Abstract: A person may be identified by at least an identification system including a device for capturing an image of a venous network of a finger and a database containing reference venous network images partitioned by class according to topological characteristics and for each class reference topological characteristics. In one embodiment, an image of the venous network is captured, transmitted to the processing unit, centered relative to a display window, and cut into at least two bands parallel to the finger's axis. A set of each band's topological characteristics is extracted. A distance between the extracted set and all reference topological characteristics of the class is calculated, for each class. The venous network image is classified in the class corresponding to the smallest distance and is compared with each reference venous network image in the class. The authenticity of the person from the result of the comparison step is decided.

Abstract: A device for capturing an image representing a print of a part of the body of a person, the capture device may include: a base layer; a reference electrode covering the base layer; electronic capsules fixed in the form of a matrix on the reference electrode, each electronic capsule consisting of a microcapsule filled with a liquid medium and particles with two different colors and opposite electrical charges; a support plate covering the electronic capsules and serving as a support for said part; a camera intended to take an image of the electronic capsules; and an active electrode intended to come into contact with said part and electrically connected to a voltage source delivering a non-zero electrical voltage.

Abstract: The invention concerns an antifraud device (100) for validating the use of a real part of a body as an imprint-bearing substrate (150) and comprising: a control unit (106), a sensor (102) intended to capture the image of an imprint carried by the substrate (150) placed on said sensor (102), a movement module (104) on which said sensor (102) is mounted and which is intended to move said sensor (102), an analysis module (108) intended to receive the data representing an image of an imprint captured before the movement of said sensor (102) and an image of an imprint (200) captured after the movement of said sensor (102) and to analyze them, and a decision-making module (110) intended to make a decision as to whether or not the substrate (150) is a real part of a body, from information transmitted by the analysis module (108).

Abstract: A detection gate for detecting substances carried by an individual or an object, has two lateral uprights facing one another and defining a passage there between for the individual or the object, a blowing device installed in a blowing chamber in one of the uprights which are adapted to exhaust the air contained in the blowing chamber towards the other upright, an exhaust device installed in an exhaust chamber in the other upright, which are suitable for exhausting the air thus blown, a detection device arranged upstream from the passage and adapted to detect the presence of the substances in the air thus blown, and a transfer line which, via one of the ends thereof, leads into the blowing chamber and, via the other end thereof, into the exhaust chamber, the blowing device and the exhaust device being such that a single volume of air has time to pass through the passage at least twice during the time that individual or the object is present in the passage.

Abstract: A device for use in identifying or authenticating a subject positioned in an acquisition volume on the basis of at least one biometric characteristic of the subject, the device including in succession, in offset manner along a camera placement axis: a first camera; a second camera; and a third camera; the optical axes of the first and second cameras forming between them an angle strictly less than 10°, and the optical axis of the third camera intersecting the optical axes of the first and second cameras, the optical axes of the first and second cameras each forming an angle less than or equal to 5° relative to a normal axis perpendicular to the camera placement axis.

Abstract: The application relates in particular to a method for authentication of a secure electronic device (BNK_SRV) from a non-secured electronic device (PC, SP) comprising an input peripheral (KBD, MS, TS, CAM), an output peripheral (SCR, SPK, PRN) and a secure electronic circuit (TPM). The application also relates to a secure electronic circuit (TPM), a computer program and a storage medium arranged to implement such a method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of identifying a user, the method being implemented by means of a database containing personal data of users and containing for each user at least one unmodified biometric characteristic (E1,i), at least one biometric characteristic (E2,i) that has been modified and that is accessible from the unmodified biometric characteristic, and at least one item of identification data (D) that is accessible from a code identifying the modification that has implemented on the second biometric characteristic. The method comprises the steps of comparing first and second biometric characteristics (e1,i) read from the user with the characteristics in the database in order to determine (5) what modification has been implemented and to deduce therefrom the code identifying the modification; and extracting (6) the identification data by means of the code as deduced in this way. The invention also provides a database for implementing the method.

Abstract: An image composition device composites a no-flash image including a subject captured under ambient light and a flash image including the subject captured by emitting flash light to generate a composite image including the subject. The image composition device includes an input unit that enables the no-flash image and the flash image to be input, a correction unit that corrects the no-flash image and the flash image input from the input unit, and a composition unit that composites the no-flash image and the flash image output from the correction unit to generate a composite image. The correction unit corrects a color temperature of the no-flash image.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for partially up/downscaling an image encoded on a macroblock basis. The method and apparatus performs operations of: storing the encoded image; creating map data from bitstream of the encoded image to decode at least one macroblock of the encoded image, creating a shrunken image of a predetermined size based on resolution of a display device, storing the map data and the shrunken image so as to relate with the encoded image; outputting the shrunken image related with the encoded image to be displayed based on a control request received from an input device; determining at least one macroblock to be decoded based on a display area of the shrunken image; partially decoding the encoded image for the determined macroblock using the map data; and outputting to the display device, the image data of the display area of the partially decoded image.

Abstract: A method for signing up a person for biometric verification purposes is provided, the method including: acquiring an image of a biological attribute of the person, the biological attribute including a set of characteristic elements, defining, within the acquired image, at least one area that includes at least part of the biological attribute, and storing, in a biometric database, at least one piece of information indicating that the number of characteristic elements included in said defined area is less than a respective predetermined integer. A related biometric verification method is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of osteoarthritis (OA) and/or pain. In accordance with the present invention, an antagonist of c-Fms is effective in the treatment of osteoarthritis and/or pain. An antagonist of M-CSF includes, but is not limited to, an antibody that is specific for M-CSF, IL-34 or c-Fms.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to antigen-binding moieties that specifically bind to MIF and D-DT and compositions and methods of use thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for signing a message (m), implemented by processing means of a user device of a member (Mi) belonging to a group of members (G), said user device having a secret signature key (ski), said method including a step of generating (E301) a group signature (?) for the message (m), enabling said member (Mi) to prove his membership in the group (G), and a step of generating (E302) a pseudonym (nymij) identifying the member (Mi) within a domain (Dj) of a service provider (SPj), said domain including a set of terminals in communication with a server of said service provider, said signature (?) being designed such that said member (Mi) can prove, by signing the message (m), his knowledge of said secret signature key without disclosing it, said group signature (?) being designed such that the membership of the member (Mi) in the group is verifiable independently from the pseudonym (nymij), said pseudonym and said signature being a function of a portion (xi) of said secret signature k

Abstract: The invention relates to a data-processing method that includes encoding a plurality of data of n bits into code words having a predefined constant Hamming weight, characterized in that said method also includes using (4000) encryption operations or arithmetic operations on the resulting code word(s) and also in that encoding each datum includes: decomposing (100) the datum into a plurality of m bit sequences to be encoded, m strictly being less than n; encoding (300) each bit sequence into a partial code word, each having a predefined Hamming weight, such that the sum of the Hamming weights of the partial code words are equal to the Hamming weights of the code word; and concatenating (300) the partial code words such as to produce the code word corresponding to the datum. The invention also relates to a data transmission method and to an electronic circuit configured to implement said methods.

Abstract: A device and a method for managing access rights to a wireless network uses wireless connection devices advantageously based on a smart card, which enable the wireless connection to the network once connected to a terminal. These devices include devices for time and/or geographical management of access to the network and authentication device. These devices can be easily preprogrammed by the entity managing the service and then distributed to the users.

Abstract: An image processing device comprising: a recording unit configured to record a previous frame image input before a target frame image that is to be a processing target or an output frame image from the previous frame image; an alignment unit configured to align the target frame image with the previous frame image or with the output frame image from the previous frame image; a correction unit configured to perform a temporal correction process to correct a pixel value of the target frame image by use of a pixel value of the previous frame image or a pixel value of the output frame image from the previous frame image that has been aligned by the alignment unit, with reference to the recording unit; and a generation unit configured to generate an output frame image from the target frame image by use of the target frame image corrected by the correction unit.

Abstract: An x-ray diffraction imaging (XDI) system includes a plurality of x-ray sources configured to generate x-rays directed toward an object. The XDI system also includes a primary collimator positioned a distance from the plurality of x-ray sources. A plurality of nodes are defined within the primary collimator at a plurality of node distances from the plurality of x-ray sources. Each node of the plurality of nodes defines an x-ray intersection region. The XDI system further includes a supermirror assembly including a plurality of mounting rails positioned adjacent the plurality of nodes.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for encrypting a binary data item characterised in that it comprises the steps consisting of: —generating a public key and a private key, the public key being a sparse matrix comprising m rows and n columns, m being greater than the number I of bits of the binary data item, I being an integer strictly greater than 1, and the private key being a set of I indexed sets of integers between 1 and m such that for each set, the sum of the elements of the rows of the sparse matrix indexed by the elements of a set is zero, and—generating a binary sequence b comprising m bits, such that b=Mx+e+y in which o x is a random binary vector, o e is a random binary noise vector, and o y is a linear encoding of data item c. The invention also concerns a method for calculating a Hamming distance on data encrypted by the method of encryption.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for using recombinant antigen-binding regions and antibodies and functional fragments containing such antigen-binding regions that are specific for CD38, which plays an integral role in various disorders or conditions. These methods take advantage of newly discovered antibodies and surprising properties of such antibodies, such as the ability to bind CD38 of minipig origin and the ability to induce, by cross-linking, specific killing of cells that express CD38. These antibodies as well as the methods for using those antibodies can be used to treat, for example, hematological malignancies such as multiple myeloma.

Abstract: An x-ray diffraction imaging (XDI) system having a system axis includes at least one x-ray source configured to generate x-rays directed toward an object that includes at least one substance. The at least one x-ray source is further configured to irradiate at least one voxel defined within the object with x-rays arriving from a plurality of directions, each direction defined by an angle of incidence with respect to the system axis. The system also includes at least one detector configured to detect scattered x-rays after the x-rays have passed through the object. The system further includes at least one processor coupled to the at least one detector. The processor is programmed to generate a plurality of XDI profiles of the object voxel. Each XDI profile is a function of an associated angle of incidence.