7/24/04 Photo Finish
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Sometimes things happen so fast at the Tour de France finish line it's hard to
tell who the clear winner is. Ever improving technology takes the guessing out
of photo-finishes.
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Doug DeAngelis is a former track and field athlete. Now he's an engineer
building a successful business proving winners and losers with a technology he
invented as a student at MIT. Giles Norton, spokesperson for Lynx Systems
Developers, says DeAngelis' technology is taking 2,000 digital pictures a second
along finish lines of the Tour
de France. Computer software instantly links those images with a precise
race time, and pieces it all together with a crystal clear finish photo that
shows a clear winner. With the National Academy of Engineering, Randy Atkins,
WTOP Radio.