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Method and apparatus for taking visual images

  • US 6,331,872 B1
  • Filed: 12/13/1999
  • Issued: 12/18/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of taking pictures of a subject at a location on a golf course comprising,transmitting signals including locational data from the subject, receiving the signals from the subject and determining from the locational data, a direction/distance of the subject, selecting, based on the direction/distance of the subject, a camera from a plurality of cameras installed around the golf course and orienting the selected camera toward the subject, computing with said locational data a distance between the subject and a location of the selected camera, determining a degree of selected camera zooming responsive to said computed distance and zooming the selected camera to the zooming degree thereby adjusting an angle of view, focusing the selected camera responsive to said computed distance, and then taking a picture of the subject with the selected camera.

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