Thomson Licensing Assigned Three Patents

Determining quality of storage system
Thomson Licensing, a Technicolor Business Division, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, has been assigned a patent (8,958,274) developed by Hepper, Dietmar, Hannover, Deutschland, Theis, Oliver, Kalletal, Deutschland, Chen, Xiaoming, Hannover, Deutschland, Hoelzemann, Herbert, Villingen, Deutschland, and Pilard, Gael, Wankheim, Deutschland, for a “method and system for determining the quality of a storage system.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for measuring a quality parameter of an optical storage system comprising a non-diffraction-limited optical storage medium and a readout device, the method comprising the process of deriving an impulse response of the optical storage system, and the process of analyzing the impulse response to determine at least one of a width of the impulse response and a skewness of the impulse response as the quality parameter.“

The patent application was filed on September 6, 2011 (13/820,543).

Archiving image
Thomson Licensing, a Technicolor Business Division, Issy les Moulineaux, France, has been assigned a patent (8,958,130) developed by Blawat, Meinolf, Jax, Peter, Gaedke, Klaus, and Huetter, Ingo, Hannover, Deutschland, for a “method and apparatus for archiving an image.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method and an apparatus for archiving an image on a photographic medium are described. The image consists of an array of pixels, where a color depth of the pixels is n bits. In addition to recording the array of pixels on the photographic medium also a subset of the n bits describing the color of the pixel is recorded on the photographic medium for each pixel.“

The patent application was filed on December 14, 2012 (13/715,755).

Producing security mark on optical data carrier
Thomson Licensing, a Technicolor Business Division, Issy les Moulineaux, France, has been assigned a patent (8,953,235) developed by Knittel, Joachim, Tuttlingen, Deutschland, and Richter, Hartmut, Villingen-Schwenningen, Deutschland, for a “method for producing a security mark on an optical data carrier.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A device for producing a security mark on an optical data carrier includes directing means for directing a first and a second light beam onto a hologram area of the optical data carrier, wherein the first and second light beams are coherent light beams. The directing means are adapted to direct the first light beam onto the hologram area along a first direction, and the second light beam onto the hologram area along a second direction. Tilting means are provided for tilting the second direction by a predefined tilt angle with respect to the first direction.“

The patent application was filed on October 16, 2007 (11/974,789).