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Apparatus for judging the order of arrival of racers at a goal in a race and the time taken for the race, having a plurality of line sensor cameras

US5671010A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 17, 1995
Grant dateSep 23, 1997
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Expiry dateMay 17, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07C1/24
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for judging the order of arrival of racers at a goal in a race and the time taken for the race, capable of storing, in a memory unit, video signals of a plurality of line sensor cameras disposed so as to be able to pick up images of moving objects from both directions with a judging criterion line between or from such angles that moving objects do not overlap, effecting scan conversion on the stored video signals of the plurality of line sensor cameras, reading resultant video signals, and displaying video signals thus read out respectively singly or simultaneously plurally on a single video monitor.

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