Telecom Italia S.p.a.

Università Degli Studi Di Brescia

Riccardo Leonardi

Nicola Adami

Gianluca Francini

Sergio Benini

Michele Brescianini

Alberto Signoroni

A method for generating a time scheduling of a contents stream distributed to plural terminals. The contents stream is segmented in consecutive segments, each segment defining a corresponding program. The method includes: receiving auxiliary metadata including a planned time scheduling of the content stream which has been set in advance and monitoring at least a portion of a segment of the contents stream to extract corresponding content features therefrom, generating a corresponding fingerprint based on the extracted content features and assessing at least one among an actual start time and an actual end time of such segment based on a comparison between the fingerprint and a reference fingerprint associated with such segment, and updating the planned time scheduling based on the assessed at least one among the actual start time and actual end time to generate a time scheduling synchronized with the contents stream.

Method and system for syncronizing electronic program guides

A method of scalable video coding in which the video signal is processed and coded at various layers of spatial resolution where between each pair of spatial layers a prediction mechanism is enabled which allows a comparison at homologous layers of spatial resolution with the aim to obtain a good efficiency.

Scalable video coding method

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Brescia, Italy

Riccardo Leonardi