Thomson Licensing

Thomas Licensing

Andrej Schewzow

Dirk Gandolph

Ralf Ostermann

Marco Winter

Jobst Hoerentrup

Hartmut Peters

Carsten Herpel

Uwe Janssen

Wolfram Putzke-Roeming

Dirk Adolph

Jobst Hörentrup

Uwe Jannsen

Jobst HÖRENTRUP

Hartmunt Peters

Method and apparatus for generating superpixel clusters A method and an apparatus () for generating a superpixel cluster for an image are described. A clustering unit () generates () an initial superpixel cluster based on an initial cluster center. The clustering unit () further generates () one or more further superpixel clusters based on one or more further cluster centers. A determining unit () determines () the one or more further cluster centers from the initial superpixel cluster. A merger () then merges () the initial superpixel cluster and the one or more further superpixel clusters to obtain the superpixel cluster for the image.

Method and apparatus for generating superpixel clusters

A method for pixel mapping between an origin superpixel in a first image and a target superpixel in a second image and an apparatus configured to perform the method. The apparatus comprises a feature vector determining unit, which determines a feature vector of an origin pixel of the origin superpixel and which further determines feature vectors of target pixels of the target superpixel. A mapping pixel selector selects a mapping pixel for the origin pixel among the target pixels based on a comparison of the feature vectors.

Method and apparatus for tracking superpixels between related images

Consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. high-definition movie players for removable storage media such as optical discs, may provide possibilities for advanced interactivity for the user, implemented as software applications. A question arising generally with such software applications is what the life cycle of such an application is, and who may control it. The invention provides a method for executing software applications within a playback device for audio-video data, wherein data from a first removable storage medium are read for a software application to be executed within said playback device, and the data comprise an indication defining a termination condition for the application. Based on said termination code and depending on how the medium holding the application is ejected, the application is terminated or may survive.

Method and apparatus for executing software applications

Local storage on player instruments provides the ability for adding further amendments and most recent supplements to the optical disc content. A problem arising with this technically applicable possibility is the protection of copyrights bound to disc and supplement data. The present invention describes a technique to ensure a security framework that is able to handle this, by creating a virtual file system (VFS) by merging optical disc data and local storage data based upon a common identifier.

Bonding contents on separate storage media

A method for generating multi-language menus comprises grouping language-dependent menu resource files on a storage medium, and selecting only those menu resource files from a group that are labeled with an indication that matches the preferred menu language of the respective player.

Method for generating multi-language menus

A method and device for dynamically overlaying two or more video streams uses specialized metadata that are attached to at least one of the video streams.

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Andrej Schewzow