Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of selecting content for display during a journey to alleviate motion sickness, the method comprising: receiving information indicative of a route for a journey; detecting at least a first portion of the journey having a first predetermined characteristic; identifying a time period corresponding to the first portion of the journey; and selecting one or more items of content having a second predetermined characteristic for display over the time period.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of alleviating motion sickness in a user viewing an image on a display, the method comprising: displaying an image on a display device, the display device being a first distance from a user viewing the image on the display device; generating a virtual screen corresponding to the display device by projecting a line from the user and the display device to a second location, the distance of the second location from the user being greater than the first distance; detecting a movement of the user and the display device to a new location relative to the virtual screen; determining a new image location by projecting a line from the virtual screen location to the new location of the user; and displaying an image on the display device at the new image location for at least a portion of the image for which the new image location intersects with the display device.

Abstract: A method of monitoring one or more physiological parameters of a consumer of audio and/or visual content, the method comprising: determining one or more expected physiological parameter values of the consumer when consuming the content based on a classification of the content; comparing the one or more expected physiological parameter values with one or more corresponding actual physiological parameter values of the consumer when consuming the content; performing a process in response to one or more of the one or more actual physiological parameter values differing from its corresponding expected physiological parameter value.

Abstract: A method of operating a vehicle is provided. The method includes monitoring, by control circuitry in combination with one or more sensors in the vehicle, one or more parameters indicating a motion of the vehicle over a time period, capturing, by one or more cameras in the vehicle, one or more images of a region surrounding the vehicle over the time period; detecting, by the control circuitry in the vehicle based on the monitored parameters, that a risk action has been performed by the vehicle at a time within the time period, transmitting, by transmitter circuitry in combination with the control circuitry in the vehicle, image data of the one or more images of the region surrounding the vehicle and measurements of the monitored parameters indicating the motion of the vehicle over the time period to a server along with an indication that the risk action has been performed.

Abstract: A method of notifying a target that the target was a likely cause of an emergency action performed by a vehicle is provided. The method comprises monitoring, by control circuitry in the vehicle, one or more parameters of the vehicle indicating a motion of the vehicle, detecting, by the control circuitry based on the monitored parameters, that an emergency action has been performed by the vehicle to avoid a collision, identifying, by the control circuitry, that an object in a region surrounding the vehicle was a likely cause of the emergency action, the object being a notification target, causing, by the control circuitry in combination with transmitter circuitry in the vehicle, a notification to be transmitted to at least one of a communication device of the notification target or a server indicating that the notification target was the likely cause of the emergency action.

Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting a digital speech signal at low throughput. Coding is performed by code excited linear prediction in order to generate a code signal, a waveform being represented by an initial vector (O) of dimension L, from a filter for synthesizing by a reference waveform selected from a dictionary of reference vectors (v), relating to a criterion of minimum deviation min .parallel..chi.-H.v.parallel..sup.2, .chi. representing a target vector through perceptual weighting of the initial vector (O). A dictionary (Y) factorized as a product of basis vectors yi of n-ary form, which are corrected by a scale factor .gamma.i of distribution of the excitation energy, and a dictionary G(y) of gains gk, are established to represent the dictionary of the reference vectors (v), vk, i=gk..gamma..yi. The criterion is established by calculating C(gk, .gamma.i.yi)=2gk<.chi..vertline.H..gamma.i.yi>-gk.sup.2 formed of the scalar products and perceptual energies.