Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and/or decoding digital images or video streams, wherein the encoding apparatus includes a processor configured for reading a portion of the image (f), computing difference values between pixel values of the image, quantizing such pixel difference values for obtaining a quantized weight map (W), computing an edge map (f′) composed by elements (f′i) indicating whether a corresponding pixel of the portion of the image is an edge or not on the basis of the quantized weight map, determining a reconstructed weight map (W′) on the basis of the edge map (f′), determining a graph transform matrix (U) on the basis of the reconstructed weight map (W′), computing transform coefficients (f̂) on the basis of the graph transform matrix (U) and said portion of the image (f), transmitting the computed transform coefficients (f̂) and the edge map (f′).
Abstract:
A method and a user equipment (105) includes a communication device adapted to attempt to access a mobile telecommunications network (107) and to receive from the network (107) information about the presence of access restrictions to the network (107); the equipment (105) also includes an access management module (106) configured for determining, in the presence of access restrictions to the network (107), a wait time (Tbarring) that must elapse, at the least, between successive verifications of the possibility of accessing the network (107), wherein the wait time (Tbarring) is determined at least on the basis of the result of at least one previous attempt to access the network (107) by the user equipment (105).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for image segmentation, which comprises a pre-segmentation phase (P1), wherein a set of points of said image is selected, a morphological expansion phase (P3), wherein the set of points selected during the pre-segmentation phase (P1) is expanded by taking into account the spatial distribution of the points of the selected set in the image, a graph generation phase (SP41), wherein a graph (GR) is generated on the basis of the image and the selected set of points, a graph partitioning phase (SP42), wherein a set of nodes of the graph (GR) is selected on the basis of the characteristics of said graph (GR) and the points corresponding to the selected nodes are added to the selected set of points.
Abstract:
A method is described for managing the supply of electric energy to a community of users (UP1, UP2,... UPN), said community having available at least one system for producing electric energy from a local source (100) and at least one system for supplying electric energy managed by an external distributor (110), comprising the steps of: determining a supply, to each user of said community of users (UP1, UP2,... UPN), of a combination of electric energy coming from said at least one system for producing energy from a local source (100) and from said at least one system for supplying energy managed by an external distributor (110), wherein said combination of electric energy can be determined specifically for each user; adjusting, for each user of said community of users (UP1, UP2,... UPN), the supply of the fraction of electric energy coming from said local source (100), as a function of the electric energy coming from said local source (100) to be distributed to the other users of said community of users (UP1, UP2,... UPN), so as to give priority to taking electric energy directly from said system for producing energy from a local source (100) over said at least one system for supplying electric energy managed by an external distributor (110). A device and a system are also described for managing the supply of electric energy to a user belonging to said community of users (UP1, UP2,... UPN).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for generating a variable-band modulated signal (x'); the modulating digital signal (Χ') of said modulated signal (x') comprises at least one component (C, S, P); the digital information (R) about said variable band is repeatedly or periodically superimposed on said at least one component (C, S, P) or on said modulating signal (Χ'). While processing the received modulated signal (x"), the modulated digital signal (X") is extracted, the superimposed digital information (R) is obtained, and said extracted digital information (R) is used to determine the band of said modulated signal (x") and to complete the demodulation and decoding of said modulated signal (x").
Abstract:
A method for ensuring continuity of service of a personal navigation device in the event of insufficient reception of GNSS satellite signals, wherein the user provides the personal navigation device with first data relating to the current position of the device through data input, and wherein the personal navigation device, in order to calculate its own position, uses the first data entered by the user and second data coming from localization tools associated with the portable navigation device and not using GNSS satellite signals.
Abstract:
A cooperative localization process for determining the absolute position of an apparatus to be localized includes a plurality of cooperator apparata able to cooperate, through the exchange of messages and data, in the localization of the apparatus to be localized. The cooperator apparata are equipped with at least one direct, apparatus-to-apparatus radio transmission and reception system for messages and data, and components for estimating the distance between apparata of the set of cooperator apparata. The cooperative localization apparata able to implement this process are also described.
Abstract:
A method for localizing the position of a wireless device (7) in an environment (2) includes a wireless network (1) having at least one access point (3), wherein the method includes the step of receiving, by the wireless device (7), a radio frequency signal (10) which is transmitted by the at least one access point (3) and which comprises basic information for connecting to the at least one access point (3), wherein the radio frequency signal (10) includes geographic information (20) about the geographic position of at least one electronic radio frequency device (5) located in the environment (2) and not connected to the wireless network (1).
Abstract:
A method for ensuring continuity of service of a personal navigation device in the event of insufficient reception of GNSS satellite signals, wherein the user provides the personal navigation device with first data relating to the current position of the device through data input, and wherein the personal navigation device, in order to calculate its own position, uses the first data entered by the user and second data coming from localization tools associated with the portable navigation device and not using GNSS satellite signals.
Abstract:
A method is described for re-determining, in a television apparatus, a program table including associations between alphanumeric labels and radio-television programs, each one of the alphanumeric labels indicating a string of characters that must be selected by the user in order to activate the reproduction of one of the radio-television programs associated therewith, the method including the steps of biunivocally associating with each radio-television program in the table an alphanumeric label comprising a numeric part; allowing at least a first list and a second list to be simultaneously displayed on a screen, both including identification data of the radio-television programs obtained from the program table, the radio-television programs being sorted in the lists according to sorting criteria; selecting a first program from the first list of programs sorted according to a first sorting criterion, the first program being associated with a first alphanumeric label; selecting a second program from the second list of programs sorted according to a second sorting criterion, the second program being associated with a second alphanumeric label; and modifying the value of the first alphanumeric label of the first program with an alphanumeric label value comprised in the range delimited by the value of the second alphanumeric label, extreme included, and by the value of the alphanumeric label, extreme excluded, which immediately precedes the second alphanumeric label in the second list.