Abstract: The present invention relates to a securized, multifunction, acquisition and processing terminal more particularly usable in the banking sector, in connection with games and/or in the electronic management of documents, characterized in that it comprises:a mother board (13), having an interfacing bus with one or more standardized connectors to which can be connectedstandard input/output modules,at least one specific input/output module permitting the performance of specific functions incorporating at least one dedicated circuit, said module as its main function the supplying of the mother board with preorganized informations, in real time, concerning the specific functions and able to leave to said mother board any developed software processing of said informations.

Abstract: An economic television system used in a digital or analog network (24) incorporating at least one user identification device, at least monodirectional or bidirectional connector to data systems and at least one image, sound and data decompression and/or compression element. This system also comprises at least one instantaneous acquisition means. Application to the fields of interactive multitransactions, remote monitoring, simultaneous transaction or other communications uses.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scanner of any type of document having at least one processing device making it possible to integrally control the scanner with its associated sensors and in particular to perform in real time the individual or collective gamma correction, as well as any specific digital processing of the image during acquisition and constituted by a plurality of points known as pixels, whereby the digital processing can have several coefficients and is consequently nonlinear. The invention also relates to the implementation of said scanner.

Abstract: Device for testing the imperviousness of a flexible membrane (8) used for communications between the outside world and a volume (2) closed by a wall (1). The membrane is seal-connected to a movable box (13), the contents of which may be evacuated. Evolution of the pressure or the concentration of a gas derived from the volume (2) in the box (13) makes it possible to measure any leaks through the membrane (8).