Patent ID: 8723956

Claim:
An apparatus for camera control including: a plurality of cameras located around a physical race course, each camera being controllable to assume a plurality of viewing directions; a storage means for storing triaxial coordinates of the position of each said plurality of cameras, and coordinates of the physical race course boundaries, to thereby generate a computer generated matrix being a virtual map of said physical race course; a means for plotting a predetermined path on said virtual map, comprising sequential triaxial coordinates that correspond to geographical positions on the physical race course, the predetermined path being stored in said storage means; a computer generated node configured to move, either along, or parallel and offset from, the predetermined path on said virtual map, the movement of the computer generated node corresponding to the anticipated velocity of at least one untagged participant in a race on said physical race course, the at least one untagged participant not having a geographical position determining device attached thereto, the computer generated node being controlled to move along, or parallel and offset from, said predetermined path at the expected speed of said untagged participant along said racecourse; and a control means in communication with the plurality of cameras and storage means, wherein each camera is controlled such that its viewing direction substantially follows the relative position, on said physical race course, of the sequential triaxial coordinates of the computer generated node moving along, or parallel and offset from, the predetermined path in the virtual map to thereby capture images of said at least one untagged participant in said corresponding geographical positions on said race course, whereby the movement of said cameras being adjustable to correspond with the velocity of the at least one untagged participant.