Sony Europe B.v.

Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Edward Hawke

Luke Dodd

Mathew Richards

James Sharam

Hattori Hironori

A method of distributing sound in a sporting venue, comprising: determining an event based on a position of at least one player and/or sporting projectile within the sporting venue; selecting a sound effect based on the determined event; and sending the sound effect to at least one speaker located in the sporting venue.

Device, computer program and method

A data processing method comprising obtaining information identifying a position of an object in a scene at a time during a sporting event; obtaining an image of the scene captured at the time during the sporting event; projecting the position of the object in the scene onto an image plane of the image; and outputting information based on the projection.

Data processing method and apparatus for capturing and analyzing images of sporting events

A method of storing images of a scene, including receiving an image of a scene, generating at least one image identifier of the image, which is indicative of content of the image, storing the at least one image identifier of the image in association with temporal information for that image in a first storage, determining a degree of similarity between content of the image and previous images which have been received based on a correspondence between the at least one image identifier of the image and the at least one images identifiers of the previous images in the first storage, and storing the at least one image identifier of subsequently received images in a second storage in association with temporal information corresponding to a first previous image when the determined degree of similarity between the image and the first previous image exceeds a predetermined threshold.

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Edward Hawke