Online relay-broadcasting system

• US 20030103146A1
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Published: 06/05/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sug-Bae Kim
• Original Assignee: Sug-Bae Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Sug-Bae
• Application Number:
  US10/258,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20030103146A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21805 enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6587 Control parameters, e.g. trick play commands, viewpoint selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

The invention relates to an online relay-broadcasting system which enables consumers to enjoy viewing not only regular TV images, but also selectively viewing the images output from a camera selected out of plurality of cameras set up around a stadium by combining into three-dimensional dynamic images while an event is relay-broadcasting on the internet, so that consumers can enjoy the reality of a game by directly editing all the online images captured and out by a plurality of digital cameras set up around a stadium without the labor force and cost needed for relay-broadcastings as well as those which are relay-broadcasted by a TV broadcasting station.

Claims

1. An online relay-broadcasting system comprising:

a plurality of digital cameras set up around a stadium;

an image input unit for receiving images output from the cameras;

an intermediate server for re-setting to selectively transmit the images input from the image input unit according to requests of consumers contacting on the internet; and

a computer for enabling consumers to receive images output from a TV relay-broadcasting station and select images transmitted through the intermediate server on the internet.

3. The system, as defined in claim 1 or 2, wherein a predetermined number of the digital cameras are set up around a stadium, focusing on an identical object at a predetermined angle, and another predetermined number of the digital cameras respectively, zooming in to take images of a predetermined object.

4. The system, as defined in claim 1 or 2, wherein the intermediate server is constructed to transmit three-dimensional dynamic images showing around a stadium by varying a predetermined interval of time to sequentially re-set the images captured by a plurality of digital cameras.

5. The system, as defined in claim 1 or 2, wherein the intermediate server can individually control a plurality of digital cameras with the image input unit for relay-broadcastings.

6. The system, as defined in claim 1 or 2, wherein the digital cameras and the image input unit are inter-connected in a cable or wireless networking method.

7. The system, as defined in claim 1 or 2, wherein the consumers'"'"' computer has functions of:

selecting a desired camera out of a plurality of cameras set up around a stadium;

editing relaying images; and

selecting and viewing three-dimensional dynamic images.

2. An online relay-broadcasting system comprising:

a plurality of digital cameras set up around a stadium;

an image input unit for receiving images output from the cameras;

an intermediate server for not only re-set to selectively transmit the images input from the image input unit according to requests of consumers contacting on the internet, but also receiving and transmitting the relay-broadcasting signals input from a TV broadcasting station on the internet; and

a computer for enabling consumers to receive images output from a TV broadcasting station and select images transmitted through the intermediate server on the internet.