Patent ID: 8358345

Claim:
A monitoring system to monitor a sporting event, the system comprising: a monitoring device to monitor predetermined characteristics of the sporting event and to collect monitored data, the monitoring device addressing an aspect of interest of the sporting event, and monitoring and collecting monitored data in real time relative to the aspect of interest; a converter to process monitored data into digitized data frames having a defined size; a digital data memory storage device adapted to receive and store the monitored data as a memory mapped file in a random access real-time storage buffer as a plurality of time-stamped digitized data frames with unique addresses, the digital data memory storage device capable of both time shifting and relational association of the digitized data frames when the digitized data frames vary in at least one of size, length, and capacity; a controller to control the monitoring system, the controller in communication with the digital data memory storage device and the monitoring device and determine when a digitized data frame is available from the real-time storage buffer, wait for a new frame ready event indicating that the digitized data frame has been added to the real-time storage buffer when the digitized data frame is not initially available from the real-time storage buffer and extract the digitized data frame according to a predetermined criterion when the digitized data frame is available from the real-time storage buffer; a viewing device in communication with the digital data memory storage device and the controller that selects, manipulates, and views the extracted digitized data frame and the collected data; and an annotation device providing real time annotated images and video segments appearing on the viewing device.