Abstract: A cooker hotplate control system, to heat to and maintain a foodstuff at a preset temperature the system comprising an electric hotplate; a power input to provide electricity to heat the hot plate and a controller to govern said power input; a temperature sensor to determine the temperature of the hotplate; an infrared sensor spatially separated from and to detect infrared radiation emitted by a foodstuff or a vessel containing a foodstuff on the hotplate; a first processor to determine the temperature of a foodstuff or a vessel from the detected infrared radiation and a first data storage means to store said data; a second processor, the second processor calculating the first and second time derivatives of the temperature data; a first fuzzy logic controller receiving as input the first and second time-derivative data from the second processor and producing an output to the controller, said output governing the amount of power supplied to the hotplate, the first fuzzy logic controller being active to bring a

Abstract: A system for generating at least one virtual object corresponding to at least one real object. The system is arranged to update the virtual object responsive to changes in state of the physical object, and the system is arranged to update the physical object responsive to changes in the state of the virtual object.

Abstract: A cooker hotplate control system, to heat to and maintain a foodstuff at a preset temperature the system comprising an electric hotplate; a power input to provide electricity to heat the hot plate and a controller to govern said power input; a temperature sensor to determine the temperature of the hotplate; an infrared sensor spatially separated from and to detect infrared radiation emitted by a foodstuff or a vessel containing a foodstuff on the hotplate; a first processor to determine the temperature of a foodstuff or a vessel from the detected infrared radiation and a first data storage means to store said data; a second processor, the second processor calculating the first and second time derivatives of the temperature data; a first fuzzy logic controller receiving as input the first and second time-derivative data from the second processor and producing an output to the controller, said output governing the amount of power supplied to the hotplate, the first fuzzy logic controller being active to bring a

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining behaviour of a plurality of candidate objects in a multi-candidate object scene. The method comprises the steps of frame-by-frame, extracting behaviour features from video data associated with a scene, providing the behaviour features to an input of a recognition module comprising an interval Type 2 Fuzzy Logic (IT2FLS) based recognition model and classifying candidate object behaviour for a plurality of candidate objects in a current frame by selecting a candidate behaviour model having a highest output degree for each candidate object.