JP2002044654A - Speed boat race on-the-spot telecasting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speed boat race on-the-spot telecasting device of photographing the on-the-spot time-varying images of boat exhibition sailing and races which are displayed on a monitor in a speed boat racing course. SOLUTION: A speech recognition part 103 recognizes voices such as '-th race exhibition sailing starts' or fanfare or the like announced in the boat racing course and informs an on-the-spot telecast control part 105 of the start of an on-the-spot telecast. The on-the-spot telecast control part 105 informed of the start of an on-the- spot telecast collates it with a race program schedule stored in a schedule storage 101 and indicates that a camera switching control 110 starts photographing. An image recognition part 104 recognizes the boat numbers of boats photographed in exhibition sailing. A display image generating part 106 reads out the racers' names of the boats having the above boat numbers from a boat race information storage 102 and forms display images. A display control 111 superimposes the display images on the monitor 112 together with the images of the boats. On the boat race on-the-spot telecasting, the image recognition part 104 recognizes a top boat and informs the camera switching control 110 of an indication of switching cameras that photograph the split regions. The display control 111 enables images tracking the top boat to be displayed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a live boat race broadcasting system that broadcasts a live boat race broadcast on a monitor screen in a boat racetrack.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, an actual running condition of a race and a live condition of a race, which are broadcast on a monitor screen in a boat racetrack, are photographed by an operator operating a camera following a boat running on the surface of the water by voice guidance through the on-site broadcasting. . During the exhibition cruise,
When each boat arrives at a certain point, the operator manually superimposes the player name on the video taken on the monitor screen.

[0003] Also, during a live race, an operator visually monitors a camera image and manually controls panning, tilting, zooming, and the like, and switching control of a plurality of cameras.

[0004]

However, since the operator manually operates superimpose display, camera control, switching control of a plurality of cameras, and the like, the load on the operator is heavy and erroneous operation may be caused. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a live boat race broadcasting apparatus in which a video of a live broadcast at the time of display running or a race is not operated manually by an operator to prevent erroneous operation.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to a boat race live broadcasting device for photographing a display run and a race and displaying the photograph on a monitor screen in a boat racetrack. A plurality of cameras each for photographing each area of the race water surface divided into, a video recognizing means for recognizing the movement of each boat from the video taken by the camera, and each camera sequentially according to the recognition result of the video recognizing means. The system includes camera switching means for switching and tracking a running boat, and display control means for displaying an image captured by the switched camera on a monitor in the hall.

[0006]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a live boat race broadcasting system according to the present invention. (Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a live boat race broadcasting system according to the present invention.

[0007] The live boat race broadcasting system includes a schedule storage unit 101, a boat race information storage unit 102, and a voice recognition unit 1.
03, a video recognition unit 104, and a live broadcast control unit 105
, Display image creation unit 106, camera A 107, camera B 108, camera C 109, camera switching control unit 1
10, a display control unit 111, and a monitor 112.

The schedule storage unit 101 is constituted by a RAM or the like, and stores schedule information of a race program on the day of the event. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the content of the schedule information stored in the schedule storage unit 101. The schedule information 201 describes the display running time 202 and the shipping time 203 of the program of each race to be enforced. For example, the display running time of the first race is 10:49, and the shipping time is 11:03.

[0009] In the exhibition run, before the start of the race, each athlete running on the course runs at full speed for 2 laps, and after the display run, the navigation time of the back straight line (about 150 m) on the second lap is announced. You. It will be a reference for boat ticket prediction. The exhibition cruise can be started at the exhibition cruise time with the announcement of the "Start of Nth Race Exhibition Vessel". Each race will be announced at the start of the race with the announcement of the “Nth race live commentary” and the “Fanfare”
Started by

A boat race information storage unit 102 is constituted by a RAM or the like, is connected to a central host computer (not shown), and stores boat race information such as odds information of a boat ticket, race result information, water surface weather conditions, and player information. I remember. The odds information is payout information at the current time for each type of boat ticket in each race. FIG. 3 shows an example of the odds information.

[0011] The odds information 301 is a payout of a single ticket for a winning streak in the twelfth race. In addition, payouts of a winning type and a winning type are also stored. The race result information indicates the already determined race result as shown in FIG. In the race result information 401, a race name 402, a determinant 403, and a payout 404 of each boat ticket are described.

The water surface weather condition indicates current weather information on the water surface. FIG. 5 shows an example of the water surface weather condition. The player information indicates the runners of each race. FIG.
An example is shown in FIG. The player information 601 is for the twelfth race, and describes a frame order 602, a player registration number 603, a player name 604, and a hometown 605.

The voice recognition unit 103 has a voice input member such as a microphone, and inputs voice of an announcement in a hall or voice of a fanfare and recognizes the voice. Recognizing the race number "N" and "exhibition voyage" from the voice input of the announcement at the start of the exhibition voyage "Nth race exhibition voyage start",
The live broadcast control unit 105 is notified of the start of the exhibition running of the Nth race.

[0014] The announcement in the hall at the start of the live broadcast of the race "No. N
Recognizing the race number “N” from the voice input “Start of the live race”, recognizing “Fanfare” as a signal to start the race, and notifies the live broadcast control unit 105 of the start of the live broadcast of the Nth race. Also, the voice recognition unit 103
Recognition of the announcement "I will inform you of the result of the current race" broadcasted in the hall after the race is over, and instructs the live broadcast control unit 105 to display a refund.

The image recognition unit 104 stores the correspondence between the boat flag of each boat, the color of the player's clothes or the display position of the boat number, and the boat number of the boat. That is, the first boat is "white",
Boat 2 is black, boat 3 is red, boat 4 is blue, 5
Boat No. is yellow and Boat No. 6 is green. Image recognition unit 10
Reference numeral 4 denotes a camera A107 or a camera B108 during the exhibition cruise.
, And recognizes the color of each boat's boat flag and the like, and notifies the live broadcast control unit 105 of the corresponding boat number. For example, when the boat flag is recognized as “black”, the boat number “2” is notified to the live broadcast control unit 105.

The video recognition unit 104 may know the boat number by directly character-recognizing the boat number displayed on each boat. In addition, the image recognition unit 104 stores a pre-divided area where each camera captures an image of the race surface by tracking the boat's travel. FIG. 7 is a race water surface diagram showing a race water surface and divided areas. A center pole 704 is provided at the center between the race surface 701 and the first turn mark 702 on the right and the second turn mark 703 on the left. On the stand 705 side of the center pole 704, a large clock 706 is installed. The line connecting the center pole 704 and the large clock 706 serves as a start line and a goal line. A launch pit 707 is provided on the left side of the race water surface 701, and an electronic bulletin board 711 and a large-sized vision 708 are provided facing the stand 705 with the race water surface 701 interposed therebetween.

The race water surface 701 is divided into three regions, a region A, a region B, and a region C, as indicated by a dashed line. Each boat traveling in area A is camera A107, and area B
Are photographed by the camera B108, and each boat traveling in the area C is photographed by the camera C109. The video recognition unit 104 leaves the starting pit 707 during the live race,
The motion of each boat performing the waiting action is recognized from the image of the camera A, and when the first boat reaches the boundary 709 on the home side of the area A and the area B, the camera B tracks the first boat in the area B on the home side. To the camera switching control unit 110. From the image of camera B, the leading boat is at the boundary 710 between area B and area C.
Is recognized, the camera switching control unit 110
The camera C is instructed to track the first boat around the first turn mark 702 from the home side to the back side.

Next, the image recognizing unit 104 determines from the image of the camera C that the leading boat is the boundary 71 on the back side between the areas C and B.
0, the camera switching control unit 11
0 is instructed to camera B to track the first boat. When recognizing from the image of the camera B that the leading boat has reached the boundary 709 between the area B and the area A, the camera switching control unit 110 notifies the camera A of the second turn mark 7 from the back side to the home side.
Instruct the first boat around 03 to track.

When recognizing that the first boat has reached the boundary 709 from the image of the camera A, the video recognition unit 104 similarly instructs the camera switching control unit 110 to cause the camera B to track the first boat. This process is continued while the leading boat makes three laps on the running surface, and continues until the leading boat passes the goal. The live broadcast control unit 105 receives the notification of the start of the exhibition running of the N-th race from the voice recognition unit 103, and receives the schedule information 20 stored in the schedule storage unit 101.
It is determined whether or not it is within a predetermined time difference (for example, 2 minutes) from the display traveling time of the Nth race in 1 and if it is, the display screen creation unit 106 is notified of the Nth race. Then, it instructs the camera switching control unit 110 to take a picture of the exhibition voyage.

The live broadcast control unit 105 includes a video recognition unit 10.
When the notification of the number of the boat that is currently running is received from 4, the display image creating unit 106 is notified of the boat number. If the boat number notified from the video recognition section 104 is not notified in the order of “1” to “6” and a certain boat number is missing, the live broadcast control section 105 The number that has been omitted is notified to 106, and a notification is made to create a display image indicating that the user is absent.

The live broadcast control unit 105 includes a voice recognition unit 10.
When the notification that the race is live of the Nth race is received from No. 3, it is determined whether or not the start time of the Nth race in the schedule information 201 stored in the schedule storage unit 101 is within a predetermined time difference. , The camera switching control unit 110 is instructed to start a live race. Further, when receiving an instruction to display a refund from the voice recognition unit 103, the camera switching control unit 110 is instructed to photograph the refund displayed on the electronic bulletin board 711.

Note that the live broadcast control unit 105 stores information on the boat race information storage unit 10 when the live running of the exhibition or the race is not performed.
In order to display the information of the odds, the weather condition of the water surface, the race result, and the like stored in 2, the display image creation unit 106 is instructed to create a display image. When receiving the notification of the race number and the boat number from the live broadcast control unit 105, the display image creation unit 106 reads the player information 601 stored in the boat race information storage unit 102 and displays the player name of the boat. An image is created and notified to the display control unit 111. Upon receiving the notification of the missing boat from the live broadcast control unit 105, a display image of “missing boat X” describing that the boat will be missed is created,
Notify the display control unit 111.

Also, when the live broadcast control unit 105 instructs to create a display image of the odds information, the water surface weather condition, the race result, and the like, the information stored in the boat race information storage unit 102 is read and the display image is displayed. And notifies the display control unit 111. Camera A107 is a boat in area A, camera B108 is a boat in area B, camera C10
Reference numeral 9 denotes a camera switching control unit 110 for each boat in the area C.
Shoot under the control of.

When the camera switching control unit 110 receives an instruction from the live broadcast control unit 105 to start photographing the exhibition voyage, it turns the camera A 107 to the start pit 707 and
Follow the boat leaving 07. At this time, the camera A107
Zoom in to catch the boat. When receiving an instruction to capture the area B with the camera B 108 from the video recognition unit 104, the camera A
Aiming at the starting pit 707, preparing for tracking of the next boat to start, and shooting the boat entering the area B with the camera B 108 facing the home side of the boundary 709. After the camera switching control unit 110 photographs the boat to the boundary 710 by zooming the camera B108, the camera switching control unit 110 directs the camera B108 to the boundary 709 to prepare for photographing the next boat.

Upon receiving an instruction to start shooting a race from the live broadcast control unit 105, the camera switching control unit 110 sets the counter R to "0", directs the camera A 107 to the start pit 707, and leaves the start pit 707. Each boat is photographed, and each boat performing a waiting action from the home side toward the back side of the second turn mark 703 is photographed, and then a boat traveling from the area A on the home side to the area B is photographed. When receiving a switching instruction to the camera B 108 from the video recognition unit 104, the camera A 107 is directed to the back side boundary 709 to prepare for the next photographing, and the camera B 108 is moved to the home side boundary 709.
Pan control toward and follow the first boat.

The camera switching control unit 110 includes the image recognition unit 1
When an instruction to switch to camera C is received from camera 04, counter R
It is determined whether or not the value of “3” is “3”, and when it is “3”, the photographing is ended. If it is not “3”, the camera B 108 is directed to the boundary 701 on the back side to prepare for the next photographing, and the camera C 109 directed to the home side of the boundary 710 tracks the first boat around the turn mark 702.

The camera switching control unit 110 includes the image recognition unit 1
When receiving the instruction to switch from the camera 04 to the camera B, the camera C 109 is directed to the boundary 710 on the home side, and the camera B 108 is pan-controlled for the leading boat traveling in the area B on the back side toward the second turn mark 703. To follow. When an instruction to switch to the camera A is received from the video recognition unit 104, “1” is added to the counter R, the camera B 108 is directed to the boundary 709 on the home side, and the second
Follow the first boat around the turn mark 703.

The camera switching control unit 110 includes the image recognition unit 1
When an instruction to switch to camera B108 is received from 04,
In the same manner as described above, the leading boat traveling in the goal direction in the area B on the home side is tracked by controlling the camera B108. These processes are performed continuously while the leading boat makes three laps on the race surface 701. Further, when instructed by the live broadcast control unit 105 to photograph the refund, the camera switching control unit 110 causes the camera B 108 to zoom and photograph the refund displayed on the electric bulletin board 711.

Camera A, Camera B, Camera C 107-1
The video shot at 09 is notified to the display control unit 111. The camera switching control unit 110 or the video recognition unit 10
4 can be performed by recognizing the boat's shadow on the home side and recognizing the wake caused by the boat on the back side to recognize the first boat.

The display control unit 111 includes a camera switching control unit 1
10, each of cameras A, B, and C 107-1 notified
09 is displayed on the monitor 112 including the large vision 708. In addition, the display image created by the display image creation unit 106 is displayed together with the photographed video during the exhibition running, and only the display image is displayed on the monitor 112 except during the exhibition running or the live race.

The monitor 112 is a display provided in a large number of boat racetracks including the large-sized vision 708, and displays images of the actual running of the exhibition and the race, and display images such as boat race information under the control of the display control unit 111. FIG. 8 is an example of a display screen displayed on the monitor 112 during the exhibition running. The display screen shows the video 80
2 and a display image 803 are displayed. Video 802
Are images captured by the camera B 108, and the display image 803 is created by the display image creation unit 106. The display image 803 is displayed for, for example, 10 seconds. The second boat displayed in the video 802 is recognized by the video recognition unit 104, for example, as having the player's clothing color "black", and the corresponding boat number is determined to be "2", and is displayed. The image creation unit 106 is notified. The display image creating unit 106 reads the player name of the second boat from the player information 601 of the twelfth race from the boat race information storage unit 102, and creates a display image 803.

As described above, the athlete of the second boat is "Ota Kazuo"
Can be superimposed and displayed on the monitor 112 without the intervention of an operator. FIG. 9 is an example of a display screen displaying a video of a live race displayed on the monitor 112. The display screen 901 shows the leading boat 902 that has passed the goal line,
Currently, the second boat 903 is displayed.

When the race is confirmed, the monitor 112
Displays the race decision and the refund of the boat ticket. Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The live broadcast control unit 105 receives an instruction from the speech recognition unit 103 as to whether to display or start the Nth race (S1002).
The counter M is set to "1" (S1004), and the camera switching control unit 110 is instructed to start shooting for the exhibition voyage.

The camera switching control unit 110 includes a camera A10
7 and the camera B 108 are controlled to track the boat starting from the starting pit 707 (S1006). The live broadcast control unit 105 receives the notification of the boat number M, which is the identification result of the boat by the video recognition unit 104, and determines whether or not the value matches the value of the counter M (S1008). The image generation unit 106 is notified of the race number and the boat number to generate a display image.

The display control unit 111 displays, on the monitor 112, a display image displaying the player's name of the boat created by the display image creation unit 106 together with the video of the boat taken by the camera A 107 or the camera B 108 for a certain period of time. For example 10
A superimpose display is performed for seconds (S1010).
The live broadcast control unit 105 adds “1” to the value of the counter M (S1012).

In S1008, the live broadcast control unit 10
5 is a display image showing the absence of the M boat to the display image creation section 106 when the boat M cannot be recognized, that is, when the boat number notified from the video recognition section 104 is different from the value of the counter M. To create The display control unit 111 displays the created display image indicating the absence of the M boat for a predetermined time, for example, 5 minutes.
For a second, the image captured by the A 107 or the camera B 108 is displayed on the monitor 112 instead of the image captured by the camera A (S1014).
Move to 12.

The live broadcast control unit 105 determines whether or not the value of the counter M is 7 (S1016). If affirmative, the process ends, and if negative, the process returns to S1006. S1
In 002, the live broadcast control unit 105 receives an instruction to start the Nth race from the speech recognition unit 103, and instructs the camera switching control unit 110 to shoot a race when the start time matches the start time in the schedule information.

The camera switching control section 110 sets the counter R to "0" (S1018), moves away from the starting pit by the camera A107, and moves to the area A near the second turn mark 703.
Then, each boat performing the waiting action is photographed (S1020). The camera switching control unit 110 sends the camera B
108 (S1022), and the camera B
At 108, the first boat traveling on the home side water surface in the area B in the start line direction is tracked (S1024).

Next, the camera switching control section 110 waits for an instruction to switch to the camera C109 from the video recognition section 104 (S1026), and determines whether or not the value of the counter R is "3" (S1028). , "3", the process is terminated, and if not, the camera C109 tracks the first boat around the first turn mark 702 in the area C (S1030). The camera switching control unit 110 waits for an instruction to switch to the camera B108 from the video recognition unit 104 (S1032), and tracks the leading boat traveling on the back side water surface of the area B with the camera B108 (S1034). Next, after waiting for an instruction to switch to the camera A 107 from the video recognition unit 104 (S103)
6) Then, “1” is added to the counter R (S1038), and the camera A107 tracks the first boat around the second turn mark 703 (S140).

The camera switching control unit 110 includes the video recognition unit 1
04 and waits for an instruction to switch to camera B108 (S
1042), and returns to S1024. In this embodiment, three cameras A, B, and C107 to 109 are used to take photographs of an exhibition cruise, a race, and the like. However, two or more cameras use four or more cameras. May be taken. In this case, the race water surface shown in FIG. 7 is divided into the same number of areas as the number of cameras.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of this embodiment, but a computer-readable recording medium, such as a CD-ROM or a floppy (registered trademark) disk, which executes a program for causing a computer to perform the functions of the components. For example, the present invention may be applied to a live boat race broadcasting system that does not have a function of displaying and running a race or a live race without the intervention of an operator to obtain the same effect as the present invention.

[0042]

As described above, the present invention relates to a live boat race broadcasting system for photographing an exhibition cruise and a race and displaying the photograph on a monitor screen in a boat racecourse, which is divided into a plurality of areas in advance. A plurality of cameras for photographing each area of the water surface, a video recognizing means for recognizing the motion of each boat from the video captured by the cameras, and a boat for sequentially switching between the cameras according to the recognition result of the video recognizing means. , And display control means for displaying an image captured by the switched camera on a monitor in the hall. With such a configuration, it is possible to avoid the trouble of the operator operating a plurality of cameras to track each boat and manually switching images captured by the plurality of cameras.

Schedule storage means for storing the schedule of each race, boat race information storage means for storing boat race information for each race, voice recognition means for recognizing the sound of the on-site broadcast, and storage in the schedule storage means A live broadcast that instructs the start of shooting from the respective race schedules and the contents of the on-site broadcast recognized by the voice recognition unit, and instructs to create a display image of boat race information according to the result recognized by the video recognition unit. Control means, and display image creating means for reading out the boat racing information stored in the boat racing information storage means in accordance with an instruction of the live broadcast control means to create a display image, wherein the camera switching control means comprises the live broadcast control The photographing is started according to an instruction of the means, and the display control means displays the display image created by the display image creating means together with the video. It is set to be displayed in the hall monitor. With such a configuration, the start timing of shooting in each race can be accurately grasped, and necessary boat racing information can be displayed on the monitor together with the video.

Further, in the case of the live state of the exhibition cruise, the camera switching means may be provided on the first side of the water surface on the home side from the starting pit.
Each boat up to the vicinity of the turn mark is tracked by switching the camera, and the image recognition means identifies the athlete's clothing color or the color of the boat flag from the image of the boat taken by the camera to determine the number of the boat. A boat determination unit that determines whether or not the boat number is determined by directly recognizing the boat number, and notifies the live broadcast control unit of the boat number determined by the boat determination unit. The live broadcast control means notifies the notified boat number to the display image creating means, and the display image creating means reads the player name of the notified boat number from the boat race information. , A display image is created, and the display control means superimposes a display image created by the display image creation means on a video of the boat on a monitor in the hall. With such a configuration, the video of each boat and the player's name of the boat can be displayed together during the exhibition cruising.

[0045] Further, when the notification of the boat number is not in the order of "1" to "6", the live broadcast control means causes the display image creation means to create a display image indicating that the boat number not notified is absent. I'm going to tell you. With such a configuration, it is possible to notify a boat ticket purchaser that there is a missing boat. Further, in the case of the live race, the camera switching means photographs each boat orbiting the water surface between the second turn mark and the first turn mark from the starting pit with a camera,
The image recognizing means captures a next region when the leading boat reaches a boundary between the divided regions, and a leading boat recognizing unit that recognizes the leading boat from the image of the boat captured by the camera. A notifying unit for notifying the camera switching unit that the camera is switched to the camera, wherein the camera switching unit outputs the image of the camera notified from the notifying unit to the display control unit. With such a configuration, it is possible to track the leading boat and display an image of the live race condition on the on-site monitor without causing an erroneous operation by the operator at the start of the race.

Further, the voice recognition means includes a first recognition unit for recognizing “N” and “exhibition voyage” from “Nth (N is 1 to 12) race exhibition voyage start” of the on-site broadcasting, It has a second recognition unit for recognizing "N" and "Fanfare" from "Nth race live performance start" and "Fanfare" of the on-site broadcasting. With such a configuration,
You can definitely recognize the race number and whether it is an exhibition run or a race.

Further, the present invention is applied to a live boat race broadcasting system in which each area of the race surface of the race where the display run and the race are divided into a plurality of areas is photographed by separate cameras and is displayed on a monitor screen in the boat race course. A computer-readable recording medium, comprising: video recognizing means for recognizing the motion of each boat from the video captured by the camera; and The recording medium is a computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to perform the functions of a camera switching unit that tracks the image and a display control unit that displays an image captured by the switched camera on a monitor in the hall.
With such a configuration, it is possible to realize a boat race live broadcasting apparatus that does not require an operator's operation by using a recording medium in a boat race live broadcasting apparatus that requires an operator's operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a live boat race broadcasting device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of schedule information stored in a schedule storage unit according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of odds information stored in a boat race information storage unit according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a race result stored in a boat race information storage unit according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a water surface weather condition stored in the boat race information storage unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of player information stored in the boat race information storage unit of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a racing water surface on which a live broadcast of a boat race is broadcast in the above-described embodiment and an area in charge of each camera.

FIG. 8 is an example of a display screen displayed on the monitor of the above embodiment during the exhibition running.

FIG. 9 is an example of a display screen at the time of a live race displayed on the monitor of the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 schedule storage unit 102 boat race information storage unit 103 voice recognition unit 104 video recognition unit 105 live broadcast control unit 106 display image creation unit 107 camera A 108 camera B 109 camera C 110 camera switching control unit 111 display control unit 112 monitor

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A live boat race broadcasting system for photographing an exhibition run and a race and displaying the photograph on a monitor screen in a boat racetrack, wherein a plurality of areas each of which is preliminarily divided into a plurality of areas, is photographed. A camera, video recognition means for recognizing the movement of each boat from the video taken by the camera, and camera switching means for sequentially switching each camera in accordance with the recognition result of the video recognition means to track a running boat. And a display control means for displaying an image photographed by the camera on a monitor in the hall. 2. A schedule storage means for storing a schedule of each race; a boat race information storage means for storing boat racing information for each race; a voice recognition means for recognizing a sound of a public broadcast; and a storage in the schedule storage means. A live broadcast that instructs the start of shooting from the respective race schedules and the contents of the on-site broadcast recognized by the voice recognition unit, and instructs to create a display image of boat race information according to the result recognized by the video recognition unit. Control means; and display image creating means for reading out the boat racing information stored in the boat racing information storage means in accordance with an instruction of the live broadcast controlling means to create a display image, wherein the camera switching control means comprises the live broadcast control. Starting shooting according to the instruction of the means, the display control means, together with the video, the display image created by the display image creating means 2. The live broadcast system for boat racing according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast is displayed on an on-site monitor. 3. In the case of the live state of the exhibition cruise, the camera switching means tracks each boat from the starting pit to the vicinity of the first turn mark on the water surface on the home side by switching cameras, and the video recognition means The boat's image taken by the camera identifies the color of the athlete's clothes or the flag of the boat to determine the number of the boat, or recognizes the boat number directly by character recognition to determine the number of the boat. A boat determination unit for determining, and a notification unit for notifying the live broadcast control unit of the number of the boat determined by the boat determination unit, the live broadcast control unit comprising: The display image creating means reads the player name of the notified boat number from the boat race information, creates a display image, and the display control means includes: The display image created by the display image creation means is displayed on a monitor in the hall. Motorboat commentary apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the to par imposed displayed. 4. The live broadcast control means, when the notification of the boat number is not in the order of “1” to “6”, causes the display image creation means to create a display image indicating that the boat number not notified is absent. 4. The broadcast system for broadcasting a boat race according to claim 3, wherein an instruction is given. 5. In the case of the live race, the camera switching means photographs each boat orbiting the water surface between the second turn mark and the first turn mark from the starting pit with a camera, and the image recognition means. The first boat recognizing section for recognizing the first boat from the video of the boat captured by the camera, and switching to a camera for shooting the next area when the first boat reaches the boundary between the divided areas. 2. The live boat race according to claim 1, further comprising: a notifying unit that notifies the camera switching unit, wherein the camera switching unit outputs the image of the camera notified from the notifying unit to the display control unit. 3. Broadcast equipment. 6. A first recognition unit for recognizing “N” and “exhibition voyage” from “Nth (N is 1 to 12) race exhibition voyage start” of the on-site broadcasting, Recognition of "N" and "Fanfare" from "Nth Race Commentary" and "Fanfare"
The live broadcast system for boat races according to claim 2, further comprising a recognition unit. 7. A computer-readable program applied to a live boat race broadcasting system for photographing each area of a racetrack surface obtained by dividing an exhibition run and a race into a plurality of areas with a separate camera and displaying the captured image on a monitor screen in the boat racetrack. A possible recording medium, comprising: video recognition means for recognizing the movement of each boat from video captured by the camera; and camera switching for sequentially switching each camera in accordance with the recognition result of the video recognition means to track a running boat. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform the functions of each of the means and display control means for displaying an image captured by the switched camera on a monitor in the hall.