This paper presents different methods of integrating solutions for Video Mediated Communication (VMC) into the home environment considering both architectural and technical aspects. The context is entitled comHOME, a concept dwelling of the future designed and built as a full-scale model in collaboration with a telecom operator. The principal problem investigated is the various aspects of priva...

In this paper, we present TNT (Touch ‘n’ Tangibles) a new combination of several existing hardware technologies, which are integrated into an LC-display. TNT enables users to interact using finger touch and tangible user interfaces at the same time on an active flat panel screen, while maintaining precise identification of all interactive objects and fingers. TNT can accurately distinguish betw...

A novel method that can be used to evaluate mura grade on Flat Panel Displays (FPD) has been developed. This method is capable of evaluating the edge gradients of the mura. This is accomplished by converting the mura image into a visual sensitivity image using a contrast sensitivity function filter. It was determined that the sum of the visual sensitivity values of the mura regions correlated s...

With decreasing prices for display technologies and bendable displays becoming commercially available, novel forms of public displays in arbitrary shapes emerge. However, different shapes impact on how users behave in the vicinity of such displays and how they interact with them. With our research we take a first step towards exploring these novel displays. We present findings from an initial s...

Citation: Marsullo M, Mian A, Ensinas AV, Manente G, Lazzaretto A and Marechal F (2015) Dynamic modeling of the microalgae cultivation phase for energy production in open raceway ponds and flat panel photobioreactors. Front. Energy Res. 3:41. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2015.00041 Dynamic modeling of the microalgae cultivation phase for energy production in open raceway ponds and flat panel photobioreac...

In order to face the various needs of users, user-driven segmentation methods are expected to provide more relevant results than fully automatic approaches. Within Mathematical Morphology, several user-driven approaches have been proposed, mostly relying on the watershed transform. Nevertheless, Soille (IEEE TPAMI, 2008) has recently suggested another solution by gathering puzzle pieces compute...

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50þ . The human capital framework suggests that retirement may cause an increase in cognitive de...

One recently reported approach to flat panel autostereoscopic 3D displays under investigation at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. (SLE) uses a high precision patterned optical half wave retarder combined with a re-configurable output polariser to “develop” a parallax barrier structure attached to an LCD display panel. Such a barrier is invisible without the polariser and thus a 2D/3D configura...

Digital radiography is earning its place in the NDT market, as specialists realize this technology surpasses Film and Film Replacement. Portable digital Radiography provides many benefits to users. Fast images upon request for immediate analysis mean there is no compromise on image quality and no repositioning. Vidisco flat panel systems enable the reduction of working time and costs while enla...

Current consumer-level priced and state-of-the-art scanrate converters enable a spatio-temporal decoupling of the received video and the displayed video. This paper presents the results of a subjective assessment indicating the preferred CRT-display format.