Abstract: An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impairment in a part of their visual field includes body-worn sensors to inform them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired sides.

Abstract: An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impairment in a part of their visual field includes body-worn sensors to inform them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired sides.

Abstract: A system for inducing a subject to fall to sleep includes a light pattern generator for generating a time varying light pattern in view of the subject. Further, the system includes a breathing rate measuring unit for measuring a breathing frequency of the subject. In addition, the system includes a control unit connected to the breathing rate measuring unit and the light pattern generator, for controlling the light pattern generator such that the generated light pattern has a pattern frequency substantially between the measured breathing frequency and a pre-selected desired frequency.

Abstract: When installing components of a remote patient health monitoring system (14?), a generic off-the-shelf set top box (STB) (12) and home gateway (30) are configured by inserting a configuration carrier (42) into each device. The configuration carrier (42) has stored thereon configuration routines and information provided by the remote health monitoring service provider. Configuration information includes, without being limited to, network IDs and channel information, hardware ID information, and the like. The home gateway (30) is connected to the STB (12) using WiFi network link, and to a central server (20) over an Ethernet link. The home gateway (30) is further coupled to one or more patient monitoring devices using a wireless link, such as Bluetooth.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for inducing a subject to fall to sleep, comprising a light pattern generator (3) for generating a time varying light pattern in view of the subject. Further, the system comprises a breathing rate measuring unit (2) for measuring a breathing frequency of the subject. In addition, the system comprises a control unit connected to the breathing rate measuring unit and the light pattern generator, for controlling the light pattern generator (3), such that the generated light pattern has a pattern frequency (13) substantially between the measured breathing frequency (8) and a pre-selected desired frequency (5).

Abstract: A method is proposed of enabling to render mass-market content information to a user. The method comprises enabling to use a provile of the user for control of processing the electronic content for the purpose of personalizing the rendering during play-out of the content.

Abstract: A method for post-synchronizing information stream includes obtaining lip-objects from a video signal. The original lip-objects are replaced with new lip-objects which correspond to a translated audio signal. The new lip-objects may be obtained by tracking a further video signal or by using a database with visemes or lip-parameters. For a multi-language information stream, a desired language may be selected at the receiver.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for recommending content items. A user profile processor (113) determines (201) a user preference profile for a user for different categories of content. When a content item is received (203), a recommender processor (111) determines (205) if a first content item correlates with the user preference profile. If there is such an associative correspondence, the content item is recommended (206) to the user. If not, the recommender processor (111) determines (211) if the received content item comprises at least a first characteristic having an associative correspondence to at least a second characteristic of a second content item having a high user preference. If there is such an associative correspondence, the received content item is recommended to the user. The associative correspondence may be determined to exist if textual descriptions for the two content items comprise similar words.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for post-synchronizing an information stream. Original lip-objects (lo) are obtained (2) from a video signal (V). These original lip-objects (lo) are replaced (3,4) with new lip-objects (lo*), which correspond to a translated audio signal (A*). Lip-objects (lo) can be obtained from the video signal (V) by using an object-oriented coding technique, e.g. MEG-4. The coding standard MPEG-4 offers the facilities to manipulate the lip-objects (lo). Several configurations are presented. The new lip-objects (lo*) can be obtained by tracking a further video signal or by using a database with visemes or lip-parameters. The invention is suitable for a communication network, e.g. for video-conferencing. A multi-language information stream comprises a plurality of audio signals (A,A*) and a plurality of lip-objects (lo,lo*) that are each linked to one of the audio signals (A,A*). This gives the possibility to select at the receiver a desired language.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for post-synchronizing an information stream. Original lip-objects (lo) are obtained (2) from a video signal (V). These original lip-objects (lo) are replaced (3,4) with new lip-objects (lo*), which correspond to a translated audio signal (A*). Lip-objects (lo) can be obtained from the video signal (V) by using an object-oriented coding technique, e.g. MPEG-4. The coding standard MPEG-4 offers the facilities to manipulate the lip-objects (lo). Several configurations are presented. The new lip-objects (lo*) can be obtained by tracking a further video signal or by using a database with visemes or lip-parameters. The invention is suitable for a communication network, e.g. for video-conferencing. A multi-language information stream comprises a plurality of audio signals (A,A*) and a plurality of lip-objects (lo,lo*) that are each linked to one of the audio signals (A,A*). This gives the possibility to select at the receiver a desired language.