Olympic Exhibition Tour

New Technologies

• Athletics• Rowing• Swimming• Broadcast technologies• Scoreboards with Chinese

Photofinish SCAN’O’STAR

Lausanne (July 05)

Judgement Screen

BIB Transponders

– Weight: < 9g– Detection height: 2m– Bib transponder

inside pocket– Pocket with sticking

backside– Stick on back of the

Bib number

Marathon

• Traditionally 10 timing points, wired (every 5 km, 1/2 marathon and finish)

• Additional 26 timing points for NBC (every mile) wireless• Deeper analysis of athletes performances on a per mile

basis, with time and average speed• Raises presentation of Olympic Marathon to an

unprecedent level• Use of GPRS technology – Delay timing equipment to

server: 1.1s

• Partnership with China Mobile

Marathon

Positioning Rowing

• Information is used for several applications:– TV graphics (live and virtual animation)– race live tracking on PDAs and Internet– automatic intermediate timing

• Advantages of the system– data is gained “nearly” automatically– all data is live– same shape and size as the old

number– no difference with distribution and

collecting

High improvement of the presentation of Rowing sport in all respects

ROWING

Positioning Rowing

• Intensive tests and use throughout 2007 during– Rowing world cups in Linz (AUT), Amsterdam (NED) and Luzern (SUI)– Olympic test event in Beijing (CHN) – Rowing World championships in Munich (GER)– Rowing European championships in Poznan (POL)

Starting Block

320

>90°

450

30°

>90°

Starting Block

High Speed Video (HSV)

• Real time view of all cameras during recording

• Possibility to judge an image during recording

• Judgment : – view of 4 camera or one in full screen– easy image selection at different speed– zoom window– gamma, brightness and colour correction

• Backup functions (backup are made on removable hard disk).

HSV

• 100 images/s – 1 Gb data transfer rate

Virtual TV Services• Virtual Graphics

Athletics, Swimming, Rowing / Canoeing, Sailing

• GPS Positioning VisualizationMarathon, Cycling Road, Triathlon, Rowing

• 3D Track Introduction, 3D Parcours AnimationMarathon, Cycling, Triathlon, Equestrian - Cross Country

SVG4000 Video Generator

Scoreboards with Chinese characters

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