Thomson Licensing

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Deutsche Thomson-brandt Gmbh

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Thomas Licensing

Max Streicher Gmbh & Co. Kg Aa

Marco Winter

Ralf Ostermann

Uwe Janssen

Hartmut Peters

Dirk Gandolph

Andrej Schewzow

Jobst Hoerentrup

Carsten Herpel

Harald Schiller

Dirk Adolph

Wolfgang Klausberger

Stefan Kubsch

Meinolf Blawat

Hui Li

Axel Kochale

Jobst Hörentrup

Dietmar Hepper

Heinz-Werner Keesen

Michael Drexler

Seong-jin Moon

Sung-Wook Park

Johannes Boehm

Hans-Joachim Platte

Jens Spille

Ingo Hütter

Wulf-Christian Streckenbach

Kai Dorau

Tobias Stadler

Young-Nam Oh

Johannes Böhm

Andreas Beck

Ernst F Schroeder

Rupert Köckeis

Rupert Koeckeis

Georg Streicher

Hans-Peter Murr

Werner Gluck

Markus Heckendorf

Uwe Jannsen

Werner Glueck

Werner GLÜCK

Jobst HÖRENTRUP

Hartmunt Peters

Li Hui

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 an apparatus for applying film grain to stereoscopic or multi-view images or sequences of stereoscopic or multi-view images are described. After retrieving an image pair or a set of multi-view images a depth map for the image pair or the set of multi-view images and a confidence map for the depth map are obtained. Film grain is then applied to non-occluded areas of the images in accordance with depth values of the depth map and confidence values of the confidence map. Occluded areas of the images are processed separately by first deriving depth values for these areas and then applying film grain to these areas in accordance with the derived depth values.

Film grain for stereoscopic or multi-view images

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.

Method and device for handling multiple video streams using metadata

A Flash based memory comprising a Flash translation layer which comprises first translation information associating a first logical address of a logical file system emulating a sectored storage medium, the logical address being a logical sector start address with a first physical address of said flash based memory. The logical file system comprises a number of logical stuffing bits expanding a logical size of data of a file stored in said Flash based memory such that the expanded logical size corresponds to an integer number of logical sectors and the Flash translation layer comprises second translation information associating a second logical address with a second physical address and depending on said number of logical stuffing bits, the file being stored in a contiguous physical address sequence starting at the first physical address and ending at the second physical address.

Flash based memory comprising a Flash translation layer and method for storing a file therein

A device and a method for handling rod-shaped elements on drilling gear are disclosed. The device for handling rod-shaped elements on drilling gear includes a drill rod magazine on which the rod components are deposited between a center of a drill hole and a center of a drilling mast, an elevator with a guide that lifts the drill rods above a drill hole, and a drive for displacing the elevator, a gripper attached to the elevator for picking up the rod component from the drill rod magazine, and a plurality of monitors. The plurality of monitors automatically monitor the movement of the rod-shaped components amongst the magazine, the elevator, and the gripper.

Apparatus and method of handling rod-shaped components

Available storage media capacity for personal video recording increases continuously. metadata can be used to organize the recordings, search for content and access specific recordings. If metadata are embedded within the multimedia content itself, like DVB specific Service Information, which are multiplexed with the audio and video streams to form a MPEG-2 transport stream, a search based on this metadata would require an inefficient and time consuming search through all multimedia content stored. According to the invention metadata information is gathered, analyzed and processed to form metadata entities, which are amended by a reference to the content itself. A descriptor stream is formed from the resulting pairs of metadata entities and references to the content and is stored separately from the files comprising multimedia content. In this way, for data of an MPEG-2 transport stream the metadata can be accessed without a need to reparse the entire stream.

Method and apparatus for simplifying the access of metadata

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 sensor chip.

Camera with volumetric sensor chip

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Hannover, Germany

Marco Winter