Inventor

OSTERMANN RALF

DE110 patents

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OSTERMANN RALF

THOMSON LICENSING

Method for representing animated menu buttons

Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data

Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data

Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles

Method for run-length encoding of a bitmap data stream

Database model for hierarchical data formats

Method for generating multi-language menus

Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data

Method and device for composing a menu

Method for automatically selecting a software application

Method for generating an interactive menu

Method for retrieving data from first and second storage medium

Reproducing a digital datastream containing program information for trick mode display

Method and apparatus for simplifying the access of metadata

Method and apparatus for controlling the insertion of stuffing data into a bitstream to be recorded

Method and apparatus for removing outliers from a main view of a scene during 3D scene reconstruction

Method for generating an on-screen menu

Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data

Method for generating an on-screen menu

Method for generating an on-screen menu

Method and device for composing a menu

Method and device for composing a menu

Method for presenting menu buttons

Method for presenting menu buttons

Method and device for composing a menu

Method and device for composing a menu

Method for controlling an optical pick-up for reading data streams for simultaneous reproduction

Method and apparatus for decoding encoded groups of pictures of a video sequence and presenting said video sequence and said groups of pictures in temporally backward direction

Method for run-length encoding of a bitmap data stream

Method data recorder for recording data packet timestamps

Method and device for composing a menu

Method and device for composing a menu

Method for run-length encoding of a bitmap data stream

Method for run-length encoding of a bitmap data stream

Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles

Method and apparatus for executing software applications

GANDOLPH DIRK

Method and apparatus for cropping of subtitle elements

Method and apparatus for executing software applications

Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles

Bonding contents on separate storage media

WINTER MARCO

Method and device for handling multiple video streams using metadata

Method for generating a set of machine-interpretable instructions for presenting media content to a user

Method and apparatus for authoring a 24p audio/video data stream by supplementing it with additional 50i format data items

HOERENTRUP JOBST

Method for generating multi-language menus

Method for presenting menu buttons

THOMSON LICENSING SA

Method for pre-processing data packets

Method for regenerating the original data of a digitally coded video film, and apparatus for carrying out the method

THOMSON BRANDT GMBH

Method and apparatus for timestamping a bitstream to be recorded

OSTERMANN RALF

Method and apparatus for determining a similarity or dissimilarity measure

KLAUSBERGER WOLFGANG

Appliance-guided edit-operations in advanced digital video recording systems