Transcript Omega Official Timekeeper

Olympic Exhibition Tour
New Technologies
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Athletics
Rowing
Swimming
Broadcast technologies
Scoreboards with Chinese
Photofinish SCAN’O’STAR
Lausanne (July 05)
Judgement Screen
BIB Transponders
– Weight: < 9g
– Detection height:
2m
– Bib transponder
inside pocket
– Pocket with sticking
backside
– Stick on back of the
Bib number
Marathon
• Traditionally 10 timing points, wired (every 5 km, 1/2
marathon and finish)
• Additional 26 timing points for NBC (every mile) wireless
• Deeper analysis of athletes performances on a per mile
basis, with time and average speed
• Raises presentation of Olympic Marathon to an
unprecedent level
• Use of GPRS technology – Delay timing equipment to
server: 1.1s
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Partnership with China Mobile
Marathon
Positioning Rowing
• Information is used for several
applications:
– TV graphics (live and virtual
animation)
– race live tracking on PDAs and
Internet
– automatic intermediate timing
• Advantages of the system
– data is gained “nearly” automatically
– all data is live
– same shape and size as the old
number
– no difference with distribution and
collecting
ROWING
Positioning Rowing
• Intensive tests and use throughout 2007 during
– Rowing world cups in Linz (AUT), Amsterdam (NED) and Luzern
(SUI)
– Olympic test event in Beijing (CHN)
– Rowing World championships in Munich (GER)
– Rowing European championships in Poznan (POL)
Starting Block
Starting Block
>90°
>90°
30°
High Speed Video (HSV)
• Real time view of all cameras during recording
• Possibility to judge an image during recording
• Judgment :
– view of 4 camera or one in full screen
– easy image selection at different speed
– zoom window
– gamma, brightness and colour correction
• Backup functions (backup are made on removable hard disk).
HSV
• 100 images/s – 1 Gb data transfer rate
Virtual TV Services
• Virtual Graphics
Athletics, Swimming, Rowing / Canoeing, Sailing
• GPS Positioning Visualization
Marathon, Cycling Road, Triathlon, Rowing
• 3D Track Introduction, 3D Parcours Animation
Marathon, Cycling, Triathlon, Equestrian - Cross Country
SVG4000 Video Generator
Scoreboards with Chinese characters
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