An image capture and processing system supports a multi-tier modular software, and plug-in extendable, architecture. The image capture and processing system can be realized as an image-capturing cell phone, a digital camera, a video camera, mobile computing terminal and portable data terminal (PDT), provided with suitable hardware platform, communication protocols and user interfaces. A third-party customer can write and install a software plug-in into the application layer so as to enhance or modify the behavior of the image capture and processing system without any required knowledge of the hardware platform, communication protocols and/or user interfaces.

A method is described that includes capturing a pixelated depth image of a person with a depth camera. The method also includes identifying body parts from the image. The method also includes forming a vector of distances between the body parts. The method also includes comparing the vector against a database of respective body distance vectors for a plurality of people to identify the person.

The invention relates to a supervision module for managing digital battery passports in a management system. The management system includes a plurality of manufacturer modules and a distribution module, where each manufacturer module is connected to the distribution module via a manufacturer module communication link. The supervision module includes a performance submodule that generates performance evaluations on information data of the digital battery passports stored in its manufacturer database.

The invention relates to a management system for managing digital battery passports, the management system including a plurality of manufacturer modules and a distribution module. Each manufacturer module is connected to the distribution module via a manufacturer module communication link, wherein each manufacturer module includes a creation submodule that allows a battery manufacturer to create a digital battery passport for each type of electrical energy storage physical battery. The digital battery passport includes a set of information data related to the electrical energy storage physical battery, and the set of information data includes information about the manufacturer of the battery, about the composition of the battery and about the sustainability of the battery.

The invention relates to a manufacturer module for managing digital battery passports in a management system, The manufacturer module communicates with at least one battery manufacturer on a manufacturer communication link. The manufacturer module includes a creation submodule that allows a battery manufacturer to create, via the manufacturer communication link, a digital battery passport for each type of electrical energy storage physical battery. The digital battery passport includes a set of information data related to the electrical energy storage physical battery, and the set of information data includes information about a manufacturer of the battery, about a composition of the battery and about a sustainability of the battery. The manufacturer module also includes a manufacturer database said that stores the created digital battery passport.

The invention relates to a distribution module for managing digital battery passports in a management system. The management system includes a plurality of manufacturer modules, each manufacturer module being connected to the distribution module via a manufacturer module communication link. The distribution module includes a user access submodule configured to receive a passport code sent by a user, to retrieve from the manufacturer database of one of the manufacturer modules, on the corresponding manufacturer module communication link, using the passport code, a subset of data of the digital battery passport related to the passport code that is received and to transmit the subset of data that is retrieved to the user.

A method of auxiliary data capture control includes: storing, at a data capture device, a trigger condition; controlling the sensor to obtain captured data; determining, based on the captured data, whether the trigger condition is satisfied, wherein the trigger condition includes whether the captured data exceeds the baseline value; and when the trigger condition is satisfied, controlling an auxiliary data capture sensor to obtain auxiliary captured data.