Patent ID: 8418038

Claim:
A method of correcting errors in a data stream of at least one image, implemented in a data reception device, said at least one image being cut up into image portions, said stream being coded by image portion, and divided into data packets, the method comprising: a step of detecting at least one lost data packet; determining a strategy for cutting up said at least one image into image portions; determining data that is decodable in an image portion containing the at least one lost data packet; determining, according to the determined cutting-up strategy and a quantity of decodable coded data received by said reception device, an item of information representing a reconstruction quality of data included in said at least one lost data packet by an error correcting method; adapting said error correcting method according to the determined item of information representing the reconstruction quality; and applying the error correcting method adapted in the adapting step to reconstruct the data included in said at least one lost data packet.