| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to automated photo capture and retrieval system for sporting events and the like. The present invention provides an 5 automated photo capture and retrieval system for automatically capturing and indexing a still or a moving image of at least one individual or group of individuals within an event, said at least one individual or group of individuals being uniquely identifiable. The system comprising a tracking device adapted to be worn by an individual traveling along a route for the purposes of automatic 10 identification and tracking; a detector for automatically detecting the tracking device of said individuals travelling along the route of the event and when the tracking device is detected a capture signal is sent to one or more cameras distributed throughout the event which are adapted to automatically capture photo and/or video images of one or more individuals in the field of view of the 15 camera; a means of associating and labelling the captured image with the detected identity of said at least one individual or group of individuals; a communications network for transmitting the labelled images to a computer; a means for automatically editing each image and saving the edited image in an image database; and a means of advising at least one individual or group of 20 individuals that a still or moving image of the at least one individual or group of individuals has been captured. Figure 1 to accompany the abstract. rn (1 |
