Video imaging an area of interest using networked cameras

Abstract

The systems, methods, and/or computer-readable media described herein allow a reviewer to review video content of multiple perspectives of area(s) of interest at a specific time using a system of networked and time-synchronized video cameras. The networked and time-synchronized video cameras may comprise dedicated video cameras or may be coupled to mobile phones or tablet computing devices, and/or those incorporated in action housings. The networked and time-synchronized video cameras may capture multiple perspectives of area(s) of interest in that they may be arranged so that their fields of view are directed toward different orientations with respect to the area(s) of interest.

1 . A system comprising:
 a time-synchronized video capture device management engine configured to gather time-synchronized video content of one or more areas of interest from time-synchronized video capture devices, the time-synchronized video content corresponding to fields of view of the one or more areas of interest;   a three-dimensional dome representation integration engine coupled to the time-synchronized video capture device management engine, the three-dimensional dome representation integration engine configured to:
 identify an orientation for each of the fields of view, the orientation being associated with a viewer perspective related to the each of the fields of view; 
 mark the orientations with orientation markers; 
 integrate the time-synchronized video content and the orientation markers into a three-dimensional dome representation of the one or more areas of interest, the three-dimensional dome representation configured to arrange the time-synchronized video content in accordance with the orientation markers; 
   a stitched video representation management engine coupled to the three-dimensional dome representation integration engine, the stitched video representation management engine configured to create a stitched video representation of the one or more areas of interest using the three-dimensional dome representation, the stitched video representation configured to facilitate display of any of the time-synchronized video content at a specific time, and the stitched video representation using the orientation markers to facilitate switching between the time-synchronized video content at the specific time;   a playback device management engine coupled to the stitched video representation management engine, the playback device management engine configured to provide the stitched video representation to one or more playback devices for display by the one or more playback devices.