Patent attributes
Disclosed is an image capture method using a virtual tracking sensor, implemented in an image capture system including wide-field image acquisition devices, each placed at a different fixed position along the course, such that the images captured at a given instant in time by two different acquisition devices represent different points of view of athletes traveling over the course. The method includes: capturing, in real time, images representative of an area in space that is substantially equivalent to the predetermined course, by each acquisition device of the plurality; selecting, for each instant in time of a plurality of successive instants in time, a given acquisition device and a portion of the image captured thereby at the instant in time; and reconstructing, on the basis of the selected image portions, a video sequence similar to that which would have been captured by an acquisition device moving along the course.
