Abstract: A method for determining the position of furnishing elements, wherein a digital scene image consisting of pixels, in particular with a known pixel spacing or a known pixel dimension, and containing a digital representation of a first furnishing element, is generated using a camera from a scene captured by it, in which at least one first furnishing element is present and wherein the at least one first furnishing element image is automatically recognized in the scene image and a scale for the scene image is determined by determining the image points associated with the first furnishing element image in the scene image and knowing the actual dimensions of the first furnishing element.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for communicating data representing spatially localized information to a mobile terminal (1) in relation to the location of said mobile terminal (1) within a sales area equipped with a distributed series of electronic labels, each electronic label (3) being identified by a unique label identifier, comprising the steps in which: the mobile terminal (1) sets up a communication via radio-frequency with a radio-frequency peripheral of an electronic label (3), the radio-frequency peripheral (36) communicates a label identifier of said electronic label (3) to said mobile terminal (1), the mobile terminal (1) communicates said label identifier to a central server (2), the central server (2) determines the location of said mobile terminal (1) from the label identifier, the central server (2) communicates data to the mobile terminal (1) which represent spatially localized information associated with the location of said mobile terminal (1).

Abstract: A method and a machine for automatically handling a flat rectangular sheet, located in a bin, which ultimately grasps two adjacent corners, allowing the rest of the sheet to hang freely, making the sheets ready to be dried, pressed and folded. First, the sheet is grasped in an arbitrary location and dragged until the farthest corner is found. Second, this corner is grasped by a gripper, which is attached to a rail, allowing the sheet to be dragged and shaken until the diagonal corner is located. Third, this diagonal corner is grasped by a second gripper. Fourth, the two remaining corners are separated through the use of a separation guide. Fifth, one of these remaining corners is grasped by a third gripper. Sixth, the first gripper is released. Finally, the sheet is moved, through the use of the second and third gripper attached to independent rails which finally become parallel, to a location where the sheet can hang freely from the two grippers attached to adjacent corners.