Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Europa N.v.

Arnaud Closset

Laurent Frouin

Yacine El Kolli

Romain Guignard

Pierre Visa

Falk Tannhauser

Brice Le Houerou

Lionel Le Scolan

Sylvain Buriau

Emmanuel Raguet

Patrice Onno

Philippe Piret

Philippe Le Bars

Pascal Rousseau

Tristan Halna Du Fretay

Barry Michael Cook

Hervé Merlet

Christopher Paul Hulme Walker

Stéphane Bizet

Larurent Frouin

A method for synchronizing a logical clock in a device comprising a physical clock, an input port, and an output port, the device further comprising a logical clock and a time compensation clock sharing the physical clock, the time compensation clock making it possible to determine a residence time, comprising obtaining a theoretical residence time, during a pre-synchronization phase according to which the logical clock is not synchronized, adding a value representative of the obtained theoretical residence time to a residence time value stored in a synchronization message to be forwarded, during a synchronization phase according to which the logical clock is synchronized, obtaining a residence time and adding a value representative of the obtained residence time to a residence time value stored in a synchronization message to be forwarded, and synchronizing the logical clock as a function of a residence time value stored in a received synchronization message.

Method, device, and computer program for improving synchronization of clocks in devices linked according to a daisy-chain topology

A communication device comprising at least one communication port called reception port and another communication port called forward port, each communication port being associated with a respective clock, the communication device being further configured for computing an offset between the respective clocks associated with the reception and forward ports, and synchronizing the respective clocks based on the computed offset.

Communication device, cascaded network and internal synchronization method

An image processing device processes a first sub-image of an image split into sub-images. Each sub-image is displayable by a display device. The image processing device is associated with a first display device and connects to a source device through a first network and to another image processing device through a second network. The image processing device includes first and second receiving units and a generating unit. The first receiving unit receives the first sub-image from the source device via the first network. The second receiving unit receives, via a second network, at least one part of at least one second sub-image to be displayed by another display device, wherein the received at least one part is adjacent to the received first sub-image. The generating unit generates a first clustered sub-image to be displayed by the first display device, based on the received first sub-image and adjacent part.

Image processing methods, and image processing devices and system for a scalable multi-projection system

A data processing system comprising a plurality of data inputs and of data outputs for processing input data and providing processed data to a data output. The system comprises a plurality of data processing hardware units, each being configured to process data within a predetermined latency and according to a data processing task of a predetermined type. The system further comprises a memory for storing a predetermined latency for each of the data processing hardware units and a controller configured to determine a type of a data processing task to be executed as a function of a source of data to be processed or of a destination of processed data and further configured to select one data processing hardware unit as a function of the determined type of the task to be executed and of latency constraints associated with the task to be executed.

Configurable data processing system based on a hybrid data and control driven processing architecture

A method of controlling the data rate of a data transmission between an emitter and a receiver, wherein data rate adaptation control commands may be sent using a return path from the receiver to the emitter, which comprises monitoring at least one receiving condition at the receiver; determining at least one threshold on said receiving conditions to trigger data rate adaptation control commands; estimating the transmission time of the data rate adaptation control commands from the receiver to the emitter and adjusting the threshold on these receiving conditions to trigger data rate adaptation control commands based on said estimation of the transmission time from the receiver to the emitter. Accordingly, by continuously adjusting at least one said triggering threshold according to the variation of the transmission time of said data rate adaption commands, a more efficient data rate adaptation method is obtained minimizing the adaptation needs.

Method and apparatus for controlling the data rate of a data transmission between an emitter and a receiver

A method and device regenerating a pixel clock signal, the method comprising, and the device being configured for: determining a first drift value Drepresentative of a first time difference between a reference clock signal RC and a local clock signal LC based on a local pixel clock signal LPC; adjusting the local pixel clock signal LPC according to an adjustment command to provide a regenerated pixel clock signal RPC; determining a second drift value Drepresentative of a second time difference between the reference clock signal RC and a regenerated clock signal based on the regenerated pixel clock signal RPC; and providing the adjustment command to the adjustable clock generatorfor adjusting the local pixel clock signal LPC, wherein the adjustment command is based on the difference between the determined first and second drift values.

Method and apparatus for regenerating a pixel clock signal

A sending device receives applications data blocks to be transmitted to a receiving device according to a clock rate defined by transport periods, the applications data blocks being encoded before transmission by application of a first source encoding up to the processing of a change request. The sending device determines a drift between a number of applications data blocks received by the sending device and a number of applications data blocks transmitted after encoding by the sending device. The sending device determines, taking account of the determined drift, a transition applications data block from which a second source encoding is applied in response to the change request. The transmission of the stream is then adapted in such a way that the transmission of the encoded transition data block is aligned with a start of a transport period.

Method for managing a data transmission from a sender device, corresponding computer-readable storage medium and sender device

A method for sending compressed data representing at least part of a digital image includes the following steps: A corresponding device is also described.

Method for sending compressed data representing a digital image and corresponding device

It is proposed a method for synchronizing a transmission of applications data frames provided to a sender device, the transmission being done between said sender device and at least one receiver device via a synchronous communications network implementing a clock that defines a network cycle. Upon detection of an event representing a start of an applications data frame, the sender device performs steps of:

Method for synchronizing a transmission of applications data frames, corresponding sender and receiver devices and storage means

A method for transmitting information is proposed, enabling a synchronization of applicative clocks signals between a transmission device and at least one reception device connected to a communications network. For each stream of a source application, the transmission device: writes to a buffer memory associated with the stream, at the rate of a source applicative clock, pieces of applicative data of the stream coming from the source application, transmits, via the network, pieces of applicative data of the stream at the rate of the network clock. For at least one stream of the source application, the transmission device performs the following steps upon detection of a clock adjustment event: determining a piece of time offset information between a starting instant of a current network cycle and an instant of writing one of the pieces of applicative data of the stream, called a reference piece of data, to the buffer memory associated with the stream; determining a piece of information on position of the reference piece of data from among the pieces of applicative data of this stream to be transmitted via the network during a determined network cycle; transmission on the communications network of the information on time offset and position during the same network cycle as the one in which the reference piece of data is transmitted.

Methods for synchronizing applicative clock signals in a synchronous communications network, corresponding emitter and receiver devices, computer-readable storage means

A method of transmission of at least one data content by a source node associated with a generator application to at least one destination node, each associated with a consumer application, in a communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, each being associated with an application, the network implementing a first clocking which defines a first cycle, called a network cycle, for data transmission on said network. Each node of the network implements a second clocking which defines a second cycle, called a local cycle, for data transmission between the node of the network and its associated application, the network cycle being equal to an integer multiple P, P&#x2267;1, of the local cycle, the start of the network cycle coinciding with the start of a local cycle, the local cycle comprising a plurality of virtual channels corresponding to time slots, a set of the virtual channels being assigned to the transmission of the content or contents.

Methods of transmitting and receiving data content in a communications network, and corresponding computer-readable storage media and devices

A transmit mode performs indirect synchronization with a master node for accessing a medium, in a synchronous communications network comprising a plurality of slave nodes capable of accessing the medium during access time slots. The indirect synchronization includes receiving at least one frame coming from at least one of the slave nodes of the network. From each frame received, synchronization information pertaining to a level of synchronization of the slave node having sent the frame is obtained, the level of synchronization of the slave node being relative to the master node. A reference node is selected from among the at least one of the slave nodes from which at least one frame has been received, as a function of the pieces of synchronization information, the transmit node being indirectly synchronized with the master node via the reference node.

Method for accessing a medium in a synchronous communications network by a transmit node, computer program product, storage means and transmit node

A method of transmitting data in a synchronous communications network, which includes multiple nodes, includes communicating a super frame that includes multiple frames, based on a network cycle, each frame being associated with one of the nodes. Each frame includes a payload that includes an own data section and a repeat data section. The nodes include at least one relay node associated with an application generating own data of the relay node to be transmitted to at least one second node. The relay node receives frames from other of the nodes, reads a predetermined part of data from the received frames, which enables repeat data to be obtained, writes the repeat data in the repeat data section of a new frame, writes the own data of the relay node in the own data section of the new frame, and transmits the new frame.

Synchronous data transmissions by relay node

A method for managing bandwidth in a synchronous communications network including a plurality of nodes, the network implementing a first clocking which defines a data-processing cycle including a determined number of virtual channels, the data-processing cycle being defined by a current data-processing frequency, the plurality of nodes including at least one transmitter node associated with at least one generator application, each generator application being associated with at least one virtual channel for transmitting its data, the virtual channel or channels associated with a given generator application being filled one by one from the first to a last virtual channel. Such a method includes the following steps performed for a given generator application: determining a rate of use of the last virtual channel of the set of virtual channels; adjusting the current data-processing frequency; and allocating an integer number of virtual channels.

Method for the management of bandwidth in a communications network, corresponding computer-readable storage medium and devices

A method for the allocation of resources for the transmission, in a communications network, of a data stream from an intermediate device to a sink device, said data stream comprising a plurality of data applications packets and being transmitted from a source device to the intermediate device in the form of data transport packets according to a communications protocol. The intermediate device performs the following steps: 

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