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Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings, Sas

Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, Sas

Thomson Licensing Dtv

Vincent Alleaume

Pierrick Jouet

Anthony Laurent

Caroline Baillard

Guillaume Bichot

Pascal Bourdon

Matthieu Fradet

Philippe Robert

Helmut Burklin

Maximilien Bellot

Francois Le Clerc

Christopher Howson

Ali Boudani

Jouet Pierrick

Tao Luo

A camera captures part of a surrounding scene to obtain a user view, disambiguating information uniquely identifying at least one controllable device or group of controllable devices in a set of controllable devices of a given type or at least one location or direction for a mobile controllable device is obtained, the user view and the disambiguating information relating to at least one controllable device overlaid on the user view are displayed on a display, a command intended to control at least one controllable device is received, wherein a command including at least part of the disambiguating information and a message based on the command is sent towards a corresponding controllable device.

Augmented Reality method and system enabling commands to control real-world devices

A first communication device, e.g., having a camera, is pointed, by a first person, in direction of a second person with which the first person wants to communicate in an interactive session, using his communication device. The camera captures the face of the second person. If the second person does not have a device enabling interaction with the first device, a third person in proximity of the second person, having a device enabling interaction, is selected, and a request is transmitted to the second device in the hands of the third person to handover his device to the second person, displaying, for example, the face of the second person. When handover is detected, the second person may be identified by the device being handed over. The interaction between the first and the second device may be established.

Method and apparatus for establishing a communication between a first and a second communication device

A method, apparatus and system for facilitating navigation toward a region of interest in an extended scene of video content include determining a timeline including information regarding at least one region of interest in the video content and displaying, in a portion of the video content currently being displayed, a visual indicator indicating a direction in which to move in the video content to cause the display of the at least one region of interest. In one embodiment of the present principles a timeline is attached to the content and carries information evolving over time about the region(s) of interest. A renderer processes the timeline and provides navigation information to a user using available means such as a graphical representation or haptic information, or a combination of several means.

Method, apparatus and system for facilitating navigation in an extended scene

Localization of a user device in a mixed reality environment in which the user device obtains at least one keyframe from a server, which can reside on the user device, displays at least one of the keyframes on a screen, captures by a camera an image of the environment, and obtains a localization result based on at least one feature of at least one keyframe and the image.

Device and method for device localization

A method for rendering a non-photorealistic (NPR) content from a set (SI) of at least one image of a same scene is provided. The set of images (SI) is associated with a depth image comprising a set of regions. Each region corresponds to a region of a given depth. The method for rendering a non-photorealistic content includes generation of a segmented image having at least one segmented region generated with a given segmentation scale. The at least one segmented region corresponds to at least one region of the set of regions. A binary edge image is generated in which at least one binary edge region is generated with a given edge extraction scale, the at least one binary edge region corresponding to at least one region of the set of regions. The non-photorealistic content is rendered by combining the segmented image and the binary edge image.

Adaptive depth-guided non-photorealistic rendering method and device

A method of selection of an object in an environment including a plurality of real and/or virtual objects is described. The environment being displayed to a user through a display device includes an assignment of a gesture path to each object of the plurality of objects and the gesture path includes a series of gestures to be performed by the user to select the object.

Selection of an object in an augmented or virtual reality environment

An augmented reality (AR) interactive system and method is provided. In one embodiment the systems comprises a head mounted user interface configured to receive user input, a processor configured to manage data based on user input, a camera and a display. The camera and the display are in processing communication with one another and the head mounted user interface via the processor. The processor is configured to determine a user's field of view and a center of the user's field of view based on output of a sensor and rendering images for output to the display. Each of the images include one or more objects and a plurality of signs each corresponding to a selectable object in the user's field of view. The rendering of images include altering a first display attribute of a given sign of the plurality of displayed signs based on determining that the user's field of view is centered on the given sign. The processor is also configured to select the given sign based on determining that the user's field of view remains centered on the given sign for an amount of time exceeding a threshold.

Assisted item selection for see through glasses

An apparatus and a method for controlling the same by a user are suggested. The suggested apparatus comprises: a detecting unit for detecting a first event executed by a user in relation to a plurality of devices including the apparatus; a control unit for generating a second event according to the first event detected by the detecting unit; an output unit for presenting the second event to the user, wherein the control unit generates a command for executing the first event on the apparatus as a function of a response of the user to the second event detected by the detecting unit. The suggested apparatus and method are suitable to provide a second event, before executing a command corresponding to a first event from the user, for the user to confirm the intention of the first event.

Apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus by a user

The present disclosure relates to a new method to make a 3D acquisition of the video scene and to replace an object of the video scene by a substitute object corresponding to the product having substantially common 3D features than the object to be replaced and acceptable criteria values. It permits to minimize the appearance of hidden surfaces or occlusions.

Method for processing a video scene and corresponding device

The invention relates to a method for selection of a first object in a first virtual environment, the first object being represented in the first environment with a size of value less than a threshold value. According to an exemplary embodiment, in order to make the selection of the first object more convivial, the method includes steps for: estimating a direction associated with a pointing gesture of a user, determining a second object according to the estimated direction, the second object having a size of value greater than the threshold value, and selecting of the first object according to the second determined object. The invention also relates to a multimedia terminal adapted for the implementation of the method for selection.

Method for selection of an object in a virtual environment

The present invention concerns a receiver terminal and method at the receiver for requesting a missing symbol from a repair service, the method comprising the steps of receiving from a first server a list of at least one repair server and at least one transmission mode used by the at least one repair server, receiving from a second server a file comprising a plurality of symbols, checking the correct reception of the symbols, and if a missing has been identified, selecting a repair server and a transmissions mode and requesting the repair server to transmit missing symbols using the transmission mode.

Method for requesting a file repair distribution mode

The present invention relates to the domain of control devices for virtual games, and more specifically to a control device to control the displacement of a virtual player and of a virtual ball in the scope of a football video game. According to the invention, the control device is in the form of a ball connected to a pedestal. This ball is equipped with accelerometers able to detect a displacement force on the ball as a result of a strike exerted on said ball, pressure sensors able to detect a pressure force exerted on the surface of the ball and a processing module. The processor module generates using information from the accelerometers and pressure sensors control signals to control the displacement of the virtual ball in the video game and control signals to control the displacement of the virtual player in the video game.

Device to control the movement of a virtual player and a virtual ball in a game application

The invention relates to a method for processing video images comprising the steps for acquiring a plurality of video images during a time interval comprising a reference time t; associating a weighting factor with each of the video images, at least two of the video images having different weighting factors; memorising the video images; weighting each of the video images memorised with the associated weighting factor; generating an image called the reference image associated with the reference time t by averaging weighted video images. According to the invention, each video image is memorised with a resolution proportional to the weighting factor associated with said video image in order to reduce the memory space necessary for the storage of images and reduce the access time to the memorised images.

Method and device for generating images comprising motion blur

The present invention concerns a method at a file server for sending more than one file to more than one receiver, comprising the steps of aggregating the files into a container, splitting the container into more than one packet, and transmitting the more than one packet to the more than one receiver, wherein, the reception of at least one packet of the container enables a receiver to request the reception of lost packets of the container. To this end, the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication of the number of consecutive lost packets of the container per the more than one receiver and adapting the size of the container, in function of the number of consecutive lost packets at the receivers.

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