US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND on Nov. 3 for "Managing ambient light according to the programme" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,140, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Managing ambient light according to the programme" was invented by Gabriel Bouvigne (Bois-Colombes, France) and Piero Indiveri (Bois-Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing ambient light, implemented in a set-top box, which is connected to a viewing device and to a lighting device, includes the steps of detecting a start of a broadcasting of a first current programme, selecting, in a light parameter base, first current values of light parameters, which are associated with programme metadata corresponding to the first c...