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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Key dates
| Filing date | May 17, 1995 |
| Grant date | Sep 23, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 17, 2015 |
Classification
- 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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