Patent ID: 8456527

Claim:
A method for processing image data, comprising: obtaining a set of images of a live event as an object travels in a first traversal of a course in the live event, the set of images are captured by at least one camera; for each image of the set of images: (a) determining a location of the object on the course at a time the image is captured, based on signals received from equipment carried on board the object, (b) providing a template comprising a pixel representation of the object in the image and selected surrounding pixels in the image which bound the pixel representation, and (c) storing the template comprising the pixel representation of the object in the image and the selected surrounding pixels in the image which bound the pixel representation, indexed to the location, the location indicated by location data from the signals received from the equipment carried on board the object; obtaining an additional image of the object in a second traversal of the course, the additional image is captured by the at least one camera; determining a location of the object on the course at a time the additional image is captured, based on signals received from the equipment carried on board the object; selecting, as a selected template, one of the templates which is indexed to a location which is closest, among the locations of the templates, to the location of the object on the course at the time the additional image is captured; and detecting a representation of the object in the additional image by correlating the additional image with the selected template.