Patent ID: 8059152

Claim:
A system for video detection and enhancement of a sport object during a sport contest, comprising: the sport object configured to phosphoresce at a selected non-visible frequency; a video collection and separation apparatus, configured to detect visible light from a scene that includes the sport object and to detect phosphorescence radiation emitted by the sport object at the selected non-visible frequency, configured to separate the detected visible light from the detected phosphorescence radiation, and configured to create a visible light signal from the detected visible light and to create a phosphorescent signal from the detected phosphorescence radiation, wherein the visible light signal is separated from the phosphorescent signal by separately detecting the visible light from the scene and the phosphorescence radiation emitted by the sport object; an enhancement module configured to receive and to enhance the phosphorescent signal; and a merge module configured to receive and to recombine a resulting enhanced-phosphorescent signal and the visible light signal into a recombined signal.