Alan A Stein

US Patent:

20120320154, Dec 20, 2012

Filed:

Dec 9, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/315355

Inventors:

Gad Moshe BERGER - Dayton NJ, US
David Brian Anderson - Hamilton NJ, US
Alan Jay Stein - Princeton Junction NJ, US

International Classification:

H04N 13/00

US Classification:

348 43, 348E13002

Abstract:

A system and method for adjusting the depth or view of three dimensional (3D) images in streaming video is provided. The invention enables the 3D streaming video client to change among different 3D disparities without any knowledge of the disparity maps or requiring any image processing at the client. Multiple versions of the video sequence are pre-encoded with each version representing a different disparity. The disparity of the 3D image may be changed on-the-fly to a selected rendering of a particular disparity. The 3D video player may switch among disparities seamlessly during playback.

US Patent:

20140314393, Oct 23, 2014

Filed:

Dec 2, 2011

Appl. No.:

14/356907

Inventors:

Gad Moshe Berger - Dayton NJ, US
Alan Jay Stein - Princeton Junction NJ, US
Zhenyu Wu - Plainsboro NJ, US

Assignee:

THOMSON LICENSING a corporation - Issy de Moulineaux

International Classification:

H04N 5/917
H04N 19/50

US Classification:

386330

Abstract:

The present invention concerns a method and associated apparatus for reclaiming storage space on a personal video recorder using scalable video coding. When the personal video recorder reaches a storage threshold, enhancement layers of lower priority recordings may be removed to reduce the storage 5 space required for continued storage of those recordings. Various priority schemes may be utilized to determine which recordings should undergo layer removal, and which layers should be removed.