Abstract: The invention relates to a system which includes an observation device (14) including a camera (7) and a cooperative optronic beacon (13) providing all the necessary information to the observation device in order to localize it with a 6D coordinates (position and attitude); thus the invention provides a solution to the problem of a 6D localization of a camera using one single cooperative optronic beacon (13); thanks to the information provided by the cooperative optronic beacon (13), this allows the camera (7) of the observation device (14), by observing this cooperative optronic beacon (13) and by processing the corresponding information, to determine its own 6 localization coordinates in reference to this cooperative optronic beacon (13); so the system according to the invention is suited in particular for the localization of drones, robots, Smartphone, etc. in environments where presence of other localization services (GPS or others) are not available.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system which includes an observation device (14) including a camera (7) and a cooperative optronic beacon (13) providing all the necessary information to the observation device in order to localize it with a 6D coordinates (position and attitude). The invention provides a solution to the problem of a 6D localization of a camera using one single cooperative optronic beacon (13). Thanks to the information provided by a cooperative optronic beacon (13), the camera (7) of the observation device (14), by observing this cooperative optronic beacon (13) and by processing the corresponding information, determines its own 6 localization coordinates in reference to this cooperative optronic beacon (13). The system according to the invention is suited in particular for the localization of drones, robots, Smartphone, etc. in environments where presence of other localization services (GPS or others) are not available.

Abstract: A camera device comprises a first detector having opto-electronic sensors for enabling an entire image to be input simultaneously, and associated with an optical system of long focal length. A second detector is associated with an optical system that gives a large field of view, covering the field of the first detector and extending beyond it. The camera device also includes means for synchronizing the images taken by the two detectors and for recording them.

Abstract: A three-dimensional reflector for object attitude detection responds to illumination from a radiating source to produce a discrete array of light points aligned along a locus on the reflector. The array is characteristic of the reflector position with respect to the radiating source. The reflector has a corrugated surface formed with plural, parallel and spatially periodic, adjacent undulations, each having a crest and a trough. The undulations are arranged such that the locus runs through the reflector center of symmetry and the foot point of a perpendicular dropped by a detector for the array onto the surface. The foot point is a determinate point of the locus.