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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Stanley K Honey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Richard H Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Blyth Hill, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Andrew G Setos, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Jerry Neil Gepner, Langhorn, PA (US);
Timothy Paul Heidmann, Los Altos, CA (US);
Patrick Wade Olsen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fred Judson Heinzmann, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alan C Phillips, Los Altos, CA (US);
Harold Guthart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alan Alexander Burns, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Charles Lawrence Rino, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip Calvin Evans, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Fox Sports Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for enhancing the television presentation of an object at a sporting event includes one or more sensors which are used to determine the location of the object. Based on the location of the object and the field of view of a broadcast camera, a processor determines the position of the object in a video frame of the broadcast camera. Once knowing where the object is positioned within the video frame, the television signal can be edited or augmented to enhance the presentation of the object.