Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, Sas

Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings, Sas

Thomson Licensing

Sebastien Fraleu

Goulven Querre

Thomas Morin

Sebastien Bergot

Thierry Quere

Andre Magras

Karine Jegou

The disclosure relates to retractable display device () including a housing () having an internal space () defined therein, a rolling axle () positioned in the housing (), an electronic display and a support structure () attached to a rear surface of the electronic display. The support structure () includes a plurality of juxtaposed support elements () capable of being rolled around the axle () with the electronic display in a storage position and of being unrolled upward, at least partially out of the housing (), to provide a substantially planar front surface on which visual information may be displayed.

Retractable display device

A first interface of a device receives content from a further device, at least one hardware processor analyses the content to find active elements that will be visible on a screen when displayed, generates a page by overlaying a first part of the content that will be visible on the screen when displayed with graphic elements respectively corresponding to found active elements, sends the page to a third interface for display on the screen and activates a corresponding active element upon reception, via a second interface from a user input device, of a command comprising an identifier displayed in a graphic element. In case the identifier corresponds to a graphic element associated with a group comprising a plurality of active elements, graphic elements corresponding to each active element in the group are overlaid over the first image.

Device and method for navigation through active elements in a displayed page

A display device () obtains (S) an image, obtains (S) a current measure of inclination of a screen () of the display device (), rotates (S) the image to compensate for the inclination to render the image parallel with the horizon, scales (S) and displays (S) the image entire and horizontally on the screen. The image can be part of a video for which other images are processed to be displayed horizontally. The image can be scaled to maximise the size of the image when displayed on the screen (); this can be performed after a period of unchanged inclination.

Device and method for image display

An electronic program guide, EPG, comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprises a list of channels and, for each channel in the list, a list of scheduled audiovisual content. The second portion comprises a selection area or section and a first graphical element representing a time line. The selection section may be used to select scheduled audiovisual content according to a selection criterion. Second graphical elements that represent scheduled audio visual content resulting from the selection are then placed on the first graphical element. The relative position of the second graphical elements on the first graphical element is determined by chronological order.

Electronic program guide, method for an electronic program guide, and corresponding device

An object of the invention is to avoid or at least limit the aforementioned drawback by a specific processing of video images to display, notably on large size screens. For this purpose, a method for processing at least one image of a video sequence is described. The method includes defining at least two peripheral areas P, Pin the at least one image, and reducing contrast of pixels in the defined peripheral area(s) having a local contrast Rand/or Rabove a local contrast threshold Ror reducing contrast of pixels in subregionsi, . . . , N of these defined peripheral areas having a local contrast R, R'above a local contrast threshold R.

Image processing method based on peripheral reduction of contrast

A digital decoder for television receiver, comprises an input (E) for receiving a digital audio/video signal (SAV), means for demodulating and decoding the input signal into an output signal intended for the television receiver, and a first buffer memory () into which the input signal is diverted after demodulation (SD) when the decoder is placed in a so-called 'live' mode of operation. In a so-called 'playback' mode of operation, the signal recorded in the first buffer memory constitutes the output signal. This decoder comprises a second buffer memory () into which the demodulated input signal (SD) is diverted when the decoder is placed in the &#x201c;playback&#x201d; mode, the signal recorded in the second buffer memory () constituting the output signal when the decoder is switched from the &#x201c;playback&#x201d; mode to another so-called &#x201c;return to live&#x201d; mode of operation. In the &#x201c;return to live&#x201d; mode, the user views at high speed the video portion recorded in the second buffer memory before the decoder switches back to the &#x201c;live&#x201d; mode.

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