Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (20) for providing haptic effects on a haptic surface. To enable a simple but accurate determination of the position, orientation and/or pose of an object positioned on the haptic surface the proposed device comprises a haptic surface (22), a number of haptic actuators (24) provided in or close to the haptic surface, a control means (26) for controlling said haptic actuators to provide a haptic effect in their proximity on the haptic surface, a sensing means (28) for sensing the actuator current and/or actuator voltage per actuator or group of actuators, and a processing means (30) for processing the sensed actuator current signals and/or actuator voltage signals by separately determining a characteristic of said actuator current signals and/or actuator voltage signals and generating pressure indications from the determined characteristic, said pressure indications indicating the amount of pressure at the respective actuator or group of actuators.

Abstract: A portable data storage device (1) comprising means (2, 4) for searching for data stored on an other device that match with a user set profile (3) of the data storage device (1) and means (5) for storing data matching with said profile (3) in the data storage device (1). Also a technical realization on the level of self organizing content entities is provided.

Abstract: The position estimation system (220, 226, 222) for estimating a position of an object (224) in a room (200) works by an ultrasound emitter (220) emitting an ultrasound pulse (201), which is reflected at least once on a reflecting object (232), after which an ultrasound receiver (226) detects an ultrasound signal (300) comprising at least the reflection and possibly also a line of sight transmission. Either the emitter or the receiver is attached to the object. A processor estimates the position of the object (224) on the basis of the ultrasound signal (300), by a calculation dependent on properties of the ultrasound signal (300) or by matching the ultrasound signal (300) with templates for object (224) positions, obtained by measurement or by simulation of the ultrasound pulse (201) transmission in the room (200).

Abstract: A device (100) arranged for context-aware operations, comprising a light sensor (101) for registering incident light (120) originating from an external light source (111), coupled to filtering means (102) for extracting specific frequency components from the registered incident light (120) which are characteristic for a display screen upon successful extraction of the specific frequency components by the filtering means (102), and compressing means (104) for adjusting operation of the device (100) in dependence on the output of the determining means (103).