Abstract: A method for coding (k, r) data and a method for reconstructing data are provided. The coding method includes steps consisting in: dividing an initial datum a into k data blocks ai; grouping the k data blocks into r?1 subsets Sj of data blocks; generating, for each subset Sj, a linear function gj(a) defined as a linear combination of the data blocks assigned to said subset Sj; and generating r parity functions comprising a primary parity function f0(a) as a linear combination of the k data blocks ai, and r?1 secondary parity functions, each secondary parity function fj(a) being defined as the sum of the primary parity function f0(a) and of a linear function gj(a).

Abstract: An optical system for detecting and tracking the eye movements of an individual. The system includes a frame, intended to be worn on the face of the individual, that includes a plurality of illumination sources. The system includes at least one contact lens, intended to be worn by an eye of the individual facing the frame, in which are encapsulated: an autonomous integrated circuit, a plurality of photoreceptors and a wireless communication transmitter. Variation in a signal (e.g., voltage or current) delivered by the photoreceptors allows not only the closure of the eyelid but also eye movements to be detected.

Abstract: The method of assisting the production of an implantable unfurlable made to measure device comprises: three-dimensional reconstruction of a complex surface of the cavity in which the device will be implanted; Production of a first finite element mesh of this complex surface; Choosing of generic components of the device; Production of a second finite element mesh of these assembled generic components; Determination of the morphosis parameters for morphosing from the first mesh to a mesh of a set of simple linked volumes which is representative of the part of the cavity, and then deformation of the first mesh by this morphosis; Simulation of a deformation of the second mesh, by inverse morphosis dependent on the determined parameters, to the complex surface, simulating unfurling of the device; Determination of dimensioning of points of interest by projection onto the second deformed mesh; and Generation of a production blueprint plan of the device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antennal structure adapted to be disposed on an earth plane comprising: a three-dimensional support substrate made of a dielectric material which is partially hollowed out and comprising a peripheral wall which extends between a proximal end and a distal end, said support substrate defining an internal volume; a first conducting pattern inscribed on the peripheral wall of the support substrate, the first conducting pattern comprising a lower end adapted to be connected to an earth plane and an upper end; a second conducting pattern contained in the volume of the substrate, the second pattern being connected electrically to the upper end of the first pattern.

Abstract: A method for generating a reduced-blur digital image representing a scene, the method being computer-implemented and comprising the following successive steps: i) providing at least two digital source images, a same element of the scene being represented in at least two source images, ii) selecting a reference image among the source images, iii) for at least one source image different from the reference image, and for at least one pixel of the reference image, a) defining a pattern in the reference image comprising pixels of the reference image, the element being represented in said pattern, b) constructing a map of coordinates that associates coordinates of the pattern in the reference image with the coordinates of the most similar pattern in the source image, c) optionally, filtering of the map of coordinates, and d) generating a corrected image by assigning to a pixel of the corrected image, the position of the pixel of the reference image and a color extracted from the source image point which position i

Abstract: The invention discloses an antenna arrangement and a method of designing the same, the antenna arrangement being tuned to radiate in a plurality of bands. The antenna arrangement comprises a first conductive element which has a compact linear 2D or 3D form factor. It also comprises leaves attached to the first conductive element, the position, dimension, form factor and orientation of which are defined based on their impact on frequency shifts of the fundamental and harmonic modes, so that the antenna arrangement radiates at a plurality of predefined frequencies. The design method uses maps of hot areas where the sensitivity to the parameters defined for the leaves is maximal. Advantageously, the design method is performed in a manner which uses an orthogonality of the impacts of the parameters of the leaves vis-à-vis the different radiating modes. The antenna arrangement is compact and well adapted to applications to the IoT and consumer communication devices.

Abstract: An encoder architecture for UF-OFDM is provided, in which samples are first processed sub-band wise, and then resorted for sub-carrier-wise processing. The sub-carrier processing may comprise separate processing for the two extremity parts of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream and for a core part of the base band signal corresponding to the non-transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream, and then concatenated to obtain a UF-OFDM data stream. In certain embodiments a first extremity part of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream is calculated directly, and the other extremity part inferred from the core part and the first extremity part. The core and extremity part processors may be implemented with filters adapted to multiply each sample by a respective filter coefficient. Modifying these coefficients can introduce a frequency shift or convert the encoder for OFDM encoding.

Abstract: A mechanism for attributing users to a plurality of sub bands in a time slot t in a multiple access communications system, said method comprising assigning a combination of users to a sub band on a Proportional Fairness basis, that is to say whichever combination of users maximizes a Proportional Fairness performance metric for that channel, where the performance metric is weighted by a weighting factor reflecting the difference for that user between a target throughput and a projected throughput.

Abstract: There is provided a method of generating a space-time block code (STBC) for encoding a digital data sequence comprising a set of independent symbols to be transmitted through a transmission channel in a communication system, the space-time block code being represented by a set of linear dispersion matrices in a linear dispersion representation, each linear dispersion matrix comprising components having complex values, the method comprising, generating at least some of the linear dispersion matrices depending on component-wise conditions related to a set of selected pairs of the linear dispersion matrices, each pair comprising a first linear dispersion matrix and a second linear dispersion matrix, said component-wise conditions comprising a component-wise condition between the components of the first linear dispersion matrix and the components of the second linear dispersion matrix.

Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a system for measuring vibrations of a surface of a mechanical part, by digital holography. The system includes a source of radiation emitting in a predetermined range of frequencies, a first separator element configured to define a first incident ray and a reference ray, a module for shaping a second incident ray from the first incident ray, and an optical element configured to make the reference ray and a radiation produced by a reflection of the incident ray on the surface of the mechanical part interfere. The module for shaping the second incident ray includes diffracting optical elements having a diffraction structure to diffract the incident radiation. The structure is from a polymer, sol-gel or photoresin material resting against a glass substrate, the structure including elements etched in a plane parallel and/or orthogonal to the substrate, with dimensions from 100 nanometres to 100 micrometres.

Abstract: There is provided a decoder for decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the decoder (310) comprising a symbol estimation unit (311) configured to determine estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal, the estimated symbols being determined from nodes of a decoding tree based on a weight metric associated with each of the node. The decoder further comprises a termination alarm monitoring unit (312) for monitoring a termination alarm depending on the current decoding computation complexity, the termination alarm being associated with a metric parameter, the symbol estimation unit being configured to reduce the weight metric of each node of the decoding tree by a quantity corresponding to a function of the metric parameter associated with the termination alarm, in response to the triggering of the termination alarm.

Abstract: Systems and associated methods of performing coherent optical communication of quantum information between an emitter A and a distant receiver B are provided, using a local local oscillator. Examples of LLO-based Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution are described. Self-coherent schemes are used, the schemes consisting in deriving both signal and phase reference pulses from the same optical pulse thus ensuring an intrinsic strong signal to reference phase coherence. Different CV-QKD designs implementing various self-coherence phase sharing schemes are described and compared in terms of secret key rate and hardware requirements. Strong phase noise resilience can be obtained with standard telecom equipment such as low cost lasers.

Abstract: A method for locating at least one receiver in a positioning system. The system includes: at least two generators, each generator emitting, on a single carrier, at least two signals that each have a different code, and a receiver configured to detect the signals emitted by the generators. In the method: the receiver measures, for each generator, the phase difference between both signals emitted by the generator, and at least one geometric size, representing the position of the receiver in relation to the generators, is calculated on the basis of the measurements of the phase difference in order to locate the receiver in the positioning system.

Abstract: The invention discloses an antenna arrangement of a bonsai type, where not only the resonating frequencies may be adjusted, but also the bandwidth around some or all resonating frequencies. This is achieved by adding new branches to the trunk of the bonsai antenna arrangement. The positions and lengths of the branches are defined as a function of the frequencies around which the bandwidth should be adjusted. The antenna arrangement may be inscribed in a 3D compact volume of a specific form factor. It may also be inscribed in a planar structure. The antenna arrangement may be produced at a low cost. It may be used in a variety of applications, including communications in WiFi or other standards of multimedia content that need defined bandwidths for instance to comply to a predetermined quality of service.

Abstract: A method, device, and a computer program are provided to decode a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the received signal being represented by a signal vector.

Abstract: A reflecting cell including at least two substrates each covered by an electrode and facing each other, the substrates delimitating between them a volume which separates them and which is filled with a bistable liquid crystal-type material with a threshold field, for example a cholesteric liquid crystal, both electrodes being intended to be connected to a voltage source. This cell is characterized in that at least one of the electrodes is formed by associating a pattern, which does not entirely cover the surface of the substrate considered, and a conducting layer which covers the surface of the substrate considered, the conductivity of the material of the layer being lower than that of the material of the pattern.

Abstract: A method for recovering secret data of a cryptographic device comprises: a) determining stochastic models of leakages relating respective measurable quantities to internal states or operations of the cryptographic device, the number of greater than the number of masks used by the cryptographic device to conceal the secret data; b) sending command sequences to the device, where each command sequence causes the device to perform a cryptographic operation on at least one respective plaintext using the secret data and the masks; c) during processing of each cryptographic operation, recording a series of measurements of measurable quantities; and d) computing an estimator of secret data by maximizing the conditional joint probability of the recorded measurements given the corresponding plaintexts, averaged over all possible values of the masks. A method for evaluating the security of a cryptographic device is provided.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting the presence of an anomaly within an observed physical signal. The observed signal includes an addition of a physical disturbance signal and a reference signal. The anomaly is relative to a change in the behavior of the reference signal compared with a first tolerance value. Such a method includes: determining a time span having at least one moment of interest; detecting the presence of the anomaly within the observed physical signal during the time span by conducting a hypothesis test using the first tolerance value, a first rate of tolerated false alarms, and data obtained from processing the observed signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal comprising a vector of information symbols, said transmission channel being represented by an upper triangular matrix, wherein the decoder comprises: a processing unit (309) configured to determine a set of division parameters depending on at least one division metric derived from components of said upper triangular matrix; a decoding unit (311) configured to divide said upper triangular matrix into two or more sub-matrices using said set of division parameters in accordance with a division of said vector of information symbols into two or more sub-vectors, and to determine at least one estimate of each sub-vector of information symbols by applying a symbol estimation algorithm, wherein the decoder is configured to determine at least one estimate of said vector of information symbols from the estimates of said sub-vectors of information symbols.

Abstract: A method of retrieving a file, the method including: receiving a portion of a content transmitted in accordance with a multicast protocol via a file delivery service, wherein the content includes data fragments forming a file; receiving a file delivery table (FDT) from the file delivery service; reading in the file delivery table location attributes indicating locations of the data fragments in the file; and determining from the location attributes locations of non-corrupted data fragments in the content portion.