Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Nicolas Santini

Benoit Mory

Franck Laffargue

An arrangement of a panoramic video is obtained by applying navigation commands to said panoramic video. The navigation commands are formed either by navigation commands given at will by the user, or by predefined navigation commands associated with said panoramic video. The choice of the type of navigation command used at a given instant is controlled either automatically or by the user. In this way, it is avoided that a user loses the thread of the action while permitting free navigation through a panoramic video.

Display of an arrangement of a panoramic video by applying navigation commands to said panoramic video

An arrangement of a panoramic video is obtained by applying navigation commands to said panoramic video. In accordance with the invention, the navigation commands are formed either by navigation commands given at will by the user, or by predefined navigation commands associated with said panoramic video. The choice of the type of navigation command used at a given instant is controlled either automatically or by the user. The invention thus permits to avoid a user losing the thread of the action when navigates freely through a panoramic video.

An encoding and a decoding method for transmitting and storing description element(s) of an XML-like document which is an instance of an XML-like schema.

Binary format for MPEG-7 instances

The invention relates to a method of searching a predetermined number of objects which are closest to an example, in a hierarchical object structure which is obtained by using a hierarchical object classification method. The proposed method consists of going through the hierarchical structure starting from the root, descending as far as the first node closest to the searched example of which a number of leaves lower than the number of lacking results depend, and then going back up to the brother node of this node which is closest to the searched example, so as to add other results and so on and so forth until said predetermined number is arrived at. Application: MPEG-7 descriptions.

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Nicolas Santini