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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1997
Stanley K Honey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard H Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Terence J O'Brien, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy P Heidmann, Los Altos, CA (US);
Patrick W Olsen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James R Gloudemans, San Mateo, CA (US);
Fox Sports Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for enhancing the television presentation of an object that can display the object even if the object is not visible to a camera. The system determines whether the object is visible to the camera broadcasting the event. If the object is not visible to the camera, the video image captured by the camera is edited to show the object, not show the object or enhance the video in a different manner. The object is placed in the captured video image at the position the object would be in the camera's field of view if there was no barrier between the object and the camera.