Interactive sporting-event monitoring system
First Claim
1. An interactive sporting event monitoring system for facilitating monitoring of a live sporting event wherein spectators at the sporting event can identify one or more contestants by contestant identifiers, each of a plurality of the one or more contestants having a radio transmitter on a distinct transmitting frequency for transmitting audio information to a data receiving station, the data receiving station comprising a plurality of radio receivers wherein each radio receiver is tuned to a corresponding contestant'"'"'s radio transmitter, wherein each radio receiver'"'"'s audio output is digitized and digitally tagged with the corresponding contestant identifier, the interactive sporting event monitoring system comprising:
- tuning means for selecting a television channel, the television channel comprising one or more channels of sporting-event audio information, wherein each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information is encoded with a corresponding channel identifier distinguishing that channel from other channels;
detecting means for detecting the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information on the television channel, the detecting means being for associating each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information with its corresponding channel identifier, each channel identifier including a corresponding contestant identifier and each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information including audio information of the contestant identified by the corresponding contestant identifier;
a user input adapted to accept a user-specified channel identifier from a user, the user-specified channel identifier specifying a channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor; and
monitoring means for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user.
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Abstract
An interactive sporting event monitoring system includes a determiner for determining whether video blanking interval data is present in a selected television channel, and a decoder for decoding video blanking interval data from the selected television channel. The video blanking interval data from the selected television channel comprises a number of channels of sporting-event audio information, and the decoder associates each of the plurality of channels of sporting-event audio information with a corresponding channel identifier. Each channel identifier distinguishes a corresponding channel of sporting-event audio information from other channels of sporting-event audio information. The interactive sporting event monitoring system further includes a user input for accepting a user-specified channel identifier from a user, and a monitor for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user. The video blanking interval data may further include telemetry data.
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36 Claims
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1. An interactive sporting event monitoring system for facilitating monitoring of a live sporting event wherein spectators at the sporting event can identify one or more contestants by contestant identifiers, each of a plurality of the one or more contestants having a radio transmitter on a distinct transmitting frequency for transmitting audio information to a data receiving station, the data receiving station comprising a plurality of radio receivers wherein each radio receiver is tuned to a corresponding contestant'"'"'s radio transmitter, wherein each radio receiver'"'"'s audio output is digitized and digitally tagged with the corresponding contestant identifier, the interactive sporting event monitoring system comprising:
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tuning means for selecting a television channel, the television channel comprising one or more channels of sporting-event audio information, wherein each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information is encoded with a corresponding channel identifier distinguishing that channel from other channels;
detecting means for detecting the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information on the television channel, the detecting means being for associating each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information with its corresponding channel identifier, each channel identifier including a corresponding contestant identifier and each of the one or more channels of sporting-event audio information including audio information of the contestant identified by the corresponding contestant identifier;
a user input adapted to accept a user-specified channel identifier from a user, the user-specified channel identifier specifying a channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor; and
monitoring means for placing the channel of sporting-event audio information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 36)
the television channel selected by the tuning means comprises a first television channel; and
the tuning means comprises means for simultaneously selecting a second television channel, the second television channel comprising a standard commercial video and audio broadcast of the sporting event.
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12. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claim 1, wherein the user input is a remote control.
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13. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claim 1, wherein the display means visually displays channel identifiers that have had transmission activity.
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14. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claims 1, wherein the monitoring means is adapted to display information to allow the user to select among audio and telemetry modes.
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15. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claim 1, wherein
the television channel comprises a video blanking interval; - and
the video blanking interval comprises at least one of the one or more channels of sporting event audio information.
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36. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claim 1 or 16, wherein the interactive sporting event monitoring system is adapted to allow regular broadcast video and audio programming to be viewed in conjunction with over-laid or picture-in-picture graphics and over-laid audio from the real-time sporting event contestant audio and telemetry data streams.
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16. An interactive sporting event monitoring system for facilitating monitoring of a sporting event wherein spectators at the sporting event can identify contestants by contestant identifiers, the interactive sporting event monitoring system comprising:
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tuning means for selecting a television channel, the television channel comprising a plurality of channels of telemetry information, wherein each of the plurality of channels of telemetry information is encoded with a corresponding channel identifier distinguishing that channel from other channels;
detecting means for detecting the plurality of channels of telemetry information on the television channel, the detecting means being adapted to associate each of the plurality of channels of telemetry information with its corresponding channel identifier, each channel identifier including a corresponding contestant identifier and each of the plurality of channels of telemetry information including telemetry information of the contestant identified by the corresponding contestant identifier;
a user input adapted to accept a user-specified channel identifier from a user, the user-specified channel identifier specifying a channel of telemetry information that the user desires to monitor; and
monitoring means for placing the channel of telemetry information that the user desires to monitor in a format to facilitate monitoring thereof by a user. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
the television channel comprises a video blanking interval; - and
the video blanking interval comprises at least one of the plurality channels of telemetry information.
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35. The interactive sporting event monitoring system as recited in claim 16, wherein the monitoring means comprises means for constructing a virtual reality sporting-event environment comprising virtual contestants, wherein movement of the virtual contestants are based on telemetry data streams transmitted from the live sporting event and wherein the user can enter the virtual reality sporting-event environment and participate in the virtual sporting event.
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