METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING EVENT REGISTRATION ENTRY Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G06F17/40 G11B27/28 G06T15/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method of generating an event registration entry for game events associated with a physical object present in a sporting event. The method includes a step of monitoring, within a sequence of video images, image characteristics corresponding to physical objects in a sporting event. Further, the method involved displaying on a display device a sequence of video images which includes the monitored image characteristics. A first displayed image characteristic is selected from the monitored image characteristics, which corresponds to one of the physical objects in order to denote that physical object as the selected physical object, wherein the first image characteristic is highlighted during selection. When selecting the first image characteristic, a given event list of possible game events is displayed next to the highlighted, selected first image characteristic and overlaid on the displayed sequence of video images.

EFFECT: faster automatic detection of a place where an event has occurred, which enables a user to quickly switch to the corresponding frames.

17 cl, 21 dwg