Abstract:
A method for adapting error protection in a communication network includes: a step of determining periods of time that are homogeneous as regards the distribution law of losses over the network, a step of classifying the homogeneous periods of time into at least two classes, on the basis of information representing losses over the network and/or representing a corresponding level of protection, during these periods of time, a step of determining a probability of alternation between two of said classes, and a step of selecting a protection strategy on the basis of said probability of alternation. A method of detecting transition between two states of a communication network corresponding to different loss rates of sent data includes: a step of determining a probability of transition, and a step of determining the existence of a transition on the basis of said probability.
Abstract:
The invention concerns the decoding of a digital signal comprising at least one encoded digital image, a digital image being represented by a plurality of samples. The decoding method comprises, when a part of one said encoded digital image to be decoded is missing, applying a first decoding to the encoded digital image having the missing part so as to obtain a first decoded image, the first decoding involving setting a missing sample, being one of said samples in said missing part, to a first value. A second decoding is applied to said first decoded image using additional data, derived by the encoder from at least part of the encoded digital image and usable during decoding to correct the encoded digital image, to obtain a partially corrected symbol representative of said sample, said partially corrected symbol comprising at least one unknown bit. Finally, a second value for said missing sample is obtained based upon said first value and said partially corrected symbol. Thanks to this method, even a partial correction using additional data can be used to improve the values of missing samples of a digital image at the decoder side. As a result, the quality of reconstruction of missing parts of an image can be improved.
Abstract:
A sequence of digital images encoded according to a predictive format is decoded using encoded auxiliary data which is representative of at least part of the sequence of digital images. A current encoded image, received with at least one detected error, is decoded. The decoding includes applying an error concealment decoding on at least part of the current encoded image containing such a detected error to obtain a first decoded image. An item of information representative of reconstruction errors is obtained based upon a reconstruction confidence of the error concealment decoding for at least one pixel of the error-containing part of the current image. The encoded auxiliary data and the first decoded image are processed based upon the item of information representative of reconstruction errors to obtain corrected auxiliary data. The first decoded image is modified to obtain a second decoded image based upon the corrected auxiliary data.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for transmitting over a data communication network data packets of a data stream to a receiving device, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: selecting a data packet from a buffer memory containing data packets to be transmitted (301, 401); determining whether the playout time of the selected data packet at the receiving device allows a recovery of said selected data packet (303, 410); assigning a first priority level or a second priority level to the selected data packet based on the result of the determining step (306, 307, 411, 413); and transmitting the selected data packet with said assigned first or second priority level (308, 408). The invention relates also to a software application and a transmitting device implementing the transmission method.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of managing the quantity of data transmitted by a transmission device over a telecommunication network, characterized in that the method comprises the steps, carried out by the transmission device, of: obtaining (E503), for at least a first and second data set that have to be transmitted over the telecommunication network, the quantity of data within each data set and the time constraint on each data set; determining (E504) the bitrate for transmission of the first data set in accordance with the time constraint on the first data set; determining (E504) the bitrate for transmission of the first and second data sets in accordance with the time constraint on the second data set; and selecting (E504) the maximum of the determined bitrates as a parameter for managing the quantity of data transmitted by the transmission device.
Abstract:
The object of the method and devices according to the invention is the optimization of the transmission of data packets, transmitted by several sources, in a network, when there is interference. After having received a data packet and determined its source, this data packet is analyzed in order to determine whether data packets transmitted by this source have been lost. If data packets have been lost, the type of transmission error related to the source is determined and the transmission parameters are modified according to the type of error determined. The parameters for determining the type of errors are related to the comparison of the global loss rate for data packets related to this source with the global loss rate for data packets related to all the sources.
Abstract:
The method of sending at least one item of information relative to a multimedia data stream in a communication network is characterized in that it comprises the following steps carried out on a server device capable of sending the multimedia data stream over the network: obtaining at least one item of information relative to the data stream, said at least one item of information comprising an item of information on a visual quality of the multimedia data stream and an item of information on the bandwidth necessary for sending the stream with that visual quality, and sending said at least one obtained item of information over the communication network to a client device.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method of displaying a sequence for sharing digital data items with a set of recipients using a terminal capable of using at least two communication modes for communicating with the recipients. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a first list of recipients communicating with the terminal according to a first communication mode, obtaining at least one second list of recipients communicating with the terminal according to a second communication mode, displaying on the mobile terminal a representation of each recipient in the lists thus obtained, selecting at least one representation, determining the communication mode to be used according to the representation selected and sending data item to the recipient whose representation was selected according to the determined communication mode. The invention also describes a sharing device adapted to implement the method, in particular a digital camera.
Abstract:
The method according to the invention is implemented in a telecommunications system comprising at least one server device (11, 13, 14) able to hold digital data and to receive at least one request (RQ) for supplying the holding server device and at least one client device (11 to 14) able to store a replica of the digital data of the holding server device and at least one replication server (11, 13 to 16) able to store a replica of the digital data of the holding server device to supply the digital data replica to the client device. The method comprises the step, executed in a data server at the time of the reception by it of a request to obtain digital data coming from a client, of creating, on the basis of predetermined information relating to the servers and/or to the clients, a replica of the requested digital data in said replication server device after the reception of the request for an indirect supply by a replication server. The method is particularly adapted to implementation in a P2P network.