Patent ID: 8547431

Claim:
A method of generating an event log of game events associated with a physical object present in a sporting event, implemented on an apparatus, the method comprising: tracking, within a sequence of video images, image features which correspond to respective physical objects in the sporting event; displaying, on a display unit, the sequence of video images containing the tracked image features; detecting occurrence of a game event indicated by a detected change in direction of motion of a game object, which is different from the physical objects, by analyzing motion data of the game object from the sequence of video images; selecting, from the tracked image features, a first image feature displayed which corresponds to one of the physical objects to designate that physical object as a selected physical object, the first image feature being highlighted upon selection; displaying, responsive to detection of occurrence of the game event, a predefined event list of possible game events adjacent to the highlighted selected first image feature and superimposed over the displayed sequence of video images; selecting a game event from the displayed predefined event list of possible game events for association with the selected physical object in accordance with a manual selection of the game event by a user; and associating the selected game event with the selected physical object to generate the event log for that physical object.