Alcatel Lucent

Wsou Investments, LLC

Ale International

Christophe Wolff

Lawrence P O'Gorman

Patrick Mourot

A powered communication device () comprises: a configurable resistor unit () coupled to the LAN port and adapted to generate a classification signal designating a power class of the powered communication device to be detected by the LAN switch, and a power module comprising a power converter () adapted to supply power to the electronic control unit () and to the peripherals in response to receiving power from the LAN port, wherein the electronic control unit () is configured to determine a power requirement of the communication device, detect a current resistance state of the configurable resistor unit () and, in response to detecting that the power requirement overshoots a power class associated to the current resistance state of the configurable resistor unit: reconfigure the configurable resistor unit () to designate a higher power class and, actuate the power switch () to transitorily put the LAN port () in a low-current state to be detected by the LAN switch.

Powered communication device

A method for slowing a digital audio signal from the transmitter in order to transmit a slowed-down digital audio signal to a receiver, comprises the conversion of the digital audio signal received from a transmitter into a text made up of a series of words, assigning a timestamp bookmark to each word of the text, identifying words that belong to patterns referenced in a database of patterns to be eliminated, the definition of a rate of slowing, the adaptation of timestamped bookmarks to a slowed-down time frame based on the time of slowing, the slowing of the digital audio signal, the deletion of patterns to be eliminated, and the transmission to the receiver of a slowed-down digital audio signal.

Method and device for slowing a digital audio signal

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing picture privacy in video. The method includes separating, by the processor, pixels of a first type from pixels of a second type in a current gray-scale frame based on a decision threshold, where each of the pixels of the first and second types includes an image pixel value, and applying, by the processor, a privacy filter to the pixels of the first type. The privacy filter is configured to randomly swap the image pixel values within a pixel area to occur at different locations in the pixel area. The method further includes combining, by the processor, the filter pixels of the first type with the pixels of the second type.

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Benfeld, France

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