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+// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
+// for linear algebra.
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2009 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
+// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
+// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef EIGEN_MISC_IMAGE_H
+#define EIGEN_MISC_IMAGE_H
+
+namespace Eigen { 
+
+namespace internal {
+
+/** \class image_retval_base
+  *
+  */
+template<typename DecompositionType>
+struct traits<image_retval_base<DecompositionType> >
+{
+  typedef typename DecompositionType::MatrixType MatrixType;
+  typedef Matrix<
+    typename MatrixType::Scalar,
+    MatrixType::RowsAtCompileTime, // the image is a subspace of the destination space, whose
+                                   // dimension is the number of rows of the original matrix
+    Dynamic,                       // we don't know at compile time the dimension of the image (the rank)
+    MatrixType::Options,
+    MatrixType::MaxRowsAtCompileTime, // the image matrix will consist of columns from the original matrix,
+    MatrixType::MaxColsAtCompileTime  // so it has the same number of rows and at most as many columns.
+  > ReturnType;
+};
+
+template<typename _DecompositionType> struct image_retval_base
+ : public ReturnByValue<image_retval_base<_DecompositionType> >
+{
+  typedef _DecompositionType DecompositionType;
+  typedef typename DecompositionType::MatrixType MatrixType;
+  typedef ReturnByValue<image_retval_base> Base;
+  typedef typename Base::Index Index;
+
+  image_retval_base(const DecompositionType& dec, const MatrixType& originalMatrix)
+    : m_dec(dec), m_rank(dec.rank()),
+      m_cols(m_rank == 0 ? 1 : m_rank),
+      m_originalMatrix(originalMatrix)
+  {}
+
+  inline Index rows() const { return m_dec.rows(); }
+  inline Index cols() const { return m_cols; }
+  inline Index rank() const { return m_rank; }
+  inline const DecompositionType& dec() const { return m_dec; }
+  inline const MatrixType& originalMatrix() const { return m_originalMatrix; }
+
+  template<typename Dest> inline void evalTo(Dest& dst) const
+  {
+    static_cast<const image_retval<DecompositionType>*>(this)->evalTo(dst);
+  }
+
+  protected:
+    const DecompositionType& m_dec;
+    Index m_rank, m_cols;
+    const MatrixType& m_originalMatrix;
+};
+
+} // end namespace internal
+
+#define EIGEN_MAKE_IMAGE_HELPERS(DecompositionType) \
+  typedef typename DecompositionType::MatrixType MatrixType; \
+  typedef typename MatrixType::Scalar Scalar; \
+  typedef typename MatrixType::RealScalar RealScalar; \
+  typedef typename MatrixType::Index Index; \
+  typedef Eigen::internal::image_retval_base<DecompositionType> Base; \
+  using Base::dec; \
+  using Base::originalMatrix; \
+  using Base::rank; \
+  using Base::rows; \
+  using Base::cols; \
+  image_retval(const DecompositionType& dec, const MatrixType& originalMatrix) \
+    : Base(dec, originalMatrix) {}
+
+} // end namespace Eigen
+
+#endif // EIGEN_MISC_IMAGE_H