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Philippe Gilberton

Eric Gautier

Ali Louzir

Anthony Laurent

Patrick Fontaine

Yvon Legallais

Philippe Minard

Guillaume Bichot

Jean-Luc Robert

Wen Gao

Jean-François Pintos

Jean-Yves Le Naour

Stephane Gouache

Christopher Howson

Jun Li

Paul Gothard Knutson

Vincent Demoulin

Christoph Neumann

Corinne Nicolas

Luis Montalvo

Bernard Denis

Niclas Stahl

Henk Heijnen

Pascal Nadeau

Rupesh Kumar

Christophe Delaunay

The disclosure relates to a method for recognizing at least one naturally emitted sound produced by a real-life sound source in an environment comprising at least one artificial sound source. The method is implemented by an audio recognition device, and it includes simultaneously obtaining a first audio signal from a first microphone located in the environment and a second audio signal from an audio acquisition device associated with the at least one artificial sound source; analyzing the first audio signal, delivering a first list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the first audio signal; analyzing the second audio signal, delivering a second list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the second audio signal; and delivering a third list of sound classes, comprising only sound classes included in the first list of sound classes which are not included in the second list of sound classes.

Method for recognizing at least one naturally emitted sound produced by a real-life sound source in an environment comprising at least one artificial sound source, corresponding apparatus, computer program product and computer-readable carrier medium

The present disclosure proposes a solution to associate a device with a user by capturing a voice of a speaker by a microphone connected to the network device (e.g. a residential or home gateway), monitoring the IP traffic of the network device and detecting the device contributing to this IP traffic in order to establish a link between the speaker and his device(s) and associate the device with the speaker.

Method for associating a device with a speaker in a gateway, corresponding computer program, computer and apparatus

The disclosure relates to a method for processing at least first and second audiovisual signals in a rendering system. Each of the first and second audiovisual signals include a video content and an audio content. The rendering system having a main display, an auxiliary display and a first audio output. The method includes: displaying the video content of the first audiovisual signal on the main display and the video content of the second audiovisual signal on the auxiliary display and playing the audio content of the first audiovisual signal on the first audio output, detecting an event in the audio content of the second audiovisual signal, and upon detection of the event, playing the audio content of the second audiovisual signal, instead of the audio content of the first audiovisual signal.

Method for processing a plurality of A/V signals in a rendering system and associated rendering apparatus and system

A device and method for monitoring a first device proximity to a second device is disclosed. The first device is for example a smartphone and the second device is for example a wearable device. Proximity between both devices is monitored in conjunction with an electronic calendar so as to trigger an alert in case proximity between both devices is going to be lost while an event of the calendar is imminent.

Device and method for monitoring proximity between two devices

A method of decoding an audio/video content transmitted over a broadband network. The method being based on the quick decoding of the first frames of a group of pictures without rendering them if the group of pictures arrives too late to be rendered synchronously with another audio/video content received through a broadcast network. The method allowing the synchronized rendering of contents respectively received over broadcast and broadband networks as soon as possible for the viewer.

Decoder and method at the decoder for synchronizing the rendering of contents received through different networks

A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader identifies in which room among several rooms the RFID reader is more likely to be located. The RFID reader includes a transmitter for transmitting an interrogating radio frequency (RF) signal. It includes a receiver for receiving RF signals generated in corresponding pairs of RFID tags. The RFID tag pairs are attached to corresponding regions of each of the rooms. Each of said RFID tag pair including a first RFID tag and a second RFID tag that are spaced from each other by a distance that is larger or equal to &#x3bb;/4 and smaller than or equal to &#x3bb;/2 with respect to a frequency of a responding RF signal originated in the pair of RFID tags. A processor selects a larger RSSI of the RSSI's of the signal pair. The processor determines a corresponding sum of the RSSI's selected from each signal pair associated with each room. The processor evaluates in accordance with determined sums, the location in which said RFID reader is more likely to be located.

System for identifying a location of a mobile tag reader

An electronic apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with a tag located within a target region when the communication unit is active within the target region, and a processor configured to monitor an activity within the target region based on status information from the tag received by the communication unit, wherein the activity comprises at least one of opening and closing of a member arranged within the target region.

Apparatus and method for activity monitoring

The invention discloses a method for reception of an audio-visual program transmitted via portions over a network, the method using a real-time transport protocol and a real-time control protocol between a server and a receiver, the audio-visual program being available on the server in a plurality of versions corresponding to the program coded in different resolutions and enabling its transmission at different bitrates according to requests of the receiver. The method comprising a regular measurement of the bandwidth of the network by the receiver in order to adjust the transmission bitrate according to the state of the network.

Method for dynamic adaptation of the reception bitrate and associated receiver

The invention relates to a storage device management method allowing to manage the storage space, on a storage device, by proposing to an end user to store a new content he was going to consume if its storage determined size is lower than an already stored content size.

Storage device management method and apparatus corresponding computer program product and non-transitory computer readable medium

The invention relates to a method for the synchronization of a set of 3D devices suitable for the processing of data representative of at least one stereoscopic image comprising a first image and a second image. In order to synchronize the 3D devices involved in the rendering of the at least one stereoscopic image, the method comprises the steps for: The invention also relates to a synchronization device.

Method for the synchronization of 3D devices and corresponding synchronization device

Method for providing a personalized content having a determined sequencing of media contents, comprising steps of:

Provision of a personalized media content

A device is intended to obtain content by means of at least two transport protocols having different requirements in terms of available network bandwidth. Such content is available in different versions on at least a content server and the versions correspond to different transmission binary bit rates and are subdivided into chunks adapted to be transmitted via a communication network. This device is arranged to request to said at least one server a transmission of at least one chunk according to a version of a content and according to a transport protocol, the transport protocol and the version being selectable in response to a current value of the available bandwidth of said communication network.

Device for obtaining content by choosing the transport protocol according to the available bandwidth

This method of detection of a mobile device location, comprises the steps of:

Detection of a mobile device location

The invention relates to a method for transmitting an information representative of a disparity setting of a stereoscopic image, the stereoscopic image comprising a first image and a second image representative of a same scene according to two different viewpoints. The method comprises a transmission step of said setting information at a given time, the transmission time being determined according to a time period associated with a transition time between the sequential display of the first and second images. The invention also relates to a disparity setting method according to the disparity information received as well as a device configured for the transmission of an information representative of a disparity setting.

Disparity setting method and corresponding device

The invention relates to a method of resending at least one digital signal, comprising a step of reception by cable of the signal comprising signaling information, a step of resending of this signal at a resend frequency by an antenna, and also comprising a step of selecting the resend frequency as a function of the signaling information; a step of transposing the signal into the selected frequency of the resend signal and a step of monitoring and adjusting the frequency of the resend signal as a function of the selected frequency of the resend signal.

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