Kenneth J Aagaard

US Patent:

20030210329, Nov 13, 2003

Filed:

Nov 8, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/008077

Inventors:

Kenneth Aagaard - Guttenberg NJ, US
Larry Barbatsoulis - Long Beach NY, US
Frank Trizano - Scarsdale NY, US
Craig Farrell - Little Rock AR, US

International Classification:

H04N007/18

US Classification:

348/159000, 382/154000

Abstract:

A multiple camera video system and methods for operating such a system. The system may include a plurality of cameras located around a stadium, athletic playing field or other location. The cameras are remotely controlled in a master-slave configuration. A camera operator at a master pan head selects one of the plurality of cameras as the current master camera and utilizes the master pan head to adjust the telemetry and zoom of the master camera to follow the target object. The telemetry and zoom parameters of the master camera are then used to calculate corresponding telemetry, zoom and/or other parameters for each of the plurality of slave cameras. Video captured by each of the cameras is stored for the production of replay video feeds or for archiving. The replays may be capable of “spinning” through the video feeds of adjacent cameras in order for the viewer to get the sensation of revolving around the target object. The multiple camera video system also includes methods for calibrating the system.

US Patent:

20110211096, Sep 1, 2011

Filed:

Mar 7, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/042040

Inventors:

Kenneth Joseph Aagaard - Guttenberg NJ, US
Larry Barbatsoulis - Long Beach NY, US
Frank Trizano - Scarsdale NY, US
Craig Matthew Farrell - Little Rock AR, US

International Classification:

H04N 5/225

US Classification:

348262, 348E05024

Abstract:

A multiple camera video system and methods for operating such a system. The system may include a plurality of cameras located around a stadium, athletic playing field or other location. The cameras are remotely controlled in a master-slave configuration. A camera operator at a master pan head selects one of the plurality of cameras as the current master camera and utilizes the master pan head to adjust the telemetry and zoom of the master camera to follow the target object. The telemetry and zoom parameters of the master camera are then used to calculate corresponding telemetry, zoom and/or other parameters for each of the plurality of slave cameras. Video captured by each of the cameras is stored for the production of replay video feeds or for archiving. The replays may be capable of “spinning” through the video feeds of adjacent cameras in order for the viewer to get the sensation of revolving around the target object. The multiple camera video system also includes methods for calibrating the system.

US Patent:

7193645, Mar 20, 2007

Filed:

Jul 27, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/626568

Inventors:

Kenneth John Aagaard - Guttenberg NJ, US
Larry Barbatsoulis - Long Beach NY, US
Sean Joseph McManus - New Canaan CT, US
Craig Matthew Farrell - Little Rock AR, US

Assignee:

PVI Virtual Media Services, LLC - New York NY

International Classification:

H04N 5/232
H04N 7/18

US Classification:

3482113, 348157, 348169

Abstract:

A video imaging system includes a master video camera for producing video images of a moving object of interest, a plurality of additional video cameras each positioned at a different location for producing additional video images of the object of interest from different spatial perspectives, and a control system for controlling the additional video cameras to track the object of interest imaged by the master video camera. The system generates video images using a method comprising the steps of producing a master video image of a moving object of interest, producing additional video images of the object of interest from different spatial perspectives, and controlling size of the object of interest in the additional video images in response to the size of the object of interest in the master video image. The invention further encompasses a method of presenting a video image comprising the steps of producing a plurality of video images of an object of interest from a plurality of spatial perspectives, displaying one of said video images for a period of time, selecting a frame in the displayed video image, and switching the displayed video image among a plurality of corresponding frames of said plurality of video images to display the object of interest from multiple spatial perspectives, giving the illusion of a single camera moving around the frozen object(s). This invention further encompasses the recording of point sound source by placing microphones at the cameras such that the microphones receive sound waves from the direction of the field of view of the cameras, and processing audio signals produced by these microphones to produce an audio output signal representative of sound being produced at a particular location in the area occupied by an event being recorded.

US Patent:

20140132741, May 15, 2014

Filed:

Jan 16, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/157087

Inventors:

Kenneth Joseph Aagaard - Guttenberg NJ, US
Larry Barbatsoulis - Long Beach NY, US
Frank Trizano - Scarsdale NY, US
Craig Matthew Farrell - Little Rock AR, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/18
H04N 13/02
H04N 17/00

US Classification:

348 48, 348159, 901 47

Abstract:

A multiple camera video system and methods for operating such a system. The system may include a plurality of cameras located around a stadium, athletic playing field or other location. The cameras are remotely controlled in a master-slave configuration. A camera operator at a master pan head selects one of the plurality of cameras as the current master camera and utilizes the master pan head to adjust the telemetry and zoom of the master camera to follow the target object. The telemetry and zoom parameters of the master camera are then used to calculate corresponding telemetry, zoom and/or other parameters for each of the plurality of slave cameras. Video captured by each of the cameras is stored for the production of replay video feeds or for archiving. The replays may be capable of “spinning” through the video feeds of adjacent cameras in order for the viewer to get the sensation of revolving around the target object. The multiple camera video system also includes methods for calibrating the system.