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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2003
Charles Chuanming Wang, Jamison, PA (US);
Andreas Matthais Aust, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sachin Satish Mody, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Charles Chuanming Wang, Jamison, PA (US);
Andreas Matthais Aust, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sachin Satish Mody, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for reducing the audio-visual synchronization problems (e.g.—'lip sync' problems) in corresponding audio and video streams by adapting a statistical distribution of temporal errors to create a new statistical distribution of temporal errors. The new statistical distribution of temporal errors being substantially within an acceptable synchronization tolerance window which is less offensive to a viewer/listener.