EP0432352A3 - Method and device for determining the time between start and finish of athletes or suchlike - Google Patents

Method and device for determining the time between start and finish of athletes or suchlike Download PDF

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EP0432352A3
EP0432352A3 EP19900110891 EP90110891A EP0432352A3 EP 0432352 A3 EP0432352 A3 EP 0432352A3 EP 19900110891 EP19900110891 EP 19900110891 EP 90110891 A EP90110891 A EP 90110891A EP 0432352 A3 EP0432352 A3 EP 0432352A3
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
    • G07C1/22—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people in connection with sports or games
    • G07C1/24—Race time-recorders
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
    • G04F13/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by means not provided for in groups G04F5/00 - G04F10/00
    • G04F13/02—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by means not provided for in groups G04F5/00 - G04F10/00 using optical means

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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  • Measurement Of Unknown Time Intervals (AREA)
  • Time Recorders, Dirve Recorders, Access Control (AREA)
  • Closed-Circuit Television Systems (AREA)
  • Waste-Gas Treatment And Other Accessory Devices For Furnaces (AREA)
  • Feedback Control In General (AREA)
  • Testing Electric Properties And Detecting Electric Faults (AREA)
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In order to determine the time between the start and finish of competitors or racers (7), riders, racing cars, vehicles or the like, provision is made of a recording or video camera (3) having a reproduction unit (8, 9) for stills and preferably having a  monitor (2), in addition a timer (10) or time generator which during the operation of the camera fades the concurrently running time initiated by a start pulse, for example by a start pistol, starting light barrier or the like, into respectively the individual pictures supplied thereby and indicates from still to still the respective time of the taking of the individual picture. Furthermore, in this arrangement a finishing light barrier (6) is arranged in correspondence with the finishing line (5), and the recording camera delivers its stills in a fixed time interval of preferably two or four hundredths of a second, and is likewise set up in alignment with the finishing line (5). In this arrangement, the transmission pulse of the camera (3) for a picture signal to the video recorder (8) is simultaneously used for the purpose of driving the time generator (10), so that the latter is caused to fade the time respectively present in it at the instant of a picture being taken into this picture, produced at that time, it being the case that, in order to take account of a possible displacement of the production of the picture to a time that is accurate, for example, to a hundredth of a second, the faded-in time is measured and displayed at least one order of magnitude more finely or more precisely than the smallest time unit to be measured, that is to say to a thousandth of a second in the case of the abovementioned example of a time unit which must be measured precisely to a hundredth of a second. <IMAGE>
EP90110891A 1989-11-15 1990-06-08 Method and device for determining the time between start and finish of athletes or suchlike Expired - Lifetime EP0432352B1 (en)

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DE3937977A DE3937977C1 (en) 1989-11-15 1989-11-15
DE3937977 1989-11-15

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EP0432352A2 EP0432352A2 (en) 1991-06-19
EP0432352A3 true EP0432352A3 (en) 1991-12-27
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EP (1) EP0432352B1 (en)
JP (1) JPH03171124A (en)
AT (1) ATE115314T1 (en)
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EP0002870A1 (en) * 1977-12-27 1979-07-11 Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A. Chronometric installation with television picture taking device
EP0207675A1 (en) * 1985-06-19 1987-01-07 Yamaguchi Cinema Corporation Video recording and reproducing apparatus
EP0291627A2 (en) * 1987-05-21 1988-11-23 Augustin Imhof Method and device for determining the time between the start and finish of competitors and the like

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EP0432352A2 (en) 1991-06-19
US5105395A (en) 1992-04-14
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