Thomas Licensing Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150331491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GESTURE BASED TOUCHSCREEN CONTROL OF DISPLAYS - Methods and apparatus are provided for a gesture based touchscreen for control of a display. The methods and apparatus capture a reference image and identify portions of the captured image corresponding to a reference image, or corresponding to a known image portion, such as a pushbutton. The method processes portions of the captured image relative to the displayed or known image portion and generates a measure, such as a difference. The method also determines whether the measure, such as the difference, exceeds a threshold for at least some period of time, to determine whether to take some action in response to the determination. The action taken could correspond to the pushbuttons on the display | 11-19-2015 |
20150324953 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SINGLE-IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION - In a method for performing super-resolution of a single image, a high-resolution version of an observed image is generated by exploiting cross-scale self-similarity, wherein up-scaling and analysis filters are used. The up-scaling and analysis filters are adaptively selected according to local kernel cost. | 11-12-2015 |
20150312621 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING A PLURALITY OF OVERLAPPING RECORDINGS OF A SAME DIGITAL VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO STREAM - In storing of a plurality of overlapping recordings of a same digital video and/or audio stream, resource optimization is obtained through reuse of allocated resources when multiple record actions are operated on a same digital video and/or audio stream. | 10-29-2015 |
20150302067 | AN ASSET HANDLING TOOL FOR FILM PRE-PRODUCTION - An asset handling tool for pre-production of a film having a script configured to: obtain a search expression from a scene of the script; send to an asset database a query for assets corresponding to the search expression; receive a set of assets matching the search expression; display at least part of the set of assets to a user; receive, from the user, a selection of an asset in the set of assets; and link the selected asset with the scene. The asset handling tool is advantageously implemented in a tool for collaborative pre-preproduction of the film and can help a director or a producer to pre-produce the film by suggesting already made assets that can be imported into the film, possibly after treatment. | 10-22-2015 |
20140133751 | METHOD FOR SUPERPIXEL LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT - A method and an apparatus for life cycle management for superpixels associated to frames of a sequence of frames are described. An area occupied by a superpixel in a frame of the sequence of frames is monitored. In case the area of the superpixel becomes smaller than a specified first value, the superpixel is terminated in the later frame. In case the area of the superpixel becomes larger than a specified second value, the superpixel is split in the later frame. | 05-15-2014 |
20140125585 | COMPUTER DEVICE OPERABLE WITH USER'S EYE MOVEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE COMPUTER DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for operating a computer device with user's eye movement. The method comprises the steps of detecting the user's eye movement, analyzing the user's eye movement to specify an eye movement pattern in the detected user's eye movement and a time period for completing the eye movement pattern, determining a command associated with a combination of the eye movement pattern and the time period and operating the device according to the command. | 05-08-2014 |
20130315438 | METHOD FOR GUARANTEEING WATERMARK EMBEDDING BY USING BIT STREAM CORRUPTION - A method for preventing the bypassing of watermark embedding in a bit-stream representative of audio/video data is disclosed. The method is remarkable in that it comprises a step of corrupting the bit-stream wherein original blocks in the bit-stream are replaced by corrupted blocks producing a non-compliant bit-stream; and a step of repairing the corrupted bit-stream by replacing each corrupted blocks, wherein at least one corrupted block is replaced by a watermarked block and at least one corrupted block is replaced by an original block, producing a compliant repaired and watermarked bit-stream. A device for watermarking and repairing a corrupted bit-stream and to a device for preparing a corrupted bit-stream, wherein the original bit-stream is representative of audio/video data are further disclosed. | 11-28-2013 |
20130070106 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A QUALITY MEASURE FOR A VIDEO IMAGE AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A QUALITY MEASURE FOR A VIDEO IMAGE - Accurately estimating the image quality of video is still difficult, especially when there is no reference video available. A method for determining a quality measure for a video image comprises selecting a measuring point, such as a MB, determining a context area around the measuring point, calculating a variance of pixel values in the context area, calculating a variance of pixel values in the measuring point, calculating a relation between the two variances of pixel values, and averaging said relations for a plurality of measuring points, wherein a quality measure for a video image is obtained. | 03-21-2013 |
20130007793 | PRIMARY SCREEN VIEW CONTROL THROUGH KINETIC UI FRAMEWORK - A method and system for generating a dynamic user interface on a second screen control device for controlling the content being displayed on primary viewing screen. The method and system utilizes view context which is based on the content being displayed, additional information, and the type of second screen control device. The view context is then used to generate the user interface on the second screen control device. | 01-03-2013 |
20120068138 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM COMPRISING TWO NONLINEAR LAYERS - The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, a data layer arranged on the substrate layer, a first nonlinear layer with a first super-resolution structure arranged above the data layer, and a second nonlinear layer with a second super-resolution structure arranged above the first nonlinear layer, the first nonlinear layer comprising a material having an increased reflectivity when irradiated with a laser beam and the second nonlinear layer comprising a material showing a transparency when irradiated with a laser beam. The first nonlinear layer comprises in particular a semiconductor material of one of the III-V semiconductor family having a low band-gap. And the second nonlinear layer comprises in particular a phase change material, for example SbTe or AIST. | 03-22-2012 |
20120011413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION IN MULTICAST OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method and apparatus are described including receiving channel condition feedback from a device over a wireless channel, determining response to the channel condition feedback if a forward error correction coding rate is sufficient for the device to recover lost data, adjusting the forward error correction coding rate responsive to the second determining act and generating forward error correction packets using the adjusted forward error correction coding rate from source data. | 01-12-2012 |
20110235637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED NETWORK SWITCH MULTICAST FUNCTIONALITY - A method in a network switch for improved multicast functionality includes receiving information regarding for which group or groups of receivers content is intended, comparing the received information with stored information regarding which receivers belong to which group or groups of receivers to identify receivers belonging to the group or groups of receivers for which the content is intended and multi-casting the content to the identified receivers. In one embodiment, the group or groups of receivers are pre-established using a device group control protocol and are distinguished using a unique identifier for each group. In an alternate embodiment, the group or groups of receivers are established by the network switch. | 09-29-2011 |
20110038597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING METADATA WITH CONTENT FOR LIVE PRODUCTION - A system for line production of a television show can include a newsroom computer system (NRCS | 02-17-2011 |
20100299699 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BURST MODE ACTIVITY - Information is transmitted indicating when a burst mode will take place which intervenes during a regular transmission mode. The information transmitted can also include information indicating how long such a burst mode will be and the contents of the burst mode where such contents can be identified as video, audio, system information, advertisements, or interactive content. | 11-25-2010 |
20100278178 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FILE SIZE ESTIMATION OVER BROADCAST NETWORKS - The apparatus and method for estimating the size of content being received before the actual transmission of the data utilizes Electronic Service Guide (ESG) information. The ESG information assists a client device in obtaining file information before the file is actually transmitted by the source of the same. In this manner, the power supply of the user device can be managed more efficiently and provide the user with the ability to make storage determinations at their user device before expending the power resources necessary to obtain (i.e., download) and store a particular file of interest to the user without requiring any user intervention. | 11-04-2010 |
20100138870 | BROADCAST CLIP SCHEDULER - A scheduler schedules multimedia content files for transmission over a broadcast network. Multimedia content files can be any sort of audio/video clips like, sports video, music video, news clip, movie sound track etc. In particular, the scheduler determines a transmission order for content files as a function of a dynamic priority value, which is determined in accordance with at least a dissimilarity measure between the content files; wherein the dissimilarity measure of the media content files is further determined as a function of the clip meta data associated with each clip. Schedule timing information and meta data information is transmitted over a broadcast network along with the clips so that receivers can do selective reception of their preferred clips, saving battery power and storage. | 06-03-2010 |
20090150921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVIEWING DIGITAL CINEMA CONTENT - A system and method for reviewing and checking cinema movies for completeness and conformity with exhibitor expectations in a time-saving and efficient manner. In one embodiment, a method for evaluating presentations is provided wherein for each presentation length, a reel time duration X is determined, points of interest are determined, and presentation length portions to be evaluated are selected as preferably including at least a duration of time which includes each of the determined points of interest. The selected portions may include a buffer portion, e.g., a period of time from about 5% of the total presentation length time before to about 5% of the total presentation length time after each of the determined points of interest. Another portion may be presentation length selected for evaluation which includes at least 10% of the total presentation length time. Such 10% selected portion is preferably selected from the center of each presentation length. | 06-11-2009 |
20090016439 | Derivation of Frame/Field Encoding Mode for a Pair of Video Macroblocks - The method wherein the field or frame mode is selected according to the following steps:
| 01-15-2009 |