Patent ID: 8803951

Claim:
A method for integrating a virtual rendering system and a video capture system for outputting a composite render to a display, the method comprising: obtaining, from the virtual rendering system, a first virtual camera configuration of a first virtual camera in a virtual environment, wherein the first virtual camera configuration includes camera position data, camera field of view orientation data, camera movement data and camera characteristics data; programming the video capture system using the first virtual camera configuration to correspondingly control a first robotic camera in a real environment; capturing, from the video capture system, a first video capture feed of the real environment using the first robotic camera, the first video capture feed including a real field background; obtaining, from the virtual rendering system, a first virtually rendered feed of the virtual environment using the first virtual camera, the first virtually rendered feed including presenting a virtual object in a hypothetical sports play, wherein the virtual object comprises a virtual ball of a virtual game; rendering the composite render by processing the first video capture feed and the first virtually rendered feed, wherein the composite render includes at least one other scene in a formatted layout, wherein the composite render further includes at least one real player presented in the hypothetical sports play with the virtual object using the real field background; and outputting the composite render to the display.