DIRECTIONAL CONTROL USING A TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE - A method and system for navigation within a two-dimensional grid object displayed on an electronic device includes determining a starting location and a circular motion of a touch gesture on the touch sensitive interface. Advancement of the circular motion of the touch gesture is mapped into a continuous navigation along an axis of the displayed grid object. The mapping into a navigation direction within the grid object is based on the starting location and the circular direction of the touch gesture. The results of the navigation, such as an indication of navigation direction and a location within the grid object are displayed. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073916 | CONTENT/ADVERTISING PROFILING - A method for providing data indicative of user engagement with content commences by first collecting data measuring user engagement with the content. The data is then aggregated in accordance with user-designated privacy constraints. Thereafter, a content profile is created for the user in accordance with the aggregated user engagement data. The content profile is then either provided to a provider of content, or used to sell services based on that content profile to the content provider | 03-12-2015 |
20150071349 | LUMA AND CHROMA DECODING USING A COMMON PREDICTOR - There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder ( | 03-12-2015 |
20150070288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING 3D INPUT - There is provided a method for providing position information in a 3D coordinates system based on user's touch position on an input device. It comprises, at the side of the input device, steps of changing orientation of the input device to a first state; determining information about touch position in response to a user's touch; determining information about orientation change between the first state and a default state; wherein, the information about the touch position and the information about orientation change are used to determine the position information in the 3D coordinates system. | 03-12-2015 |
20150065185 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TRANSMITTERS FOR A WHITE SPACE DEVICE - The invention relates to a wireless home gateway apparatus and methods of wirelessly delivering audio and/or video programs between a home gateway and a client and mitigating interference thereon. Specifically, the present invention relates to transmitting an audio/video program on two white space channels and alternately stopping transmission on one of said channels to search for external transmissions on the white space channel. The present invention permits the wireless home gateway to continuously transmit an audio/video program to a client while periodically searching for transmitters on each of the white space channels. | 03-05-2015 |
20150065158 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SERVICE ADMISSION CONTROL - A system and broadband device for performing service admission control. The system and device being configured to grant services according to their priority level so that, when a service with low priority has been granted and a service with higher priority is requested later on, the service with low priority is cancelled and the service with high priority is granted in case a resource is not able to support both the service with low priority and the service with high priority. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062152 | 3-DIMENSIONAL LOOK-UP TABLE-BASED COLOR MASKING TECHNIQUE - A method for correcting colors in an image commences by first defining a set of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color triplets corresponding to user-selected colors defining a designated are of interest in the image to undergo color correction. The set of RGB color triplets are mapped into in a color space defined by cylindrical coordinates to create a three-dimensional look-up table (3D-LUT) that represents a first color range for the designated area of interest. The 3D-LUT undergoes adjustment to establish a second color range. Thereafter, the image is rendered using the 3D-LUT to replace colors in the designated area of interest with colors in the second color range. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061847 | METHOD TO RENDER GLOBAL 5 DOF MOTION EFFECT WITH MULTIPLE LOCAL FORCE-FEEDBACK - In order to generate force feedback data for a haptic device for providing simulated six degrees of freedom movement, a three dimensional acceleration component corresponding to the movement to be simulated is determined, a three dimensional velocity component corresponding to the movement to be simulated is determined and control signals for controlling at least three force feedback devices are determined, wherein each of the three force feedback devices provides three dimensional force effects to a fixation point associated to each of it, the three force feedback devices being arranged at defined positions with regard to each other, and the three fixation points define a geometric plane. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061845 | DYNAMIC EVENT SOUNDS - Event sounds for a multimedia system are assigned statically and/or dynamically to an event based on internal and/or external events and the like. An associator associates a sound to an event based on these factors. User related information that is implicit and/or explicit can also be used to determine an association between an event sound and an event. A controller controls which sound is played back when a particular event occurs based on the event sound association. Probabilities related to a user's preferences can also be utilized to determine which sound is played back during an occurrence of an event. | 03-05-2015 |
20150058882 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND DISPLAYING AN ALERT DURING PLAYBACK OF A RECORDED SIGNAL - A method of displaying an alert from a broadcast source in an electronic device while the electronic device is not playing back a currently received broadcast signal is disclosed. The method comprises steps of playing back a signal recorded in a first device connected to the electronic device responsive to a user command; detecting an alert from a broadcast source while playing back the recorded signal; and presenting the alert responsive to detecting the alert. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055939 | DATA ARCHIVAL ON FILM - A method for archiving a binary data bit stream onto at least one frame of film commences by encoding the binary bit stream using a prescribed set of gray levels. Thereafter, a successive one of a set of sub-frames within the at least one frame is aligned with a beam. The beam scans each successive sub-frame to expose each of a successive set of data cells within that sub-frame with light at a gray level corresponding each of a set of bits to be written within each successive data cell. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055882 | VEXTEX CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROTATED THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) COMPONENTS - A 3D model can be modeled using pattern-instance representation, wherein an instance component may be represented as transformation (for example, rotation, translation, and scaling) of a pattern. Quantization errors may be introduced when encoding rotation information, causing different vertex coordinate errors at different vertices of an instance. To efficiently compensate the vertex coordinate errors, an upper bound can be estimated for the vertex coordinate error of a vertex. Based on the upper bound, the codec decides whether the vertex coordinate error of the vertex needs to be compensated, and decides a quantization parameter for compensating the vertex coordinate error if compensation is needed. The upper bound can be estimated at both the encoder and decoder, and thus, no explicit signaling is needed to indicate whether vertex coordinate error compensation is used or to indicate the quantization parameter for the vertex coordinate error. | 02-26-2015 |
20150052556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QAM MODULATOR CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION HAVING A PLURALITY OF MODES - Content distribution systems, methods and user interfaces are described wherein a modulator dynamically duplicates output of multiple channels, a plurality of receivers are individually tuned to one of the multiple channels, wherein a single transport stream can be sent on the multiple channels to each of the desired receivers and wherein the distribution can occur in multiple modes, and user interfaces which allow a manager of the content distribution system to dynamically change the channels on each receiver so that each of the receivers can be tuned to one of the multiple channels through the user interface. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052098 | CONTEXTUALLY PROPAGATING SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE OVER LARGE DATASETS - A method for operation of a search and recommendation engine via an internet website is described. The website operates on a server computer system and includes accepting text of a product review or a service review, initializing a set of words with seed words, predicting meanings of the words in the set of words based on confidence scores inferred from a graph and using the meanings of the words to make a recommendation for the product or the service that was a subject of the product review or the service review. The search and recommendation engine is also described. | 02-19-2015 |
20150043371 | METHOD FOR TESTING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK INCLUDING A STATION AND AN ACCESS POINT - The method for testing a wireless communications network including a station and an access point comprises the steps of sending broadcast packets from the station to the access point in a lower frequency band and waiting for confirmation, calculating a packet loss in the lower frequency band based on the number of sent and confirmed broadcast packets, and calculating a packet loss for a higher frequency band by taking into account the calculated packet loss of the lower frequency band and by using a correlation function between the lower frequency and the higher frequency band. The wireless communications network is in particular a communications network according to one of the IEEE 802.11 recommendations and the broadcast packets are in particular address resolution protocol packets. | 02-12-2015 |
20150033277 | METHOD OF BUFFER MANAGEMENT FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF CORRELATED MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - The present invention concerns synchronization of correlated media presentations among two or more media devices. Each device makes a determination as to whether inter-presentation synchronization may be outside of a predetermined tolerance. If so, the device making the determination communicates its buffer and playback status to the other device. Based upon comparison of the buffer and playback status of the local presentation with the buffer and playback status of the presentation at the other device, each device makes a determination as to whether to pause play-back, so as to allow the other device to catch up, advance playback, so as to catch up with the other device, or take no action, allowing the other device to take action to correct the synchronization issue. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032945 | METHOD FOR FLASH COMPRESSED INSTRUCTION CACHING FOR LIMITED RAM/FLASH DEVICE ARCHITECTURES - Compression and the caching of decompressed code in RAM is described by using an uncompressed paged instruction caching fault method to keep all of code compressed in a FLASH memory. The method only decompresses and caches in DRAM memory the portion of code that is miming at a certain instance in time (i.e., DRAM window), which maintains a pre-fetched portion of code based on static windowing FLASH. | 01-29-2015 |
20150020121 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTENT DIRECTORY SERVER PRESENTATION - A method and apparatus for content directory server presentation is described. The method includes connecting a device to media content sources, identifying a media content source as a temporary content source, the temporary content source not permanently connected to the home network, scanning, at a periodic rate, the media content source to identify media content, the rate being higher than a rate for a media content source that is not a temporary content source, and updating a catalog of media content available to the media device based on scanning the media content source. The apparatus includes a receiver scanning media content sources to identify available media content, and a controller determining if a media content source is not permanently connected to the home network, the controller increasing a periodic rate of scanning if the at least one media content source is not permanently connected to the home network. | 01-15-2015 |
20150020096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONISING SOCIAL MESSAGES WITH A CONTENT TIMELINE - This disclosure describes a mechanism for associating a message to a specific point in time relative to the start of media content (such as video). Social messages employing these techniques can be associated to specific points in time within the particular content. For example, social messages can be associated with an opening scene that sparks social commentary and later for other arbitrary points in the media timeline. This example becomes even more relevant when a piece of media is replayed at a later time. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019670 | DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT - A method for processing a transport command at a local content controller to control the playback of shared content in synchrony with other, remote content controllers commences by first determining whether a received transport command originated from the local content controller or from at least one remote content controller. In the event of a locally originated transport command, the local content controller will prioritize the locally originated transport command with recently received transport commands. Thereafter, the local controller will transmit the locally originated transport command to at least one remote content controller for execution thereby if the locally originated transport command has priority. In the event of a remotely originated transport command, the local controller will prioritize the remotely originated transport command with recently received transport commands and then execute the prioritized transport commands in accordance with the latency between content controllers. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019660 | COMMUNICATION OF MEDIA ASSETS FROM SOCIAL PUBLICATION SERVICES - The present disclosure is directed towards having media assets that come from different social publication services be communicated to a user based on different conditions. Specifically, a determination is made from metadata associated with a media asset whether the media asset is of a particular type ( | 01-15-2015 |
20150019469 | METHOD OF RECOMMENDING ITEMS TO A GROUP OF USERS - A method for generating a recommendation item for members of a group includes registering a plurality of users as members of the group, identifying a subgroup of members of the group of users wherein the subgroup requests a recommendation item from a recommendation engine, calculating, using a multi-armed bandit algorithm, a recommendation item for the subgroup of members. The recommendation item is provided to the subgroup members for their evaluation. After evaluating the recommendation item, the individual users rate the recommendation item which updates the recommendation engine with preferences representing the members of the subgroup. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016742 | METHODS FOR COMPENSATING DECODING ERROR IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS - Encoders compress 3D images and compensate for decoding error using instance component decoders which decode instance components of the 3D image to generate decoded instance components, error calculation units which compare the decoded instance components with corresponding uncompressed instance components to calculate decoding errors, and determination units which determine if the encoded components pass a verification according to a threshold based on the decoding errors. | 01-15-2015 |
20150012822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA ASSET RECOMMENDATIONS - The present disclosure is directed towards receiving media asset recommendations for one or more users according to user profile information. A user interface can be manipulated to selected user representations and have such representations placed in different zones (305, 310, 315, 320). Based on the representations selected, corresponding user profile data that corresponds to the selected user representations can be used to acquire media asset recommendations for the one or more users that were selected. The media asset recommendations can be displayed in a recommendation area (330) as pictures, video, and/or poster art, of the recommended media assets. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009227 | COLOR GRADING PREVIEW METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for previewing a color graded image commences by first obtaining color metadata corresponding to a sample image appearance selected by a user from among a set of different sample image appearances, each sample image appearance having associated color metadata. The color metadata corresponding to the selected sample image appearance is stored with an image file the user has selected for color grading. The color metadata corresponding to the selected sample image appearance is applied to the image file to generate a preview of the image file, as it would appear when color graded with the color metadata. | 01-08-2015 |
20150009211 | METHOD FOR SETTING AND DETERMINING DIRECTIONS OF PRINCIPAL AXES OF 3D OBJECT - The invention provides a method for setting the directions of principal axes of a 3D object is provided. The method comprises: for each of any two principal axes, setting the direction of the principal axis according to at least one predefined function, with which the result calculated of the 3D object for the vertices in the positive half space of the principal axis is smaller than or equal to the result for the vertices in the negative half space of the principal axis, wherein a vertex in the positive half space of the principal axis means the one with a coordinate of the principal axis larger than 0, and a vertex in the negative half space of the principal axis means the one with a coordinate of the axis smaller than 0; setting the direction of the third principal axis of to follow the right-hand rule with said two principal axes, wherein the vector for the third axis is the cross product of the vectors for said two principal axes; and displaying a signal of the 3D object with the directions of the principal axes set according to the above steps. | 01-08-2015 |
20140380165 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPOSING A MENU - Multimedia content of exchangeable storage media, such as optical discs, may be extended by bonus content that is downloaded via Internet connection and stored on a local storage device. An improved method for integration of different menu items relating to on-disc content and downloaded content provides flexibility and a simple, low cost solution. The method for integration of downloaded bonus content into a menu comprises defining one or more placeholders within a menu, determining a storage location or naming convention for bonus content, declaring for each placeholder an attribute providing a unique association to a specific type of bonus content, providing a button image, detecting presence of bonus content data, replacing the associated placeholder by the associated button image and enabling an associated action to be taken when said button is selected. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NULL VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK IDENTIFICATION TRANSLATION - A method and apparatus are described including setting a default virtual local area network identification number of a switch to 0, receiving a data packet from a local area network interface, applying a virtual local area network header with identification number 0, if the data packet is untagged, determining if a virtual local area network identification number in a header of the data packet is a first predefined value, translating the virtual local area network identification number to a second predefined value in the header of the data packet if the virtual local area network identification number is equal to the first predefined value and forwarding the data packet to a local area network protocol stack network interface. | 12-25-2014 |
20140373053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSERTING LOCAL CONTENT INTO SATELLITE BROADCAST PROGRAMS AND EPG ON A NETWORK - The present invention relates to system of inserting locally stored content into satellite broadcast programs and electronic program guides. In particular, the system teaches a method of receiving satellite tuning parameters from a set top box, determine a request for locally stored content, and transmitting a multicast address in response to said reception of satellite tuning parameters. The locally stored content is then transmitted to the receiver over a network using the multicast address. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372871 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING WEB PAGES - A method for providing a web page in a web server accessed by a user device, comprising: obtaining access behavior information to the web page by the user; and providing page contents and page layout adaptor of the web page to the user device so that a updated web page with an adapted page layout is generated by the user device according to the access behavior information. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372480 | INTERACTIVE CONTENT SEARCH USING COMPARISONS - In interactive content search through comparisons, a search for a target object in a database is performed by finding the object most similar to the target from a small list of objects. A new object list is then presented based on the earlier selections. This process is repeated until the target is included in the list presented, at which point the search terminates. A solution to the interactive content search problem is provided under the scenario of heterogeneous demand, where target objects are selected from a non-uniform probability distribution. It has been assumed that objects are embedded in a doubling metric space which is fully observable to the search algorithm. Based on these assumptions, an efficient comparison-based search method is provided whose cost in terms of the number of queries can be bounded by the doubling constant of the embedding c, and the entropy of demand distribution, H. More precisely, the present principles show that the average search costs scales C | 12-18-2014 |
20140369666 | MANAGING TIME-SHIFT DATA - There are provided respective systems and methods for recording and playing back media content. The system for recording media content includes a segmenter ( | 12-18-2014 |
20140369410 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AN HDR VIDEO TOGETHER WITH AN LDR VIDEO, METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR RECONSTRUCTING ONE OF AN HDR VIDEO AND AN LDR VIDEO CODED TOGETHER AND PF STORAGE MEDIUM - The inventors realized that representing HDR content using LDR content and HDR residual is not unproblematic. The invention therefore proposes representing HDR content using LDR content, LDR residual and global illumination data, instead. That is, it is proposed a method of encoding an HDR video of high dynamic range together with an LDR video, the LDR video providing a lower dynamic range depiction of the HDR video content, the method comprising using processing means for encoding one video of the LDR video and a further LDR video extracted from the HDR video independent from the other video of the LDR video and the HDR video and predictive encoding the other video using the one video as reference, and lossless encoding global illumination data further extracted from the HDR video. This has the advantage that prediction is more stable and globally optimal predictors are more easily found. | 12-18-2014 |
20140366071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QAM MODULATOR CHANNEL DUPLICATION - A content distribution system allows multiple channels to be played on multiple TV sets without the need to separately tune the TV sets using a remote control, which would potentially interfere with the channels being broadcast on nearby TV sets in an environment. A modulator dynamically duplicates the output of channels, thereby allowing multiple TV sets to be statically tuned to a fixed channel. The modulator can then duplicate the output so that a single input MPEG-2 transport stream can be sent out multiple channels and sub-channels to each of the desired TV sets. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC ADVERTISING ON A SECOND SCREEN BASED ON SOCIAL MESSAGES - The disclosed methods and devices make use of a second screen to provide dynamic advertising regarding content based on social media commentary. By tracking a user's social messages based on content being viewed, advertising relating to topics of their social messages can be presented in a timely and unobtrusive manner on a second screen device. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363053 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A MOTION FIELD FOR A VIDEO SEQUENCE - A method for generating a motion field between a current frame and a reference frame belonging to a video sequence from an input set of elementary motion fields is disclosed. The method comprises performed for each pixel belonging to said current frame: determining a plurality of candidate motion vectors between the current frame and the reference frame wherein each candidate motion vector is the result of the sum of a first motion vector between the current frame and an intermediary frame belonging to the video sequence and of a second motion vector between the intermediary frame and the reference frame; and selecting a motion vector among candidate motion vectors. The method is remarkable in that elementary motion fields are obtained with different time intervals between pairs of frames and in that the first motion vector belongs to the input set of elementary motion fields and the second motion vector belongs to a set of previously selected motion vectors for other current frames of the video sequence. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362170 | VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PARTICIPANT EYE CONTACT - Eye contact between remote and local video conference participants is advantageously maintained by displaying the face of a remote video conference so the remote video conference participant having his or her eyes positioned in accordance with information indicative of image capture of the local video conference participant. In this way, substantial alignment can be achieved between the remote participant's eyes with those of the local participant. | 12-11-2014 |
20140361963 | Luminous display and method for controlling the same - A luminous display includes pixels arranged in rows and columns Control signals that are used for controlling first switches for measuring parameters of pixel cells in a first row are also used to control second switches for programming pixel cells in a second row. In this way it is possible to use a single control signal for selecting one pixel cell for programming and simultaneously selecting another pixel cell for measuring. Programming and measuring are thus performed in a time staggered manner, while the addressing is moved to the respective next row. The programming is preferably voltage programming In one embodiment the current through the pixel cell that is currently programmed is interrupted. In another embodiment the measuring is performed only after the transient current into signal holding means coupled to current control means has set. | 12-11-2014 |
20140359686 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE SERVICES - It is provided a method for providing an interactive service. At the side of a device among a plurality of devices, each being assigned one of two types, the method comprises the steps of receiving a first request associated with the interactive service requesting for responses associated with the interactive service, wherein the first request includes conditional information associated with the devices; and in response to an input from a user, if said device is of a first type, sending the response; and if said device is of a second type, sending the response only if the device meets the conditional information included in the first request. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359655 | IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - A content delivery system comprising a content database storing a content item and a content license; a video server configured to retrieve the content item and the content license from the content database and to send them to a player device; a registration server configured to receive credentials from a user player device, to generate user information from the credentials, to forward the user information to an application server; an application server configured to generate a personalised player application for the user player device; and a license server configured to receive a content license and a user identity from the user player device, to check with the registration server that a user corresponding to the user identity is authorized to access the content item, to decrypt the content license using a system license key and re-encrypt the decrypted content license using a user license key to obtain a user license, and to send the user license to the user player device. Also provided is a content rendering method. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION LINKS - This invention relates to a client device capable of receiving a multicast content through multiple communication networks, comprising at least one broadband network having a broadband bandwidth and one broadcast network for connection respectively to at least one broadband interface and one receive-only broadcast interface of the client device, wherein said client device comprises an adapter selector capable of selecting the interface to be used in order to save the broadband band-width. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A NOISE PROFILE OF NOISE IN AN IMAGE SEQUENCE - A method for generating a noise profile of noise in an image sequence and an apparatus configured to generate such a noise profile are described. An image sequence is retrieved via an input. An image analyzer then determines image regions in the image sequence suitable for measuring noise properties. A noise analyzer measures noise properties in the determined image regions. The measured noise properties are provided to a profile generator, which determines a noise profile from the measured noise properties. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354632 | METHOD FOR MULTI-VIEW MESH TEXTURING AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - A method for texturing a mesh associated with a surface representative of a scene captured in a plurality of images, wherein at least a mesh element of the mesh is at least partially visible from at least two first images of the plurality of images. As to reduce the amount of texture information associated with multi-views data representative of the scene, the method comprises for each first image ( | 12-04-2014 |
20140351855 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ON-SCREEN MENU - A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, is characterized in that one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the screen. A state is assigned to a button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled button or item may be displayed, and wherein within a group not more than one button or item may be enabled. The state of a button can be changed by commands associated with other buttons. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351764 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ON-SCREEN MENU - A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, is characterized in that one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the screen. A state is assigned to a button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled button or item may be displayed, and wherein within a group not more than one button or item may be enabled. The state of a button can be changed by commands associated with other buttons. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351736 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE REVIEW OF MULTIPLE DATASETS - A method for interactive review of two or more datasets and an apparatus configured to enable interactive review of two or more datasets are described. A first dataset and a second dataset are retrieved via an input. A processor generates representative values from the first dataset for a coarse view of the first dataset and for a fine view of the first dataset. The processor also generates representative values from the second dataset for a coarse view of the second dataset. A user interface generator includes the coarse view of the first dataset, the coarse view of the second dataset, and the fine view of the first dataset in a graphic user interface. Upon reception of a user request via a user input | 11-27-2014 |
20140351685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE REVIEW OF A DATASET - A method for interactive review of a dataset and an apparatus configured to enable interactive review of a dataset are described. A user request to review the dataset is received via user input. Responsive to this request, a processor generates representative values from the dataset for a coarse view of the dataset and for a fine view of the dataset. A user interface generator then outputs a graphic user interface displaying the coarse view of the dataset and the fine view of the dataset. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351676 | RECOVERY FROM BURST PACKET LOSS IN INTERNET PROTOCOL BASED WIRELESS NETWORKS USING STAGGERCASTING AND CROSS-PACKET FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION - A method and system for transmitting data are described including packetizing the data, performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the packetized data in order to generate at least one parity packet, appending FEC information as padding to the end of payload data of the packetized data and transmitting the packetized data and the at least one parity packet. Also described are a method and system for recovering from loss of a packet including receiving a data packet, receiving at least one parity packet, buffering the received data packet, detecting packet loss, forward error correction decoding the at least one parity packet to recover from packet loss using forward error correction information extracted from the data packet and from the at least one parity packet and forwarding the recovered packet via an internal socket. Also described is a method for staggercasting. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING ELEMENTS IN A USER INTERFACE - The disclosed methods and systems are related to searching elements of user interfaces. Without leaving the displayed user interface, such as an on-screen guide, searches can be performed on elements of the user interface, and the results of the searches may displayed in the same user interface. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348421 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A PICTURE - A method for processing a picture is disclosed. The method according to the invention comprises:
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20140347988 | NETWORK GATEWAY AND A METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS OF A DATA STREAM - A network gateway comprises a buffer and a transmission module that is configured to transmit packets of a data stream from a source device to a user device via a network medium. The packets of the data stream are received from the source device by an uplink connection between the source device and the gateway, the packets are temporarily stored in the buffer and the packets are transmitted from the buffer to the user device by a downlink connection between the user device and the gateway, such that the downlink connection depends on the uplink connection. Furthermore, the network gateway comprises a protection module that is configured to provide a protection of the uplink connection, wherein access to the network medium is reserved for the packets of the data stream of the uplink connection. Finally the network gateway comprises a control module that is configured to monitor the buffer and to send an instruction to the protection module to reduce the protection of the uplink connection if a buffer overflow is detected. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347968 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISC AUTHENTICATION AND SECURITY - A method and apparatus for disc authentication are disclosed. The authentication method includes measuring at least one physical property of a data disc, which includes at least one of an angle and an eccentricity parameter associated with two data layers of a data disc, and authenticating the disc by determining whether a match exists between the measured property and encoded information on data layer the data disc relating to the physical property. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347454 | COMPUTER DEVICE WITH POWER-CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER-CONSUMPTION OF COMPUTER DEVICE - The present invention relates to a computer device comprising a detector for detecting a user's eye and a processor. The processor is configured to determine if the position of the user's eye is kept in a zone for a first time period, and if the position of the user's eye is kept in the zone for the first time period, suspend for a second time period detecting the user's eye and determining the position of the user's eye. | 11-27-2014 |
20140346234 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL DATA STORAGE - A method and an apparatus for reading a data pattern from or writing a data pattern to a storage medium are described. During reading a pattern retrieval stage retrieves a test pattern and the data pattern from the storage medium. A decoder, which is trained with pattern elements of the retrieved test pattern by a training stage, decodes the retrieved data pattern by performing a comparison between topologies of the retrieved data pattern and representative patterns derived from the test pattern during training of the decoder. | 11-27-2014 |
20140344865 | SCHEDULER APPARATUS EMPLOYING A GOPHER AGENT FOR USE IN A TELEVISION RECEIVER - In a television system in which at least program title information for programs which are to be transmitted in the future is transmitted in advance to form a channel guide listing, apparatus is provided for searching the listing for specific user-entered information, and upon successful conclusion to the search, the apparatus schedules the tuning of the desired program, or in the alternative, notifies the viewer of the availability of the program. In those instances where descriptive text accompanies the program listing, apparatus of the invention performs a search of the text for a particular text string which may relate to the title, the star, the director, or the context of the program, among other search criteria. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340928 | SET TOP BOX HAVING LIGHT PIPE BRACKET - A light pipe bracket ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140340404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING 3D FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO - The present invention relates to a method for generating 3D viewpoint video content. The method comprising the steps of receiving videos shot by cameras distributed to capture an object; forming a 3D graphic model of at least part of the scene of the object based on the videos; receiving information related to viewpoint and 3D region of interest (ROD in the object; and combining the 3D graphic model and the videos related to the 3D ROI to form a hybrid 3D video content. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR CONTROLLABLE REPETITIVE STRUCTURE DISCOVERY BASED COMPRESSION - A method and an apparatus for 3D model compression are described. Repetitive structures in the 3D model are identified to increase the compression ratio by reducing the redundancy among the instance components. The instance components can be expressed in a “pattern-instance” representation and a decision is made as to whether to compress the “pattern-instance” representation for the 3D model. For those instance components that are determined to be encoded in “pattern-instance” representation, a verification process is employed to examine the decoding error of the instance components. If the decoding error is below a threshold value, the instance components are compressed in the “pattern-instance” representation. Otherwise, a different encoding mode is used to compress the instance components. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340174 | ACTIVE FILTER WITH DUAL RESPONSE - Based on an active low-pass filter structure comprising a main conductor line between an input port and an output port, consisting of an input conductor section, an output conductor section, and an inductance network in series between the input and output sections, the inductance network being coupled to the LC resonators, an LC resonator connected to each junction point between two network inductances, and at least one negative resistance in series with one of the resonators, a dual response filter is formed by providing an auxiliary conductor line, wherein an input end of the filter is connected to an electrical ground, forming a resonator with its own resonant frequency less than the cut-off frequency f | 11-20-2014 |
20140337912 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION ARRANGEMENT - An interconnection via a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cable between a television receiver and a set-top box, embodying an invention feature, is obtained via an HDMI cable. In HDMI specifications 1.0 through 1.3a, pin | 11-13-2014 |
20140337883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORKING MEDIA CONTENT CONSUMPTION STATUS IN A GROUP OF USERS - A method and apparatus for exchanging media content consumption characteristics in a network is described. The method includes receiving input data, the input data indicating that a first user in a user group has changed a content consumption characteristic, determining if the first user's changed content consumption characteristic is based a content consumption characteristic of a second user in the user group, and generating a message, the message including information indicating that the first user's changed content consumption characteristic is based on the content consumption characteristic of the second user in the user group. The apparatus includes a transceiver circuit that is coupled to the network and a controller circuit that receives input data from the first user, further determines if the first user's change is based on input data received through the transceiver circuit from the second user, and further generates the message that is provided. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333611 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING CONTACT(S) BETWEEN OBJECTS OF A VIRTUAL SCENE - A method for visualizing contact between a first object and at least a second object of a virtual scene commences by first associating a first identifier with first pixels associated with the first object and at least a second identifier with second pixels associated with the at least a second object. Thereafter, for at least one first pixel, at least a distance in world space between the at least one first pixel and at least one second pixel located in the neighbourhood of the at least one first pixel, is computed. Then at least a contact between the first object and the at least a second object is visualized if the at least a computed distance remains less than a first threshold distance. | 11-13-2014 |
20140331258 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NETWORKING MEDIA CONTENT CONSUMPTION STATUS IN A GROUP OF USERS - A method and apparatus for allowing users in a user group to interact and exchange media content characteristics in a network as a part of the entertainment experience is described. The method and apparatus include identifying a group of users from a plurality of users in a network, detecting a change in at least one content consumption characteristic by a first user, the content consumption characteristic associated with the first user consuming media content, providing information related to the change in the least one content consumption characteristic to other users in the identified group, detecting a change in at least one content consumption characteristic by a second user in the group of users, the change based on the information related to the change by the first user, and providing information related to the change by the second user to the other users in the identified group. | 11-06-2014 |
20140331251 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING OF SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION IN TV PROGRAMS - A method and a TV receiver for updating child protection information on the TV receiver are suggested. The suggested method scans receivable TV channels, searches for child protection information and stores such information together with the associated TV channel number in a memory. If the user switches to a new TV channel then as a first step it is checked if for the newly selected TV channel and child protection information is stored and if it is within a predefined allowed range. In this way adolescent users are effectively protected against offensive content. | 11-06-2014 |
20140330876 | METHOD FOR STORING CONTENT DATA OF A CONTENT RECEIVER IN A PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL DEVICE - A control device is designed to equip a content receiver having a first file system. This device is arranged, consecutively to a first coupling of a storage device, having a second file system incompatible with the first file system, on the content receiver, on the one hand, to instruct the content receiver to transmit to the storage device a set of control data comprising a third system of the virtual file type compatible with the first file system, so that it stores this set in at least one file of its second file system, and, on the other hand, to control the transmission of data content received by the content receiver, from the latter to the storage device, under the control of the first file system, such that the content data is stored in the storage device under the control of the third file system. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITION OF SUBTITLES - Embodiments of the invention include a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be broadcast or stored on high capacity optical media, e.g. the Blue-ray Disc. Embodiments of the invention include abilities for improved authoring possibilities for the content production to animate subtitles. For subtitles that are separate from AV material, a method includes using one or more superimposed subtitle layers, and displaying only a selected part of the transferred subtitles at a time. Further, colors of a selected part of the displayed subtitles may be modified, e.g. highlighted. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328550 | BLUR MEASUREMENT - An image is partitioned into a foreground area, a background area, and optionally a transitional area. The partitioning may be pre-defined, or it may be based on user inputs and configuration data. The partitioning may also be refined based on an initial partitioning. Blur measures are determined respectively for the partitioned areas. A blur measure for the whole image can then be determined from a weighted average of the blur measures for the partitioned areas. The blur measure for the image can be used in a video quality monitor. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327824 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITION OF SUBTITLES - Embodiments of the invention include a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be broadcast or stored on high capacity optical media, e.g. the Blue-ray Disc. Embodiments of the invention include abilities for improved authoring possibilities for the content production to animate subtitles. For subtitles that are separate from AV material, a method includes using one or more superimposed subtitle layers, and displaying only a selected part of the transferred subtitles at a time. Further, colors of a selected part of the displayed subtitles may be modified, e.g. highlighted. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327609 | METHOD FOR GAZE-CONTROLLED TEXT SIZE CONTROL, AND METHODS FOR GAZE-BASED MEASURING OF A TEXT READING SPEED AND OF A NUMBER OF VISUAL SACCADES PER TEXT LINE - For gaze-controlled text size control of a display, the invention proposes to probe, sample and record a user's horizontal gaze Signal; to subject the gaze Signal to a subband filterbank or wavelet transform; to detect line delimiters in the gaze Signal; to derive a reading speed; to determine, as a number of saccades per text line the number of locations where the gaze Signal has sudden high slope portions surrounded on both sides by portions of markedly smaller slope; to detect, based on the reading speed and the number of saccades, a too small font size Status or a too big font size Status; and to initiate a corresponding font size change. Parts of this method can be used for gaze-based measuring of text reading speed and for gaze-based measuring of number of saccades. | 11-06-2014 |
20140324914 | POSITION CODING BASED ON SPATIAL TREE WITH DUPLICATE POINTS - A method and an apparatus for constructing a spatial tree data structure corresponding to a region. According to the present principles, a cell may include therein a point or a set of points that are determined to be duplicate points. In an embodiment the duplicate points are determined based on the size of the points included within the cell The inclusion of duplicate points within a particular cell, rather than further subdividing the cell, provides coding efficiency. The present principles are particularly advantageous in the context of quadtree or octree type partitioning, and may be used in 3D mesh coding. | 10-30-2014 |
20140323156 | DETECTION OF A MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION - This method of detection of a mobile device location, comprises the steps of:
| 10-30-2014 |
20140317705 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PASSWORDS - A method for managing passwords for a user. A processor of an apparatus storing at least one received, incorrect password proposal receives via a user interface a further password proposal from a user; generates a hash value for the further password proposal; sends the hash value to the authentication server; receives from the authentication server a message indicative of whether the hash value corresponds to a correct password or to an incorrect password. In case the message indicates that the hash value corresponds to a correct password, the processor uses a distance function on each incorrect password proposal to obtain a distance value representative of a distance between the incorrect password proposal and the correct password; and sending to the authentication server hash values for password proposals for which the distance value is lower than or equal to a threshold value. Also provided are the apparatus and a computer program support. The disclosure can provide resistance to typing errors in the password proposals. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317576 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESPONDING TO USER'S SELECTION GESTURE OF OBJECT DISPLAYED IN THREE DIMENSIONS - The present invention relates to a method for responding to a users selection gesture of an object displayed in three dimensions. The method comprises comprising displaying at least one object using a display, detecting a users selection gesture captured using an image capturing device, and based on the image capturing devices output, determining whether an object among said at least one objects is selected by said user as a function of the eye position of the user and of the distance between the users gesture and the display. | 10-23-2014 |
20140307103 | DISTORTION/QUALITY MEASUREMENT - Various implementations address distortion and quality measurements. Certain implementations relate to distortions resulting in a freeze-with-skip and/or a freeze-without-skip. In one implementation, a pause term provides an indication of distortion associated with a pause arising from not displaying one or more consecutive pictures that are not to be displayed. A motion term provides an indication of distortion associated with a related change in motion. A combined indicator is based on an addition of the pause term and the motion term. In another particular implementation, a first indicator indicates distortion across one or more types of distortive effects that results from not displaying a first set of pictures. A second indicator indicates corresponding distortion with respect to a second set of pictures. The first indicator and the second indicator are combined in a non-linear manner. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307066 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION OF DISPARITY MAPS - The present invention relates to a three dimensional video processing system. In particular, the present invention is directed towards a method and system for the three dimensional (3D) visualization of a disparity map. The 3D visualization system selectably provides 3D surface visualization for disparity map, 3D bar visualization for the disparity map and the 3D line meshing visualization for the disparity map. Based on the 3D visualization system, a user can analyze the disparity map of a stereo content, and then adjusting for different viewing environments to promote comfortable viewing standards. | 10-16-2014 |
20140301639 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN ALPHA VALUE - A method for determining an alpha value for a candidate pixel of an image in an alpha matting process and an apparatus configured to perform the method are described. A selecting unit selects two or more pairs of foreground pixels and background pixels. A calculating unit calculates for each pair of foreground pixel and background pixel an associated alpha value based on a color of the foreground pixel and a color of the background pixel, as well as a probability function based on the associated alpha value. The probability function is modeled by assuming two or more characteristics of the pixels as statistically independent. A determining unit determines the pair of foreground pixel and background pixel with the highest value of the probability function. A setting unit then sets the alpha value for the candidate pixel to the associated alpha value of the determined pair of foreground pixel and background pixel. | 10-09-2014 |
20140301486 | VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT CONSIDERING SCENE CUT ARTIFACTS - A particular implementation detects scene cut artifacts in a bitstream without reconstructing the video. A scene cut artifact is usually observed in the decoded video (1) when a scene cut picture in the original video is partially received or (2) when a picture refers to a lost scene cut picture in the original video. To detect scene cut artifacts, candidate scene cut pictures are first selected and scene cut artifact detection is then performed on the candidate pictures. When a block is determined to have a scene cut artifact, a lowest quality level is assigned to the block. | 10-09-2014 |
20140298221 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESTRICTING USER OPERATIONS WHEN APPLIED TO CARDS OR WINDOWS - A user interface that displays a number of cards or windows is described where a user can move the cards in a horizontal direction freely. When a card resides in a locked zone, as defined by a user, the card will be able to be manipulated in a vertical direction, while cards that reside in a regular zone will not be able to be moved vertically. In addition, only cards that are in the locked zone can be subjected to a user action such as cutting content from the card, pasting content to the card, enlarging the contents of the card, or shrinking the contents of the card. | 10-02-2014 |
20140298215 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MEDIA COLLECTIONS - A user interface is used for selecting a time duration for a media collection shelf. The media shelf can be populated with graphical elements corresponding to selected media assets, where the cumulative time duration of selected media assets should not exceed the time duration of the media collection shelf. When placed within the media collection shelf, a graphical element corresponding to a media asset is scaled in proportion to the time duration of the media asset as compared to the time duration of the media collection shelf. Optionally, selected media assets within the media collection shelf are played back in a particular order specified by a user. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295893 | Method, Apparatus and System for Enabling the Recall of Content of Interest for Subsequent Review - A method, apparatus and system for enabling the recall of content for subsequent review include receiving an indication of interest in content displayed in proximity to a mobile communications device, identifying the mobile communications device using information in the received interest indication, and using determined communication information related to the identification of the mobile communications device to communicate, for storage in the mobile communications device, at least one of the content of interest, content data of the content of interest and location information of the content of interest. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294071 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MODIFIABLE ELEMENT IN A CODED BIT-STREAM AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A method for determining a modifiable element in a coded bit-stream is disclosed that comprises decoding a part of the coded bit-stream; modifying said part of the coded bit-stream; decoding the modified part of the coded bit-stream; and obtaining a modifiable element with an element in the decoded modified bit-stream in the case where the modified part of the coded bit-stream is compliant with the coded bit-stream; and where said element in the decoded modified bit-stream, called modifiable element, is different from an element in the decoded original bit-stream. A device for determining a modifiable element in a coded bit-stream is further disclosed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293865 | DYNAMIC EVACUATION INFORMATION DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICES - A method for delivering dynamically updated evacuation information to mobile communication devices ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140293094 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING IMAGES COMPRISING MOTION BLUR - The invention relates to a method for processing video images comprising the steps for acquiring a plurality of video images during a time interval comprising a reference time t; associating a weighting factor with each of the video images, at least two of the video images having different weighting factors; memorising the video images; weighting each of the video images memorised with the associated weighting factor; generating an image called the reference image associated with the reference time t by averaging weighted video images. According to the invention, each video image is memorised with a resolution proportional to the weighting factor associated with said video image in order to reduce the memory space necessary for the storage of images and reduce the access time to the memorised images. | 10-02-2014 |
20140290142 | DESIGN FOR RETENTION BASE TO FIXTURE ON COVER REMOVAL FIXTURE - A method and apparatus for disassembling a set top box is disclosed. The method includes providing the set top box including: a top cover, a base, and cover retention clips, wherein the cover retention clips are V or U shaped for securing the top cover to the base, providing a release fixture including a retention clip release finger, inserting the release fixture into the set top box, disengaging the cover retention clips using the retention clip release finger, and removing the top cover from the base. | 10-02-2014 |
20140289368 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MEDIA PACKAGE - A device and method direct towards the packaging, transporting and extracting of essence files, metadata files and service data files are provided. The device and method include receiving content files (e.g., essence and metadata files) and service files, the service files identifying an application to be applied to the content files, combining the content files and the service files into a media package, and transmitting the media package. The device and method also include receiving the media package containing content files and service files and extracting the content files and the service files from the media package. The media package may further include command data that describes how to process the content files and the service files as well as identification data that identifies the content files and service files. The command data, and content and service files may be encrypted. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS OF A SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAY ON A RIGID SPHERE USED FOR GENERATING AN AMBISONICS REPRESENTATION OF THE SOUND FIELD - Spherical microphone arrays capture a three-dimensional sound field for generating an Ambisonics representation, where the pressure distribution on the surface of the sphere is sampled by the capsules of the array. The impact of the microphones on the captured sound field is removed using the inverse microphone transfer function. The equalisation of the transfer function of the microphone array is a big problem because the reciprocal of the transfer function causes high gains for small values in the transfer function and these small values are affected by transducer noise. The invention minimises that noise by using a Wiener filter processing in the frequency domain, which processing is automatically controlled per wave number by the signal-to-noise ratio of the microphone array. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285487 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Bitstream of Repetitive Structure Discovery Based 3D Model Compression - A method and apparatus for generating a bitstream representative of a 3D model, and a method and an apparatus for processing the same. A 3D model is modeled by using a using a ‘pattern-instance’ representation, wherein a pattern is a representative geometry of a repetitive structure, and the connected components belonging to the repetitive structure is call an instance of the corresponding pattern. After discovery of the repetitive structures and their transformations and properties, the present embodiments provide for generating a bitstream in either a first format or a second format. In the first format, the pattern ID and its associated transformation and property information are grouped together in the bitstream, and in the second format the pattern ID, transformation property and property information are grouped together according to information type. | 09-25-2014 |