Abstract:
A method is described for allowing missions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), in particular in non-segregated air space, which comprises the steps of: prearranging a flight plan by an operator of an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the following steps are carried out: encrypting said flight plan, by said management and control body, with a private key of said management and control body, so as to obtain an encrypted flight plan; encoding said encrypted flight plan with a public key of the unmanned aerial vehicle for which said flight plan is intended, so as to obtain an encrypted and encoded flight plan.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images, wherein said encoding apparatus (1100) comprises processing means (1110) configured for determining weights of a graph related to an image by minimizing a cost function, transforming said weights through a graph Fourier transform, quantizing the transformed weights, computing transformed coefficients through a graph Fourier transform of a graph having said the transformed weights as weights, de-quantizing the quantized transformed weights, computing a reconstructed image through an inverse graph Fourier transform on the basis of the de-quantized transformed weights, computing a distortion cost on the basis of the reconstructed image and the original image, generating a final encoded image on the basis of said distortion cost.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for superimposing images on three- dimensional content, wherein a video stream is received which comprises the three- dimensional content and a depth map for superimposing images on the three- dimensional content. Once the video stream has been received, images are superimposed on the three-dimensional content in a position in depth dependent on the superimposition depth map (DM). The superimposition depth map contains information about the depth of the three-dimensional content and is inserted as an image contained in a frame (C) of the video stream. The depth map has a smaller number of pixels than that of a two-dimensional image associated with the three-dimensional content. The invention also relates to devices enabling the implementation of said methods.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system and a method for localizing an object of interest in a monitored space. The system comprises a plurality of capacitive sensors (2) for sensing changes in the status of a space, adapted to electrically interact in a contactless way with a ground surface so as to provide a capacitance varying on the basis of such changes, and adapted to detect at least a time evolution of said capacitance and to produce a capacitance- depending signal, a filtering unit (25) configured for reducing the noise level in said time evolution of such capacitance by filtering the capacitance-depending signal provided by the capacitive sensors (2), so that corresponding filtered signals are produced, and a central device in signal communication with said capacitive sensors (2). The central device is configured for acquiring the filtered signals of each capacitive sensor (2), and for determining the position of the object of interest inside said space by inferring at least a distance of said object on the basis of the filtered signals acquired from at least one of the sensors (2) detecting said object, and by combining said at least a distance with positional data defining the positions of said plurality of capacitive sensors (2) in the monitored space.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images or video streams, wherein the encoding apparatus (1100) comprises processing means (1110) configured for reading at least a portion of said image, segmenting the portion of said image in order to obtain groups of pixels identified by borders information and containing at least two pixels having one or more homogeneous characteristics, computing, for each group of pixels, a weight map on the basis of the borders information associated to said group of pixels (P i ), a graph transform matrix on the basis of said weight map, and transform coefficients on the basis of said graph transform matrix (U) and of the pixels contained in said group of pixels.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for displaying a video stream according to a format defined by a user, wherein a graphic element is superimposed on the displayed video stream, and wherein the dimensions and/or position of the graphic element are modified as a function of commands received from the user, so as to define a screen area in which a certain portion of the frames of the video stream is displayed. The video stream is then displayed in a format wherein, for each frame, the frame portion defined by the graphic element is displayed with altered dimensions and/or position on the screen.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a receiver and a method for automatically programming a receiver adapted to receive radio-television signals belonging to a plurality of radio- television networks in at least two different formats, the method comprising the steps of: storing into a first table (200) a first plurality of programs of said plurality of radio- television networks receivable by said receiver in a first signal format, associable with a first sorting criterion (95) of said first programs; storing into a second table (300) a second plurality of programs of said plurality of radio-television networks receivable by said receiver in a second signal format, associable with a second sorting criterion (100) of said second programs, including a step of storing into a third table (400) programs stored in said first (200) and second (300) tables based on existing matches between said first (95) and said second (100) sorting criteria.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a mobile communication and localization device (1) cooperating with a plurality of mobile network devices (10-80) and comprising: a processing unit (2); a data structure containing a plurality of entries, each entry containing information about a corresponding mobile network device (10-80) and a corresponding time stamp; a unit (4) for sending data packets at respective transmission instants, each data packet containing position data indicating the position of corresponding mobile network devices (10-80); a unit (4) for receiving data packets sent by sender mobile devices (10-80) belonging to the plurality of mobile network devices (10-80); and a unit (190-310) for determining the relative position of corresponding mobile network devices (10-80) based on position data contained in the data packets.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images or video streams, wherein the encoding apparatus (11) comprises processing means (1100) configured for reading at least a portion of an image (f), determining a rotation angle (θ) on the basis of said portion of said image (f), determining rotated transform matrix (V ') which is the result of a rotation of at least one basis vector of a Discrete Cosine Transform matrix (V) by said rotation angle (θ), computing transformed coefficients (f^) on the basis of the pixel values contained in said portion of the image (f) and said rotated transform information (V'), outputting the transformed coefficients (f^) to said destination (1110).