Patent ID: 7812856

Claim:
A method for providing venue-based data to hand held devices, said method comprising the steps of: capturing video images from more than one perspective of a venue-based activity using more than one video camera located at a sports and entertainment venue; providing said video images to a server to process said more than one video perspective captured by more than one video camera into venue-based data formatted for wireless transmission via wireless data networks to more than one hand held device, each of said more than one hand held device further comprising at least one of a personal digital assistant and a smart phone, said more than one hand held device including at least one 802.11 wireless module for access to a wireless local area network and a cellular communications module for communication with a wireless cellular communications network, said more than one hand held device further comprising a touch-sensitive display screen to simultaneously and singularly display said venue-based data and to accept user input via said touch-sensitive display screen; and retrieving said venue-based data from said server and wirelessly transmitting said venue-based data to at least one hand held device located at said sports and entertainment venue over said wireless local area network and also wirelessly transmitting said venue-based data to at least one hand held device located outside of said sports and entertainment venue over said wireless cellular communications network.