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Football Enhancement to Use Fiber Gyros

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KVH Industries Inc. of Middletown, R.I., has announced that it will supply its fiber optic gyroscopes to Sportvision Inc. of New York. The gyros will be incorporated into the company's 1st & Ten Yellow Line system for use in professional and college football broadcasts this fall. The 1st & Ten system, which debuted on ESPN's Sunday Night Football program in September 1998, inserts a virtual first-down line into the video signal from a game. Computers monitor the position and movement of the live camera with respect to a 3-D model of the field and determine where the first-down...Read full article

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