Thomson Licensing

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Pierre Houeix

Philippe Letellier

Valérie Crocitti

Eric Diehl

Mary-Luc Champel

Ralf Schaefer

Louis Chevallier

Christophe Diot

Christoph Neumann

Augustin Chaintreau

Nicolas Burdin

Willem Lubbers

Michel Cosmao

Jean-Francois Fleury

Caroline Landry

Augustin Soule

Ali Boudani

Kyoungwon Suh

Aline Caranicolas

The present invention relates to a method for receiving audiovisual programs sent by a server to at least two reception devices. Initially, a first user requests a document from the server that establishes a unicast stream to download said document. Then, a second user requests to receive the same document, even truncated by a part. The server studies the proposal and possibly, for a lower price, agrees to the download. The server then switches the broadcast of the document from a unicast stream to a multicast stream, the first and second devices receiving said document via the same multicast stream. The invention also relates to a device for receiving audiovisual content and a server for implementing the method.

Reception of audio-visual content addressed to several devices

In a method and an apparatus for navigating through subtitles of an Audio Video data stream an address information of one or more played back data units is stored together with the subtitle information of said played back data units during play back of said data units. One or more of said stored subtitle information can be displayed. Following the selection of one of said displayed subtitle information the stored address information of the data unit corresponding to the selected subtitle information is retrieved and the corresponding data unit is accessed using said retrieved address information. Playing back the accessed data unit conveniently allows to watch and listen to a scene including subtitles again, e.g. by a few clicks on the remote control.

Method and apparatus for navigating through subtitles of an audio video data stream

An information processing system or a digital decoder () makes it possible to process data originating from at least one application (), for example, by way of a bouquet of television programs, and comprises an operating system (), a virtual machine () and an application manager () executing one or more variable management instruction sets () so as to influence the operating system () and the virtual machine () during the execution of the application.

Applications manager with variable management instruction set

The present invention relates to a method of adjusting the sound levels originating from several audio sources, within a television receiver. The audio components originating from at least two audiovisual or audio sources are received in an audiovisual receiver and mixed so as to generate a single audio signal. The levels assigned to each source can be adjusted by the user with the aid of an icon displayed on a screen. The icon comprises at least two points representing the two sources and a cursor which moves along two dimensions, the distance between this cursor and the point representing a source being proportional to the sound level assigned to this source. The present invention also relates to the audiovisual terminal for the implementation of the method.

Method for sound adjustment of a plurality of audio sources and adjusting device

The present invention relates to a method for the distribution of multimedia content, comprising:

Multimedia content delivery method and system

A broadcast network sends audiovisual transmissions to a plurality of receivers. The transmissions contain also short audiovisual transmissions, typically advertising spots and information for triggering the displaying of an advertisement page. The receivers are furnished with a large recording capacity that allows the recording of several short audiovisual transmissions. At a time defined by the information transmitted in the audiovisual transmissions, the short audiovisual transmissions are, upon reception in the receiver, automatically replaced by transmissions of the same type previously recorded in the receiver. The receiver resumes normal displaying of the transmissions at the end of the broadcasting of the audiovisual transmissions of a certain type. According to an improvement, the recording of the transmissions can be performed according to the preferences of the user. The preferences of the user are defined during a configuration phase.

Process for displaying broadcast and recorded transmissions possessing a common characteristic and associated receiver

The present invention relates to a process and device for representation on a digital television screen. The process for the representation on a digital television screen of a display comprising the representation of a video signal, the representation of applications and the representation of the navigator is characterized in that it comprises

Process and device for representations of application on a digital television screen

Television receiver furnished with a memory () for receiving service data comprising a processing module () which correlates usage criteria received together with the service data and storage criteria characterizing the memory or memories of the receiver. By correlating the two criteria, the module determines the conditions of storage. Advantageously, a reorganizing module () can process the content of the memory so as to free some space in order to store new service data. The invention also relates to the storage process.

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Cesson-Sévigné, France

Pierre Houeix