Patents Assigned to Thomson Licensing
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Patent number: 12197952Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus including setting a memory swap size limit, the limit being lower than a memory swap size defining a maximum size of a part of said memory resources used for swap, obtaining a score for at least one running program, a high score corresponding to a low priority level, obtaining monitoring information representative of a monitored activity of the program during a time period and of a learnt user's habit of use of the program, including a number of times the program gained the focus within the time period. The disclosure also includes deriving a score delta from information with a decrement value to the score delta at each focus gained by the program, adjusting the score by adding the delta, and terminating execution when memory swap size limit is reached and the adjusted score reaches a memory swap size limit threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Bruno Le Garjan, Sebastien Crunchant, Thierry Quere
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Patent number: 12147822Abstract: An intelligent notification system/virtual companion system provides an intelligent notification to a client device associated with a user so as to improve the quality of service to a user. Rather than send a user monotonous or routine reminders that do not reflect current or timely information, the intelligent notification/interaction is based on user data associated with the user. By aggregating user data associated with a schedule of the user, the intelligent notification/interaction system can generate an intelligent notification that provides information to the user that is useful and pertinent. For example, a user may have already completed a regularly schedule and as such no reminder is necessary. The intelligent notification/interaction can, in lieu of a reminder, send the user a encouraging or informative intelligent reminder. In this way, a user is not inundated with stale reminders but rather receives accurate, relevant and information intelligent notifications and interactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Gregory N. Nakanishi, Gonzaga Chow
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Patent number: 12136775Abstract: An antenna structure is described that includes a flexible substrate and at least two antenna elements being formed from conductive traces on a layer of the flexible substrate. The antenna structure also includes a plurality of conductive traces formed on the layer of the flexible substrate with a first subset being electrically coupled as a lead in to a first one of the antenna elements and a second subset of the plurality of conductive traces being electrically coupled as a lead in to a second one of the antenna elements, wherein the first subset and the second subset are separately coupled electrically to one connector after insertion of an edge of the flexible substrate into the connector. An apparatus is described that includes a case, an electronic assembly, including a printed circuit board and a support bracket, contained within the case. The apparatus further includes the antenna assembly as described herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Aaron Bouillet, Joseph Carpenter, Gerald Colman
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Patent number: 12108111Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring usage of at least one application executed within an operating system of an electronic device. The method includes at least one iteration of, while a processing condition is not satisfied, determining a video event associated with a current application and storing the video event in a data structure, delivering a set of video events. The method further includes, once the processing condition is satisfied, determining a past time slot, calling an usage statistics API provided on the operating system, delivering a set of application events representative of whether an application has been put in system foreground or system background, retrieving application events that have occurred during the past time slot, retrieving video events that have occurred during the past time slot, chronologically ordering the retrieved application and video events, and delivering a consolidated set of ordered events.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Laurent Dauvin
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Patent number: 11930332Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for recognizing at least one naturally emitted sound produced by a real-life sound source in an environment comprising at least one artificial sound source. The method is implemented by an audio recognition device, and it includes simultaneously obtaining a first audio signal from a first microphone located in the environment and a second audio signal from an audio acquisition device associated with the at least one artificial sound source; analyzing the first audio signal, delivering a first list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the first audio signal; analyzing the second audio signal, delivering a second list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the second audio signal; and delivering a third list of sound classes, comprising only sound classes included in the first list of sound classes which are not included in the second list of sound classes.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Henk Heijnen, Philippe Gilberton, Eric Gautier
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Patent number: 11848738Abstract: A method and apparatus for diversity antenna selection and include receiving a first portion of a signal using a first antenna during a first time period and using a second antenna during a second time period, determining a first difference value for the first portion received by the first antenna, the first value being a difference between a signal level for the first portion received by the first antenna and a threshold signal level associated with the first antenna, and determining a second difference value for the first portion received by the second antenna, the second value being a difference between a signal level for the first portion received by the second antenna and a threshold signal level associated with the second antenna. The method and apparatus include receiving a second portion of the signal using the first antenna if the first difference value is greater than the second difference value.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Deshuang Man
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Patent number: 11844191Abstract: An apparatus and heat management mechanism are described. The apparatus includes an outer casing enclosing at least one heat generating electronic structure, such as a plurality of electronic components included on at least printed circuit board, the outer casing having an inner surface and an outer surface. The apparatus and the heat management mechanism further include a heat dissipation structure thermally coupled to the heat generating structure or printed circuit board, the heat dissipation structure forming an open-ended columnar channel, the open-ended columnar channel allowing air to flow within the heat dissipation structure in a direction parallel to a surface of the heat generating structure or printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Darin Ritter
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Patent number: 11627374Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring usage of at least one application executed within an operating system of an electronic device. The method includes at least one iteration of, while a processing condition is not satisfied, determining a video event associated with a current application and storing the video event in a data structure, delivering a set of video events. The method further includes, once the processing condition is satisfied, determining a past time slot, calling an usage statistics API provided on the operating system, delivering a set of application events representative of whether an application has been put in system foreground or system background, retrieving application events that have occurred during the past time slot, retrieving video events that have occurred during the past time slot, and chronologically ordering the retrieved application and video events, delivering a consolidated set of ordered events.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Laurent Dauvin
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Patent number: 11598969Abstract: A method of bonding layers of dielectric materials includes providing a surface one of the layers with microscale- and/or nanoscale-size bonding elements forming contact points of the layers and bringing a layer of the layers into a mutual position according to an intended use. The method also includes illuminating the layer whose surface is provided with bonding elements by an incident electromagnetic wave, the propagation direction of which is substantially orthogonal to the one of the layers, and whose wavelength is selected depending on an absorption spectrum of a material forming the one of the layers and generating condensed optical beams within said bonding elements or close to a tip of said bonding elements intended to be in contact with the other layer. The method further includes heating and melting the bonding elements by high-intensity focal spots formed by said generated optical beams and maintaining the layers into a mutual position until and bonding of the layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Artem Boriskin, Ray Keating, Justin Cunningham
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Patent number: 11288881Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for providing assistance to a colorist in color grading of a virtual reality video content, called VR content. The method includes receiving the VR content being graded by a color grading station and receiving position information representative of the position of at least one hand of a colorist versus the color grading station. The method further includes generating, based on the position information, visual control information showing the position of the at least one hand of the colorist versus at least one grading control element of the color grading station and displaying the visual control information together with the graded VR content on a head mounted display carried by the colorist in order to help the colorist manipulating the at least one grading control element.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Sylvain Thiebaud, Tania Pouli
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Patent number: 11271316Abstract: The invention relates to a wide-band omnidirectional antenna including at least a first conducting member and a second conducting member having a revolution symmetry about a common revolution axis and central openings, said members being arranged opposite each other, at least one member having a progressively flaring area, characterised in that it comprises a gap between the conducting members and a central coaxial excitation line so as to achieve a three-dimensional contactless transition between the coaxial excitation line and the conducting members and members for modifying the radiation pattern in the flaring area of the diode type for selectively radiating the gap depending on the on- or off-state of said diodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Julian Thevenard, Dominique Lo Hine Tong, Ali Louzir, Corinne Nicolas, Christian Person, Jean-Philippe Coupez
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Patent number: 11145984Abstract: A folded metal dipole antenna includes a balun having two sides, the sides having metal contact end portions for electrical connection to a printed circuit board, two radiating elements, each radiating element in coplanar relationship to a corresponding side of the balun, and an antenna support member having a spacer portion placed between the two sides of the balun. The spacer portion is used to separate one radiating element of the dipole antenna from another radiating element of the dipole antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: William T. Murphy
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Patent number: 11146466Abstract: In today's network management world, there are various solutions that collect data and presume to identify events impacting the QoE of the end-users. However, such solutions usually do not try to address the question of whether the end-users are actually impacted. These solutions usually look at certain types of known problems and try to detect if that problem exists in the end-user's network, and from that they conclude that the end-user might be impacted. The method according to an embodiment of the invention enables to proactively identify that an end-user is actually experiencing an event impacting the QoE in his home network. The proposed solution enables the detection of event affecting an end-user's network, regardless of the type of the network and without looking for specific issues. This knowledge may be a valuable asset of an Internet Service Provider which may fix issues quicker or mitigate end-users' dissatisfaction.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Assi Abramovitz
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Patent number: 11127376Abstract: A method for rendering a current image on a head-mounted display is provided. The current image has been acquired by a camera mounted on a moving object. First, the capturing roll angle is obtained. It is compared to the viewing roll angle that is the current roll angle of the head of a user of the head-mounted display. If the difference between the capturing roll angle and the current viewing roll angle is lower than a determined threshold, a detection flag is activated. The current image is then rotated by an angle determined according to the capturing roll angle, the current viewing roll angle and of the detection flag. The current rotated image is rendered.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Olivier Dumas, Bertrand Leroy, Fabien Danieau
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Patent number: 10713760Abstract: A virtual reality apparatus includes a virtual reality display screen. Further, the virtual reality apparatus includes an eye tracking system that tracks a gaze direction of one or more eyes of a user to determine an object of focus in a virtual reality display. In addition, the virtual reality apparatus includes a processor. The virtual reality apparatus also includes a memory having a set of instructions that when executed by the processor causes the virtual reality apparatus to estimate one or more pupil dimensions of the one or more eyes based upon a luminance of virtual reality imagery displayed by the virtual reality display. The virtual reality apparatus is further caused to determine a focal plane based upon the estimated one or more pupil dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Joshua Pines, Peter Lopez, Kiran Varanasi
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Patent number: 10657724Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a main lighting direction from the input image, which corresponds to a key light. The system is operative to nm on data-parallel architectures allows for incoming light direction estimation in real-time. More particularly, the method and apparatus detect a key, or principal light direction relative to the position/orientation of an acquisition device. It method involves image analysis to find a maximum intensity value, maximal values filtering, and conversion of the input image position to a direction in space.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: THOMSON LicensingInventors: Gael Sourimant, Eric Hubert, Jean-Eudes Marvie
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Patent number: 10514832Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards having a user interface that displays a number of cards or windows. A user can implement a command where the user interface will automatically change the position of the displayed cards to show regions of interest which are the parts of the cards that a user may have interested in. The user interest can be determined in accordance with user preference information. Optionally, cards which do not have regions of interest are removed from a display area and such cards are replaced with new cards that do have regions of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Kenneth Rudman, Vasil Nadzakov, Andrew Yoon, Roger Yeh, Basil Badawiyeh, Genevieve Marie Pinvidic, Dana Forte, Dan Han Diep, Samir Ahmed, Lee Shartzer, John Frederick Bishop, James Booth, Hao Chi Tran, Peter Lee, Gregory Gudorf, Douglas Jason Pickersgill, Mark Walker, David Pettigrew
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Patent number: 10452136Abstract: This invention aims to support the reader in the task of reading text on a display device (21). In each case an area in the text to which the gaze is directed (view areas/focus area of the eyes) is highlighted, respectively. For this purpose the gaze direction is determined (101 to 108) in the reading device (21) and the highlighted region is controlled with gaze direction control (109). When a whole sentence is highlighted, the highlighting is stopped and starts anew with the beginning of the next sentence being read. The highlighted area moves with this technique with the view. The reader's eye/brain is thus released from the complicated task of line tracking and can better concentrate on word recognition.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Volker Schaeferjohann
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Patent number: 10425277Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for logging diagnostic information are disclosed. In accordance with one method, first diagnostic information is logged in a router in accordance with a first mode having a first logging rate. In addition, an operational problem within the router is detected. Further, in response to detecting the operational problem, second diagnostic information is logged in accordance with a second mode having a second logging rate that is greater than the first logging rate of the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Gregory William Cook
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Patent number: 10412439Abstract: A system that maps media content information to an interactive program guide displayed on a screen includes, among other things, a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to display at least one personal video recording display channel in the interactive program guide. The processor is further preferably configured with the logic to display media content instance listings in the personal video recording display channel for corresponding media content instance recordings.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Samuel H. Russ, Michael A. Gaul, Dariusz S. Kaminski