Patent ID: 8824566

Claim:
A reception method implemented in a receiver apparatus receiving images of a video sequence having undergone losses during an exchange of data with a sender apparatus connected to the receiver apparatus via a communication network, the receiver apparatus comprising at least a first module implementing a transport layer and a second module implementing an application layer, the application layer being subdivided into a first sub-module implementing the decoding of the video and a second sub-module implementing the display of the video, said method comprising the steps of: storing, by action of the transport layer, into memory a packet received from the sender apparatus, and transmitting a data loss detection signal directly to the application layer at the moment that the transport layer detects that a packet in an error-tainted image is not received from the sender apparatus; determining, by action of the application layer, whether the data loss detection signal is received from the transport layer; implementing a loss concealment mechanism based on information obtained from at least one image from a sequence of images starting with the image following reception of the data loss detection signal and ending with an image preceding the error-tainted image , when it is determined the application layer determines that the data loss detection signal is received, wherein implementing the loss concealment mechanism commences before triggering error-tainted image decoding by retrieval of a packet comprising data of the error-tainted image from the memory; and decoding a packet retrieved from the memory, when the application layer determines that the data loss detection signal is not received.