Patents by Inventor Cedric Penet

Cedric Penet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for processing an audiovisual content and corresponding device
    Patent number: 9456255
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing an audiovisual content aiming to censure scenes called sensitive scenes, for example scenes comprising sex and/or violence, in the audiovisual content and a device implementing the method. According to the invention, the display of a sensitive scene of the audiovisual content is replaced, during the temporal interval intended for the display of said sensitive segment, by the reproduction of audio-description data of the audio-description signal that is usually intended for blind or visually impaired persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Matthieu Fradet, Alasdair Newson, Cedric Penet
  • Method for setting a watching level for an audiovisual content
    Patent number: 9247296
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for setting a watching level to an audiovisual content which some frames are already annotated with watching levels. Upon the reception of the audiovisual content, frames annotated with watching levels are extracted and displayed in a single view. One of the displayed frames is selected by the user, the watching level of the selected frame being set as watching level to the audiovisual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Franck Botta, Patrick Gallardo, Cedric Penet, Claire-Helene Demarty
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
    Publication number: 20150179220
    Abstract: The invention discloses an apparatus and a method of processing a multimedia content. A content processing apparatus includes: a display displaying a multimedia content and associated levels of at least one characteristic of at least two components of the multimedia content; an interface receiving a command for modifying the level of the at least one characteristic of at least one of the components with regard to at least one of the other components; and a processor modifying the at least one of the at least two components according to the level of the at least one characteristic requested by the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Claire-Helene Demarty, Cedric Penet, Christel Chamaret
  • METHOD FOR SETTING A WATCHING LEVEL FOR AN AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT
    Publication number: 20130254795
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for setting a watching level to an audiovisual content which some frames are already annotated with watching levels. Upon the reception of the audiovisual content, frames annotated with watching levels are extracted and displayed in a single view. One of the displayed frames is selected by the user, the watching level of the selected frame being set as watching level to the audiovisual content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Franck Botta, Patrick Gallardo, Cedric Penet, Claire-Helene Demarty