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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2001
James R. Gloudemans, San Mateo, CA (US);
Richard H. Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jerry N. Gepner, Langhorn, PA (US);
Stanley K. Honey, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Walter Hsiao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Terence J. O'Brien, San Jose, CA (US);
Marvin S. White, San Carlos, CA (US);
Sportvision, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A three-dimensional model is created to represent an environment to be captured on video. A camera is fitted with pan, tilt and/or zoom sensors. An operator selects a location in the environment. The three-dimensional model is used to determine the three-dimensional coordinates of the location selected by the operator. Information from the pan, tilt and/or zoom sensors is used to transform the three-dimensional coordinates to a two-dimensional position in the video from the camera. Using the two-dimensional position of the video, a graphic is properly added to the video such that the graphic appears to be at the selected location in the environment.