Abstract: The invention provides for a telecommunications chip card for logging into a mobile a digital cellular mobile telecommunications network (107). The telecommunications chip card comprises a chip card reader interface for communicating with a mobile telephone device, a chip card processor means, and a secure memory means (302) for storing programs for execution by the chip card processor means. The secure memory means contains a program (304). The program causes the chip card processor means to: perform (200) a first cryptographic mutual authentication between the telecommunications chip card and a terminal device (502), receive (214) a configuration message (400, 402, 404, 406, 408, 410, 524) via the chip card reader interface, store the (216) configuration message in the secure memory means, and delete (218) the program from the secure memory means.

Abstract: A card including a data transmission mechanism using annex transmission channels. A method is described for the transmission of data by a chip card at an end of its life using hidden communication channels different from standard communication channels of the card. The data are transmitted by modulating a binary signal that results from a modification of a hardware parameter of the card.

Abstract: The description particularly relates to methods for authenticating binary code stored in a smart card. The description also relates to systems and a computer program capable of implementing said methods, as well as to storage media containing such a computer program.

Abstract: A radiation detector is provided. The radiation detector includes an outer casing, at least one first detector disposed within said outer casing, the at least one first detector configured to primarily detect gamma ray radiation, at least one second detector disposed within the outer casing, the at least one second detector configured to primarily detect neutron radiation, and a computing device disposed within the outer casing and communicatively coupled to the at least one first detector and the at least one second detector. The computing device is configured to receive first data from the at least one first detector, receive second data from the at least one second detector, determine a number of neutrons and gamma rays detected based on the first and second data, and determine a detected energy spectrum based on the first and second data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for enabling the authentication or identification of a person (1) using a first electronic device (2) comprising an image-capturing unit and a data-transmission unit, the method including a step of registering said person in a verification system (3). The registration step includes the steps of: capturing, using the image-capturing unit of said electronic device, a first image (h) of at least one object (O) of any kind that is secretly selected by the person; and transmitting said first image to the verification system by means of said data transmission device of said first electronic device.

Abstract: A smart card compares an object identification parameter associated with a write command with an object identification parameter stored in the non-volatile memory of the smart card. If the comparison is positive, the data embedded in the write command is written at a at a predefined address whose value is stored in the non-volatile memory, an address corresponding to the sum of the stored predefined address and the size of the written data is calculated, and the calculated address is stored in the non-volatile memory in place of the predefined address. If the comparison is negative, the data is written at a default address, an address corresponding to the sum of the default address and the size of the written data is calculated, and the calculated address is stored in the non-volatile memory as the predefined address.

Abstract: The description pertains in particular to a method of protecting an electronic device (SCARD), when the electronic device implements a cryptographic algorithm (AES), against side channel attacks. The cryptographic algorithm (AES) operating on an array of states which forms the subject of a secure processing. The description relates also to an electronic device (SCARD), a computer program and a storage medium for the implementation of such a method.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device and the like that can generate a composite image in a desired focusing condition. In a smartphone 1, an edge detecting section 107 detects an edge as a feature from a plurality of input images taken with different focusing distances, and detects the intensity of the edge as a feature value. A depth estimating section 111 then estimates the depth of a target pixel, which is information representing which of the plurality of input images is in focus at the target pixel, by using the edge intensity detected by the edge detecting section 107. A depth map generating section 113 then generates a depth map based on the estimation results by the depth estimating section 111.

Abstract: It is an object to generate a desired composite image in which a motion area of a subject is correctly composited. A difference image between a base target and an aligned swap target is generated (S1021), and an extracted contour in the difference image is determined according to the active contour model (S1022). The inner area of the contour and the outer area of the contour are painted with different colors to be color-coded so as to generate a mask image for alpha blending (S1023). Using the mask image thus generated, the swap target that is aligned with respect to the base target is composited with the base target of the base image by alpha blending (S1024).

Abstract: A method for detecting a chemical substance includes collecting a sample of a substance of interest and mixing the sample and at least one additive within a reaction chamber. The at least one additive includes a plurality of isotopes. The method also includes producing a plurality of adduct ions of the sample. The plurality of adduct ions has a plurality of isotopes. The method further includes performing a spectrometric analysis of the plurality of adduct ions and performing sample identification using comparative spectrometric data of the isotopes of the plurality of adduct ions.

Abstract: Validation of using a finger as support of a fingerprint may include: placing the support such that it bears; capturing a captured image of the print; transforming the captured image into a resulting image by passage through a low-pass filter; locating on the resulting image an origin point, the intensity of whose pixel is representative of the maximum pressure exerted on the support; verifying that, on the resulting image, for a plurality of radii issuing from the origin point, and for each of said radii, for a plurality of points M, the intensity of the pixel of each point M of said radius is representative of a decline in the pressure exerted on the support as the distance from the origin point to the point M increases, and a decision as regards the validity of the support is taken as a function of the results of the verification step.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling access to or exit from a controlled area, implemented in a system comprising at least one database comprising: a first data set, comprising biometric data of persons linked with identifiers of means of transport or travel; and a second data set including at least one piece of data such as marital status and/or identity document and at least one piece of personal biometric data, the method being characterised by implementing steps that comprise: for each vehicle, acquiring an identifier of the means of transport or travel, and biometric data of at least one passenger in the vehicle; for each passenger for which biometric data has been acquired, determining whether said passenger is recorded in the first data set linked with the vehicle; if a passenger is not recorded in the first data set linked with the vehicle, verifying that the passenger is recorded in said set linked with another vehicle or, failing that, that said passenger is recorded in the second data

Abstract: An image synthesis apparatus for generating a composite image by synthesizing a second image with a first image, includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire first group images including the first image and a plurality of different resolution images corresponding to the first image, and second group images including the second image and a plurality of different resolution images corresponding to the second image, a frequency component calculation unit configured to calculate low-frequency components and high-frequency components from the first group images and the second group images, and an image synthesis unit configured to generate the composite image on the basis of the low-frequency components of the first group images and the high-frequency components of the second group images.

Abstract: A method of detecting a venous network in a portion of a human body, the method comprising the steps of capturing an infrared image of said human body portion in order to reveal a venous network of said human body portion; analyzing contrast in the infrared image in order to determine contrast characteristics of the infrared image; and determining whether the human body portion is real on the basis of contrast characteristics determined in the infrared image and of contrast characteristics determined from reference human body portions. A method of biometric recognition with a prior stage of detecting whether a portion of a human body is real.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for detecting a chemical substance. The methods and systems include mixing a sample of a substance of interest with an additive and then producing an adduct using an ionization source. The systems and methods further include performing a spectrometric analysis of the adduct and identifying the sample using comparative spectrometric data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a checking device that is intended to check the authenticity of a fingerprint of a finger and which includes, among other things, a capture system for capturing an image of the finger and of the fingerprint, and acquisition means for acquiring a three-dimensional model of the finger. The checking device also includes means for determining the core on the image of the fingerprint, for locating the crown of the three-dimensional model, for determining the orientation and position of the end of the finger and for determining the relative positions of the end, the crown and the core. From these elements, the checking device can decide whether the fingerprint is real or false.

Abstract: Provided is a method/system for taking, by an imaging device, one or more images of an object or a part of an object presented at a distance in front of the imaging device, the object being illuminated by a lighting system. The method/system may include: estimating a 3D model of the object as it will be at a predetermined time when taking the image by the imaging device; simulating, using the estimated 3D model, the illumination of the object as it will be at said time to obtain estimated images of the object in respectively a plurality of envisaged lighting modes of the lighting system; selecting a lighting mode of the lighting system from the estimated images; and controlling the lighting system to be in the selected lighting mode; and controlling the imaging device, at the time of the taking of the image of the object, to effect the taking.

Abstract: An image correction method includes: estimating a 3D model of an object as when an imaging device takes an image of the object; calculating the light intensity of each point of a simulated image as it would be taken by the imaging device, using the estimated 3D model of the object, a model of illumination of the object illuminated by a lighting system that illuminates the object, a model of reflection on a surface of the object, and a model of the imaging device, to obtain a simulated image of the object; and correcting the taken image by modifying the light intensity of each point on the taken image or on at least one area of interest of the taken image, according to the light intensity of the corresponding point in the simulated image or the respective light intensities of points adjacent to the corresponding point in the simulated image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method intended to validate that an element is covered with a true skin and implemented by a validation device including a light source at at least one wavelength, a sensor, an analysis module and a decision-taking module. The method may include: placing a surface of the element in front of the light source and the sensor; illuminating, by the light source, the surface of the element; capturing, by the sensor, for each wavelength, an image of the positioned element that encompasses an illuminated zone of the element directly illuminated by the light beam and a peripheral zone (“the diffusion zone of the element,” which is peripheral to the illuminated zone); analyzing the illuminated zone and the diffusion zone of the captured image; and deciding, by the decision-taking module, whether the element is covered with a true skin according to the results of the analysis.

Abstract: An imaging system is provided. The imaging system includes a rotating gantry. An x-ray source is mounted to the gantry. The system also includes a plurality of interchangeable x-ray detector modules is mounted to the gantry, opposite the x-ray source. The plurality of interchangeable detector modules includes a first detector module mounted at a first distance from the x-ray source and a second detector module mounted at a second distance from the x-ray source. The first distance is different from the second distance.