Patents by Inventor Daniel Lecomte
Daniel Lecomte 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).
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Patent number: 10979746Abstract: A process distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step is applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: OL Security Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 10230998Abstract: A process distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step is applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 9930380Abstract: A process distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step is applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 9344746Abstract: A process distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step is applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: OL Security Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 9038096Abstract: A method for distributing a digital image content, including a modification stage of an original digital image content by modifying at least a part of digital image data, the modification producing a modified digital image content of the same nominal format as the original digital image content, transmitting the modified digital image content, and a reconstruction stage implemented within a decoder for obtaining a reconstituted digital image content, wherein the reconstruction is adaptive and progressive as a function of information coming from a digital profile of the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: NAGRA FRANCE SASInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Lozanov, Sebastien Georges, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 9008306Abstract: A process for distributing digital audio sequences according to a nominal stream format that include a succession of frames, each of which includes at least one digital audio block grouping a plurality of coefficients corresponding to digitally coded audio elements, including modifying at least one block of an original stream of sequences, in an adaptive manner on the original stream as a function of at least a part of characteristics representative of the structure, content and parameters of the original stream, a target profile and external events.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova
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Patent number: 8903089Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for distributing video sequences in a coded stream. The methods and systems include analyzing an original coded stream, generating at least one modified coded sub-frame, generating, based upon the analysis, a modified stream and a second stream by replacing an original coded sub-frame by the modified coded sub-frame, so that the modification from the original coded sub-frame results in a visually altered video sequence, transmitting the first and the second generated streams, and reconstructing the original stream using the modified coded sub-frame contained in the second stream.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Nagra FranceInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Joel Wenger
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Patent number: 8793722Abstract: A process for secure distribution of video sequences coded in accordance with a nominal stream format including visual data and data for configuration of decoding of the stream that does not represent the visual data, wherein, prior to transmission to client equipment, an analysis is made of the stream for generating a modified main stream having a format of the nominal stream and having pictures/images modified by modification of the data for configuration of decoding, and complementary digital information of any format including digital information suitable to permit reconstruction of modified pictures, then, for separately transmitting the modified main stream and complementary digital information generated from a server to the client equipment, and wherein a synthesis of a stream in the nominal format is calculated on the client equipment as a function of the modified main stream and the complementary information.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Nagra FranceInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Sebastien Georges
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Patent number: 8782688Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may relate to the distribution of digital audiovisual sequences. The distribution of such sequences may involve generating and transmitting modified sequences and complementary information. The complementary information may allow reconstruction of the original sequences from the modified sequences.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Reda Hosny
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Patent number: 8695029Abstract: A method of distributing digital video sequences in the form of a stream including sequences of data containing digital images, including a modification stage of an original stream by modifying at least a part of the sequences, the modification producing a modified stream of the same nominal format as the original stream, transmitting the modified stream, and a reconstruction stage implemented with a decoder, wherein the reconstruction is adaptive and progressive in function of information coming from a digital profile of the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Nagra FranceInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova, Sébastien Georges
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Patent number: 8433092Abstract: A process for secured distribution of video sequences according to a digital stream format stemming from an encoding based on a processing by wavelets including frames including blocks containing coefficients of wavelets describing the visual elements, including analyzing the stream prior to transmission to client equipment to generate a modified main stream by deletion and replacement of selected information coding the original stream and having the format of the original stream, and complementary information of any format comprising the digital information coding the original stream and suitable for permitting reconstruction of the modified frames; and transmitting the modified main stream and the complementary information separately from a server to addressed equipment.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Jerome Caporossi
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Patent number: 8374348Abstract: A method of distributing video sequences according to a nominal flow format including a succession of frames each including at least one I block corresponding to a complete digital I image and at least one N block corresponding to differences between a digital N image and at least one other image including analyzing the flow of sequences to generate a first modified flow having a format of a nominal flow and having modified N blocks and a second flow of any format including digital information required to reconstruct the modified blocks; and transmitting the first and second flows from a server to destination equipment, and calculating on the destination equipment a synthesis of a flow in a nominal format as a function of the first flow and the second flow.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Nagra FranceInventor: Daniel Lecomte
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Patent number: 8311125Abstract: A process for distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Querrell Data Limited Liability CompamyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Pierre Sarda
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Patent number: 8270402Abstract: A process for secure distribution of original digital audiovisual streams including audio, video components or other data, including packetizing the original stream into packets that can be manipulated and have a flexible size, wherein each packet includes a header containing information about the packet and a useful load including part of the data of the stream, analyzing the packetized stream prior to transmission to client equipment to generate a main stream in conformity with a packetized format of the original stream, modified in that all or part of the packets were substituted by packets of the same structure, but whose content was modified, and generating complementary information with any format suitable to permit reconstruction of the original stream, and separately transmitting the modified main stream and complementary information generated from the server to addressed equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Mohammed Lamtouni
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Patent number: 8270598Abstract: A process for distributing audiovisual sequences may involve generating a modified main stream from an audiovisual sequence as well as complementary information that may enable equipment receiving the modified main stream and the complementary information to synthesize the audiovisual sequence. The modified main stream and the complementary information may be separately transmitted to the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Charles-Emile Grondin
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Publication number: 20120201384Abstract: A process for distributing digital audio sequences according to a nominal stream format that include a succession of frames, each of which includes at least one digital audio block grouping a plurality of coefficients corresponding to digitally coded audio elements, including modifying at least one block of an original stream of sequences, in an adaptive manner on the original stream as a function of at least a part of characteristics representative of the structure, content and parameters of the original stream, a target profile and external events.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova
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Patent number: 8229117Abstract: A process for the distribution of digital audiovisual sequences. An analysis is made prior to transmission to a dynamic group of receivers to generate a first modified main stream and complementary information. A synthesis of a stream in the original format is calculated on the receiver as a function of the modified main stream and the complementary information. Generation of the complementary information is constituted of the following steps: extraction of at least one original piece of data of the original stream, storage of the original data in the complementary information, formatting the complementary information in segments with each segment corresponding to at least one entire audiovisual element of the modified main stream, and encapsulation of at least one segment with at least one piece of access information in at least one data block to generate at least one access ticket for the corresponding audiovisual elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Reda Hosny
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Patent number: 8200498Abstract: A process for distributing digital audio sequences according to a nominal flux format including a succession of fields, each of which includes at least one digital block clusterizing a selected number of coefficients corresponding to single audio elements that are digitally coded inside the flux and utilized by audio decoders that are able to play it to be able to decode it correctly, including a preparatory step including modifying at least one of the coefficients, and a transmission step including a primary flux in compliance with a nominal format including blocks that were modified during the preparatory step and by a route separated from the primary flux by an additional piece of digital information which allows reconstruction of the original flux starting with a calculation, on recipient equipment, as a function of the primary flux and of the additional information.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel LeComte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova
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Patent number: 8184809Abstract: A process for distributing digital audio sequences according to a nominal stream format that include a succession of frames, each of which includes at least one digital audio block grouping a plurality of coefficients corresponding to digitally coded audio elements, including modifying at least one block of an original stream of sequences, in an adaptive manner on the original stream as a function of at least a part of characteristics representative of the structure, content and parameters of the original stream, a target profile and external events.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova
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Patent number: 8094953Abstract: A process for secured distribution of fixed numerical images according to a nominal format resulting from numerical encoding in wavelets, represented by a original stream including a packet relating to organization of a binary sequence that contains at least a block that regroups numerically encoded simple elements according to a mode specified inside the stream and utilized by decoders that are capable of reconstructing or decoding it to be able to correctly display the image including modifying at least one of the simple elements according to at least a substitution operation including extracting the simple element, followed by its replacement by lure data, modifying a principal stream to conform to a nominal format including modified blocks and packets, and by a path that is separate from the principal stream of complementary numerical information and allowing reconstruction of the original stream from calculations, on destination equipment, as a function of the principal stream and the complementary inforType: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Querell Data Limited Liability CompanyInventors: Daniel Lecomte, Daniela Parayre-Mitzova, Jerome Caporossi