Abstract: The present invention relates to the domain of control devices for virtual games, and more specifically to a control device to control the displacement of a virtual player and of a virtual ball in the scope of a football video game. According to the invention, the control device is in the form of a ball connected to a pedestal. This ball is equipped with accelerometers able to detect a displacement force on the ball as a result of a strike exerted on said ball, pressure sensors able to detect a pressure force exerted on the surface of the ball and a processing module. The processor module generates using information from the accelerometers and pressure sensors control signals to control the displacement of the virtual ball in the video game and control signals to control the displacement of the virtual player in the video game.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for selection of a first object in a first virtual environment, the first object being represented in the first environment with a size of value less than a threshold value. In order to make the selection of the first object more convivial, the method comprises steps for: estimating a direction associated with a pointing gesture of a user, determining a second object according to said estimated direction, said second object having a size of value greater than said threshold value, and selecting of said first object according to said second determined object. The invention also relates to a multimedia terminal adapted for the implementation of the method for selection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the domain of video equipment. It concerns more specifically a transmission device able to transmit packets, said device comprising the means to extract image ticks from a synchronisation signal, the means to initialise an image counter from said image ticks, the means to initialise a CPT— PCR counter every “m” passage through zero of the image counter, CPT_PCR producing counting ramps CSE_PCR with a range M, the means to sample the counting ramps CSE_PCR every Tech period, where Tech is from a time base synchronised on all the stations of said network, and the means to transmit packets comprising a PCRe sample of the CSE_PCR counting ramp. According to the invention, it also comprises the means to insert in the packet:—an Num index identifying the CSE_PCR counting ramp from which the PCRe sample is realised, and—a time label Datejnit indicating a CSE_PCR counting ramp timestamp passage through a reference value PCR_REF comprised between 0 and M-1.

Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a method of tracking an object in a sequence of images, each image comprising pixels with each of which is associated at least one value in a determined representation space, termed the colour space. This method comprises the following steps: segmenting, in the spatial domain, the object in an image of the sequence, termed the reference image, by estimation of its contour; and tracking the contour of the object in the other images of the sequence on the basis of the values associated, in the color space, with the pixels of the object segmented in the reference image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a voice recognition device.