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Depiction of images using inverse perspective transformation to provide 3-D effect

US5933544A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 1, 1997
Grant dateAug 3, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 1, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N23/20
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image, eg of an advertising or promotional nature, is depicted in an inverse perspective form on a playing field (10) for a sporting event. The playing field is imaged by means of a video camera (12) whose line of sight (14) corresponds to the line of sight used in transforming the image to its inverse perspective form, and the output of the camera then broadcast or diffused in a television broadcasting or diffusion service.

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