Chaminda L Jayamanne

US Patent:

20130291024, Oct 31, 2013

Filed:

Jan 18, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/979477

Inventors:

Chad Andrew Lefevre - Indianapolis IN, US
Martin Vincent Davey - Indianapolis IN, US
Chaminda Jayamanne - Fishers IN, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/81

US Classification:

725 60

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for capturing a video frame and scraping the captured frame for data contained therein is provided. The scraping of the frame extracts data from the frame. A user, while watching television, requests a screen capture function. The video frame is stored in a (e.g., advertisement for local store, or frame buffer and further processing is performed to scrape the screen of data contained therein. In one example, text information such as phone numbers, web addresses, etc. can be identified using OCR technology. Once extracted, the information can be provided to the user in many different formats for further use or further processing.

US Patent:

20140219156, Aug 7, 2014

Filed:

Feb 1, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/693305

Inventors:

- Issy de Moulineaux, FR
Martin Vincent Davey - Indianapolis IN, US
Chaminda Jayamanne - Fishers IN, US
Gregory William Cook - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

THOMSON LICENSING - Issy de Moulineaux

International Classification:

H04W 72/00

US Classification:

370312

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for optimizing wireless local area network communications are described including receiving a request, from a wireless device, to join a multicast group in order to receive multicast data, determining if the request is a request from a subsequent wireless device for the same multicast data, converting the multicast data to unicast data, if the request is not from a subsequent wireless device or the request is not for the same multicast data and transmitting the converted data to the wireless device that requested the multicast data.