Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for imaging a page of a book or other similar document comprising: a table defining a support plane, the book being disposed on the table such that the page to image is substantially parallel to the support plane and an other page of the book is orientated at an angle ? relative to the support plane, a being between 0° and 70°; means for displacing the table parallel to the support plane along a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction and/or perpendicular to the support plane along a normal direction; a plurality of light sources, each light source producing an incident light and directing said incident light onto an inspection area of the page to image at a predetermined zenith angle ?i and at a predetermined azimuth angle ?i; means for sensing the light reflected by the page to image; at least one control unit adapted to control said displacing means, said light sources and said sensing means; wherein the light sources are fixedly connected to a ma

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for determining a bidirectional reflectance distribution function of a subject (S) comprising: a light source (LS) for producing an incident light (li) and directing said incident light (li) onto a subject (S) at a predetermined zenith angle (?i) and at a predetermined azimuth angle (?i); means for displacing said light source (LS) at any location on the periphery of a hemispherical area centered on the subject (S); means (C) for measuring the bidirectional reflectance distribution function of the subject (S) from one fixed location, said fixed location being preferably aligned with a normal direction (Z) defined by the subject (S); a control unit adapted to control said displacing means and/or said measuring means; wherein said displacing means comprises: an arc-shaped arm (12) at one end of which is fixedly connected the light source (LS), said arc-shaped arm being slideably connected to a first support (14) through sliding means, thus permitting the adjustm

Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device has the capability to determine touch locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The touch events disturb optical beams propagating across the touch sensitive surface. With multi-touch events, a single beam can be disturbed by more than one touch event. In one aspect, a non-linear transform is applied to measurements of the optical beams in order to linearize the effects of multiple touch events on a single optical beam. In another aspect, the effect of known touch events (i.e., reference touches) is modeled in advance, and then unknown touch events are determined with respect to the reference touches.

Abstract: An acoustic processing method for M acoustic receivers comprising the steps of: Determining a beamforming weight vector with M weights for the M acoustic receivers based on at least one the steering vector of at least one real acoustic source, on steering vectors of image sources of the at least one real acoustic source and on a first matrix depending on the covariance matrix of the noise and/or on at least one interfering sound source, wherein each of the image sources corresponds to one path of the acoustic signal between one of the at least one real source and one of the M acoustic receivers with at least one reflection; and linearly combining the M acoustic signals received at the M acoustic receivers on the basis of the M weights of the beamforming vector

Abstract: The present invention relates to an annotating method including the steps of capturing (100) data representing a light field with a plenoptic image capture device (4); matching (101) the captured data with a corresponding reference data; retrieving an annotation associated with an element of the reference data (102); rendering (103) a view generated from the captured data and including at least one annotation.

Abstract: An indoor localization method for estimating the location of nodes (n1, n2), at least one node (n1) being connected to at least another node (n2) by at least two different channels (ch1, ch1?), comprising the following steps: measuring a distance between the connected nodes, for each channel, building a Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) based on the measured distances, estimating the location of the nodes (n1, n2) based on the built Euclidean Distance Matrices.

Abstract: Method for measuring a distribution of a physical variable in a region, comprising the step of: measuring an average value of the physical variable along each of a plurality of lines in said region; estimating the distribution of the physical variable in said region on the basis of the plurality of average values of the physical variable along the plurality of lines.

Abstract: An optical touch-sensitive device has the capability to determine touch locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The touch events disturb optical beams propagating across the touch sensitive surface. With multi-touch events, a single beam can be disturbed by more than one touch event. In one aspect, a non-linear transform is applied to measurements of the optical beams in order to linearize the effects of multiple touch events on a single optical beam. In another aspect, the effect of known touch events (i.e., reference touches) is modeled in advance, and then unknown touch events are determined with respect to the reference touches.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for calibrating an array of receivers (ri), each receiver being configured for receiving a signal transmitted by at least one transmitter (si), and echoes of the transmitted signal as reflected by one or more reflective surfaces (w), said method comprising the following steps: sorting said echoes, by assigning each echo to a reflective surface or to a combination of reflective surfaces (w) calibrating said array of receivers (ri) based on said sorting.

Abstract: A method for determining the location of a transmitter (respectively a receiver) in a space defined by one or more reflective surfaces, including the steps of ending a signal from the transmitter (respectively from a set of transmitters); receiving by a set of receivers (respectively by a receiver) the transmitted signal and echoes of the transmitted signal reflected by the reflective surfaces; finding by a first computing module the location of the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) of the echoes; mirroring by a second computing module the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) into the space and obtained mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers); combining by a third computing module the mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers) so as to obtain location of the transmitter (respectively the receiver).

Abstract: A method for determining the location of a transmitter (respectively a receiver) in a space defined by one or more reflective surfaces, including the steps of sending a signal from the transmitter (respectively from a set of transmitters); receiving by a set of receivers (respectively by a receiver) the transmitted signal and echoes of the transmitted signal reflected by the reflective surfaces; finding by a first computing module the location of the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) of the echoes; mirroring by a second computing module the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) into the space and obtained mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers); combining by a third computing module the mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers) so as to obtain location of the transmitter (respectively the receiver).

Abstract: A device and method for estimating multipath jointly sparse channels. The method comprises receiving a number K of signal components by a number P of receiving antennas, where P?2. The method further comprises estimating the sparsity condition of the multipath jointly sparse channels. The method further comprises, if the sparsity condition is not satisfied, estimating the channels by using a non-sparse technique. The method further comprises, if the sparsity condition is satisfied, estimating the channels by using a sparse technique.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining the Walsh-Hadamard transform of N samples of a signal, comprises electing a plurality of hashing C matrices ?1, . . . ?C, computing C hashes of a particular length based at least on a hashing front end and the plurality of matrices ?1, . . . ?C, forming a bipartite graph with a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes, the variable nodes being non-zero coefficients to recover, and the check nodes being hashed samples, finding an isolated check node and recovering non-zero coefficients connected to the isolated check node by employing collision detection and support estimation of the signal, peeling from the bipartite graph the recovered non-zero coefficients, and repeating the computing step, forming step, finding step and peeling step until all the nodes in the plurality of check nodes are zero.

Abstract: In an image sensor pixels in an array of binary pixels are sampled with a first oversampling factor during a first frame interval, and then sampled with a second oversampling factor during a second frame interval, the second oversampling factor exceeding the first oversampling factor.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for sensing streaming data comprises recursively sampling an input stream of data using overlapping windowing to obtain at least one previous measurement regarding the input data stream, and employing the at least one previous measurement for obtaining a subsequent measurement.

Abstract: A method of local feature identification, comprising the steps of: retrieving data representing a lightfield (101); forming an epipolar volume (V) from the retrieved data; applying a transform to epipolar planes retrieved from said epipolar volume, so as to represent said epipolar planes in a new space (106); identifying a plurality of epipolar lines (107); identifying local features (fp) based on at least some of said epipolar lines (108).

Abstract: The invention refers to a method for analysing reflected light of an object. First a light angle distribution for a point of the object is determined. Then a plenoptic projector is controlled to illuminate the point of the object with the determined light angle distribution. Then the reflected light intensity of the point of the object is measured and the measured reflected light is analysed in dependence of the determined light angle distribution.

Abstract: An indoor localization method for estimating the location of nodes (n1, n2), at least one node (n1) being connected to at least another node (n2) by at least two different channels (ch1, ch1?), comprising the following steps: measuring a distance between the connected nodes, for each channel, building a Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) based on the measured distances, estimating the location of the nodes (n1, n2) based on the built Euclidean Distance Matrices.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for distributed sensing and centralized reconstruction of two correlated signals, modeled as the input and output of an unknown sparse filtering operation.

Abstract: A method for determining the geometry and/or the localisation of an object comprising the steps of: sending one or more signals by using one transmitter; receiving by one or more receivers the transmitted signals and the echoes of the transmitted signals as reflected by one or more reflective surfaces building by a computing module a first Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) comprising the mutual positions of the receivers; adding to the EDM matrix a new row and a new column, the new row and a new column comprising time of arrivals of said echoes and computing its rank or distance to an EDM matrix determining the geometry and/or the position of the object based on said rank or distance.