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US 5,264,933 AGranted
Television displays having selected inserted indicia
AssigneePrinceton Electronic Billboard, Inc.
InventorsRoy J. Rosser, Martin Leach
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AssigneePrinceton Electronic Billboard, Inc.
InventorsRoy J. Rosser, Martin Leach
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An apparatus and method of altering video images to enable the addition of images, message, slogans or indicia in such a manner that they appear to be part of the original image as displayed. The application of the apparatus and method is particularly adapted to be used as advertising during sporting events or other events whereby an operator selects a portion of the video image display (16) such as a portion of a tennis court (12), recognizes the selected portion (17) and inserts a logo or advertising message (27) into that selected portion. The message is inserted into the selected portion of the court independent of how the scene is being panned or viewed by the television camera. The apparatus employs a pattern recognition algorithm such as the Burt Pyramid Algorithm to recognize the specific selected image portion and by means of the image processor (17, 20, 27) substitute the logo into the first image (16) to provide a display which appears as if the inserted image was actually painted on or otherwise permanently positioned on the court. Thus the inserted images are seamlessly and realistically incorporated into the original even as the original scene is moved, panned, magnified, zoomed or otherwise altered in size or perspective. The resulting composite image appears to the television viewer to be absolutely real and present at the scene.
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising the steps of:
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size of said selected portion which size is strictly a function of the TV camera, said TV camera operable at various different perspectives employed to create said display, comprising:
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size of said selected portion which size is strictly a function of the TV camera, said TV camera operable at various different perspectives employed to create said display, comprising:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display on a frame-to-frame basis and independent of the size of said selected portion on a frame-to-frame basis which size is a function of the TV camera perspective employed to create said display, comprising the steps of:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display on a frame-to-frame basis and independent of the size of said selected portion on a frame-to-frame basis, which size is a function of the TV camera perspective employed to create said display, comprising the steps of:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display on a frame-to-frame basis and independent of the size of said selected portion on a frame-to-frame basis which size is a function of the TV camera perspective employed to create said display, comprising the steps of:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia with a preselected portion of said video image display on a frame-to-frame basis and independent of the size of said selected portion on a frame-to-frame basis which size is a function of the TV camera perspective employed to create said display, comprising the steps of:
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size of said selected portion which size is strictly a function of the TV camera, said TV camera operable at various different perspectives employed to create said display, comprising:
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate video signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said video signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate video signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said video signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising the steps of:
Apparatus for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate video signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said video signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising:
A method for altering a video image display to provide a substituted display of desired indicia within a preselected portion of said video image display and independent of the size or perspective of said selected portion, said size and perspective of said selected portion varying in accordance with the perspective and range of a video camera means operable to generate video signals corresponding to an image viewed by said camera means, said video signal causing said image to be displayed by said video image display, comprising the steps of:
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