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| 20120109983 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING FILES OF A FILE SYSTEM ACCORDING TO METADATA AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD The invention relates to the field of accessing data stored in a file system and more particularly, to the optimization of accessing data of a file system. To this effect, the invention proposes a method of accessing files of a data file system according metadata relate... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106627 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING ADAPTIVE GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING Methods and apparatus are provided for video encoding and decoding using adaptive geometric partitioning. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for a region in a picture using adaptive geometric partitioning, wherein a subset of geometric partitions... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106337 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ONLINE COMPUTATION OF THE FEASIBLE RATES REGION OF A RAMDOM ACCESS NETWORK A method is intended for computing online a feasible rates region in a network using a random access MAC protocol and comprising nodes having links there between. This method comprises the steps of i) determining, for each link, a primary extreme point corresponding to ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105450 | Method for estimation of occlusion in a virtual environment The invention relates to a method for estimation of the occlusion at a point P of a virtual environment, the point P belonging to a surface (S) grouping at least some of the points of the virtual environment visible from a viewpoint. In order to improve the display whil... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084815 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTICAST SERVICES It is provided a method for providing a service guide in a network providing a plurality of multicast services, said network comprising at least one client device connected to an intermediate a first device, wherein a subset of said plurality of multicast services is be... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082240 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND EDITING APPARATUS There is disclosed an apparatus including: a source for providing encoded data of image data or audio data, the encoded data including a plurality of pieces of element data being able to be decoded independently, each of the plurality of pieces of element data including... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072689 | Method of data replication in a distributed data storage system and corresponding device The present invention generally relates to distributed data storage systems. In particular, the present invention relates to optimization of the distributed storage system in terms of number of data replicas needed to ensure a desired level of data replication.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069942 | SYNC DETECTION AND FREQUENCY RECOVERY FOR SATELLITE SYSTEMS A method of frame sync detection is described. A first and second differential correlation of a data stream is calculated, at a plurality of delay and conjugate multipliers. The first and second differential correlations are convolved with a previous set of differential... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120026713 | Electronic device comprising a removable hard disk The invention relates to an electronic device comprising a casing, a hard disk, a housing on the casing of the electronic device intended to host the hard disk, a stopper ensuring the holding of the hard disk in the housing, the device being notable in that the stopper ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110283353 | Method and a device for generating a secret value A device and a method for graphical passwords. A device displays an initial image comprising a plurality of graphical elements, each graphical element having at least two variants; receives user input to select a variant of a number of the graphical elements, thereby ge... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120023385 | Method for adding redundancy data to a distributed data storage system and corresponding device. The invention proposes a method and device for adding redundancy data in a distributed data storage system. Among others, the invention allows to keep impact on network resources low through the use of coordinated regenerating codes according to the invention.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110276991 | Optical disc with improved sensitivity for super-resolution pits and lands The optical disc comprises a substrate layer, a read-only data layer having a pit/land data structure with an average pit width, arranged in tracks on the substrate layer, and a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure disposed on the data layer, wherein a supe... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274174 | Method for coding a picture sequence, corresponding method for reconstruction and stream of coded data representative of said sequence A method for reconstruction of a picture sequence coded in accordance with a coding method specifying a set of coding tools and/or their associated coding parameters is disclosed. The pictures being divided into coding entities. The method for reconstruction according t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273551 | METHOD TO CONTROL MEDIA WITH FACE DETECTION AND HOT SPOT MOTION The invention relates to a robust method to control interactive media using gestures. A method of controlling a multimedia device, using face detection and (hot spot) motion, providing robust accuracy in issued commands, wherein the method involves the following steps: ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273539 | SINGLE CAMERA FOR STEREOSCOPIC 3-D CAPTURE A stereoscopic 3-D imaging apparatus has a camera and a wedged optical component attachable to the front of the camera. The wedged optical component is rotatable around the front of the camera using a rotating device, and the rotating device controls the rotation speed ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273529 | CODING OF DEPTH MAPS Various implementations are described. Several implementations relate to filtering of depth maps. According to a general aspect, a first depth picture is accessed that corresponds to a first video picture. For a given portion of the first depth picture, a co-located vid... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271271 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERRUPTING UPGRADES OF CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS A system and method for resolving upgrade conflicts in a content distribution system is disclosed. The present principles resolve upgrade conflicts by assigning a priority level to each upgrade and using these priorities to determine whether one or more already running ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271235 | Method for displaying a setting menu and corresponding device The invention relates to a method for displaying a settings menu. In order to optimize the graphical representation of setting carried out by a spectator, the method comprises steps for:
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| 20110268181 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE CONTROL FOR COMPRESSION OF VIDEO FRAMES A method and apparatus for controlling the rate of compression in video/image compression environments is provided. The method includes determining a scaling factor that results in a compressed file size as close to a target file size as possible. In determining the sca... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267273 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOUCH SCREEN TEXT ENTRY A method and system are disclosed for implementing touch screen text entry on a screen in a first orientation. A web page is used for presenting a touch screen display, which allows text selection via a virtual keyboard. Selected alphanumeric characters are displayed on... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264977 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA BLOCKS The present invention provides a scalable and reliable feedback suppression method for receiving and transmitting data block. The method comprises receiving at least one initial data packet of the data block which is sent by the transmitter to the multicast group of rec... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264883 | Device for selecting and configuring a default storage section and the corresponding method The present invention concerns a device and a method at the device for selecting and configuring a default storage section. The device comprises connecting means for connecting at least one storage device comprising storing means to the device, characterized in that it ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261665 | Optical disc with protection code, method for optaining the protection code and respective apparatus for reading of data The optical disc comprises a substrate layer, a read-only data layer having a pit/land data structure including user data and control data arranged in tracks on the substrate layer, and a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure disposed on the data layer, wher... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120011400 | Method for operating a remote procedure call handler in a client and a server and computer system comprising the same The invention is directed to a computer system comprising a server and a client and a method for operating a remote procedure call handler in the client and the server. The Method for operating a remote procedure call handler in the client according to the invention com... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110317768 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING BLUR IN AN IMAGE Blur is one of the most important features related to video quality. Accurate estimating the blur level of a video is a great help to accurately evaluate the video quality. An improved method is provided for estimating the blur level of videos that are compressed by a b... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUB-CHANNEL AND POWER ALLOCATION AMONG MULTICAST SESSIONS OF A MULTICAST SYSTEM USING AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME A method and apparatus are described including assigning sub-channels to different multicast sessions under the assumption that in each session all sub-channels are allocated to all users of that session and power is equally allocated to each sub-channel, then for each ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110312276 | Method for calibrating a terminal with a multi-sector antenna, and mesh network terminal The invention relates to a method for calibrating a terminal with a multi-sector antenna in a mesh broadcasting network that comprises at least one other terminal. The method includes: the selection of one sector of the terminal antenna to be calibrated, the reception b... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304696 | Time-of-flight imager An improved solution for generating depth maps using time-of-flight measurements is described, more specifically a time-of-flight imager and a time-of-flight imaging method with an improved accuracy. A depth correction profile is applied to the measured depth maps, whic... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302535 | Method for selection of an object in a virtual environment The invention relates to a method for selection of a first object in a first virtual environment, the first object being represented in the first environment with a size of value less than a threshold value. In order to make the selection of the first object more conviv... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110293247 | Video matting based on foreground-background constraint propagation A method for propagating user-provided foreground-background constraint information for a first video frame to subsequent frames allows extraction of moving foreground objects with minimal user interaction. Video matting is performed wherein constraints derived from use... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286345 | Method of determination of transmission quality of a communication link between a transmitter and a receiver and corresponding apparatus The invention proposes a method and apparatus for determination of transmission quality of a communication link between a transmitter and a receiver. Among others, the invention allows to determine the transmission quality of a communication link between a transmitter a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285882 | Camera with volumetric sensor chip A camera using a volumetric sensor chip as an image sensor is proposed. The volumetric sensor chip has three or more sensor areas shaped like simple convex polygons. Light diverting elements are arranged at edges between neighboring sensor areas of the volumetric image ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285815 | Method for processing stereoscopic images and corresponding device The invention relates to a method for video processing of at least one image of a video sequence, said video sequence comprising a plurality of image pairs, each image pair comprising a first image and a second image said first and second images being intended to form a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110258516 | Method, a device and a computer program support for verification of checksums for self-modified computer code A function of a software program is stored in a memory during execution in a device of the software program. A processor relocates the function in a region of the memory comprising dummy code, transforms the dummy code in a predictable manner, generates a predicted chec... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258299 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF CONFIGURATIONS FOR DISPLAY SYSTEMS A method and system for synchronizing configurations of a video display system are disclosed. Configuration information at a facility server and that stored at a central server are synchronized using a procedure that depends on a relationship of the central server and t... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110255385 | SYSTEM COMPRISING AN OPTICAL DISC AND AN APPARATUS FOR READING OF RESPECTIVE DATA The optical disc comprises a substrate layer and a data layer disposed on the substrate layer, the data layer having a mark/space data structure arranged in tracks which are arranged in groups being separated each by a land section. The tracks of the groups are each arr... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249540 | Laser power management for Super-RENS optical recording media Methods for operating an apparatus for reading from or writing to a Super-RENS optical recording medium, an apparatus for reading from Super-RENS optical recording media using such methods, and a Super-RENS optical recording medium suitable for such methods are describe... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110238424 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding excitation patterns from which the masking levels for an audio signal encoding and decoding are determined For the quantisation of spectral data in an audio transform encoder psycho-acoustic information is required, i.e. an approximation of the true masking threshold. According to the invention, for each spectrum to be quantised in the audio signal encoding, an excitation pa... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225312 | UNIFIED CACHE AND PEER-TO-PEER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STREAMING MEDIA IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS A method and apparatus are described including determining a number of clips to be streamed, requesting a selection of a mesh cache server to meet quality of service requirements for streaming the determined number of clips, establishing a streaming route responsive to ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225311 | UNIFIED CACHE AND PEER-TO-PEER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STREAMING MEDIA IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS A method and apparatus are described including receiving a route request message to establish a streaming route, determining a cost of a reverse route and traffic load introduced by the requested streaming route, discarding the route request message if one of wireless i... | 09/15/2011 |
