EVER dashed home to watch a video of the big match only to find yourself
sitting through a tiresome couple of hours in which nothing much happens? A new
computer program being developed by Sharp, the Japanese consumer electronics
firm, aims to spare you such let-downs by picking out the highlights and putting
them together as a compilation videotape.
“In sports, very often the amount of interesting play is much shorter than
the entire game,” says Peter van Beek at Sharp’s US research lab in Camas,
Washington. “Highlights and indexing information would allow viewers to skip
uninteresting parts,” he says.…
