Patent ID: 7106360

Claim:
A method for distributing video images and audio signals of a race car competition from the perspective of an individual race participant to one or more individual viewers comprising the steps of providing each of a plurality of participants in said event with a video camera affixed to the race car and mechanically adjustable to provide a selectable view of the race and a microphone to provide sound, both from that participant's perspective, providing each of said cameras with a respective transmitter for transmitting information regarding video images and audio generated by the camera and microphone, respectively, which video image and audio reflect the participant's view of the race, providing retransmission equipment for receiving information transmitted by the transmitter and directing information regarding video images and audio, respectively, from each of the plurality of cameras and microphones to respective channels for remote viewing at a viewer's location, providing channel selectors that permit viewers at their individual locations to select from among the channels a particular participant's view of the race, simultaneously operating said cameras during the event so as to generate a plurality of camera and audio feeds during the event, each feed individually reflecting the perspective of the respective participant in real time, transmitting the plurality of feeds to the retransmitting equipment, and retransmitting the feeds to said channels, such that each of a plurality of viewers is able to select from a plurality of said channels the perspective of one or more individual participants or a group of participants, wherein the video images and audio are transmitted by way of a pay-per-view television system or Internet or other computer network and displayed as a single or a plurality of selected images on a split television or monitor screen, based on viewer selection and wherein the view of the camera is selected by a mechanical adjustment by the participant or an outside party.