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David Crain

David Crain (born 1946) is an American engineer and business strategist in the electronics and construction industries.  He is the creator and inventor of what is commonly known as the "1st  and Ten" graphical overlay system used in sports television broadcasts .

Dr. David Crain in front of a current implementation of the system he envisioned in his original patent 20 years earlier.

Early Life

Crain was born and raised in California's San Gabriel Valley. He graduated from Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, CA. According to Crain, his technical interests started at age 14 when he was given a Physics set that contained an optical bench, parts for simple dc circuits, and parts to make an electric motor. 

Education

Crain earned a B.S. in Physics (1968), an M.S. in Materials Science (1971),  and Ph.D. in Materials Science (1976) all from University of Southern California (USC)  .  His Ph.D. dissertation,  “Charge Motion in the Variable Threshold Memory Transistor,”   focused on flash memory transistor development nearly 30 years before commercial introduction of the technology.

Career

Crain’s professional career started in 1968 with the United States Naval Oceans System Command in San Diego, California where he was responsible for development of microelectronics for anti-submarine-warfare systems.  It was there, while working on undersea television exploration technology, he conceived and received the first patent on what became “TV’s yellow line” also known as the “1st and Ten” concept described below.  His focus on strategic planning began in 1976 with a move to Sempra Energy  as Director of Corporate Strategy.  In 1996, he shifted his focus to the construction industry with a move to  Fluor Corporation as Director of Markets and Strategies.  In 1999, Crain became president of the Association for Strategic Planning, an organization he founded along with Janice Laureen, Stan Abraham and Sumner Alpert . During his career he served as an adjunct professor and lecturer in Engineering and Business Strategy at several Southern California Universities.   He also served as the Statewide Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for MESA, Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement, a California organization that provides campus-based tutoring, study halls, and classes for the benefit of historically disadvantaged college students.

1^St and Ten Invention

Crain was awarded US Patent 4084184 “TV Object Locator and Image Identifier” on April 11, 1978.  One use of the technology was to create on-field markings to allow TV viewers to identify the distance needed to achieve a first down in televised football games. It did so by inserting graphical elements on the field of play as if they were physically present. He presented the concept to Roone Arledge and Roger Goodman of ABC News and Sports and to Robert T. McKinley the CBS Technology Center .   At the time, the broadcast industry was not ready to use Crain's invention. The invention was brought to market 20 years later and was introduced on ESPN football telecasts in 1998 when signal processing technology had the speed to keep up with insertion of dynamic objects in the field of view .   It is now widely used in network sports broadcasts and the foundation technology for augmented reality (AR) video applications. Table 1 lists the top 30 patents that reference Crain’s original invention.

Table 1. Top 30 Inventions Citing Crain's Patent

PATENT#	DATE AWARDED	PATENT NAME	INVENTOR
US 4084184 A	4/11/1978	TV Object locator and image identifier	Crain; David W.
US 4490742 A	12/25/1984	Encoding apparatus for a closed-circuit television system	Wurtzinger; Richard E.
US 4855820 A	8/8/1989	Down hole video tool apparatus and method for visual well bore recording	Barbour; Joel
US 4928175 A	5/22/1990	Method for the three-dimensional surveillance of the object space	Haggren; Henrik
US 4963984 A	10/16/1990	Optical projection camera alignment system and method	Womack; Kenneth H.
US 4985779 A	1/15/1991	Improved method and apparatus for generating halftone images	Gall; Winrich
US 5892554 A	4/6/1999	System and method for inserting static and dynamic images into a live video broadcast	DiCicco; Darrell S. et al.
US 5808695 A	9/15/1998	Method of tracking scene motion for live video insertion systems	Rosser; Roy J. et al.
US 5912700 A	6/15/1999	System for enhancing the television presentation of an object at a sporting event	Honey; Stanley K. et al.
US 5672820 A	9/30/1997	Object location identification system for providing location data of an object being pointed at by a pointing device	Rossi; John H. et al.
US 5917553 A	6/29/1999	Method and apparatus for enhancing the broadcast of a live event	Honey; Stanley K. et al.
US 6252632 B1	6/26/2001	System for enhancing a video presentation	Cavallaro; Richard H.
US 5953077 A	9/14/1999	System for displaying an object that is not visible to a camera	Honey; Stanley K. et al.
US 6195122 B1	2/27/2001	Spatial referenced photography	Vincent; Robert
US 6266100 B1	7/24/2001	System for enhancing a video presentation of a live event	Gloudemans; James R. et al.
US 6229550 B1	5/8/2001	Blending a graphic	Gloudemans; James R. et al.
US 6100925 A	8/8/2000	Image insertion in video streams using a combination of physical sensors and pattern recognition	Rosser; Roy J. et al.
US 6466275 B1	10/15/2002	Enhancing a video of an event at a remote location using data acquired at the event	Honey; Stanley K. et al.
US 7075556 B1	7/11/2006	Telestrator system	Meier; Kevin R. et al.
US 6965397 B1	11/15/2005	Measuring camera attitude	Honey; Stanley K. et al.
US 7230653 B1	6/12/2007	Method and apparatus for real time insertion of images into video	Overton; Kenneth J. et al.
US 6909438 B1	6/21/2005	Video compositor	White; Marvin S. et al.
US 7206434 B2	4/17/2007	Method and system for measurement of the duration an area is included in an image stream	Overton; Kenneth J. et al.
US 7341530 B2	3/11/2008	Virtual strike zone	Cavallaro; Richard H. et al.
US 20050001852 A1	1/6/2005	System and method for inserting content into an image sequence	Dengler, John D.  et al.
US 8335345 B2	12/18/2012	Tracking an object with multiple asynchronous cameras	White; Marvin S. et al.
US 8218002 B2	7/10/2012	Method and apparatus providing computer generated images over a network with a point of view corresponding to images acquired during navigation of an imaging device	Maguire, Jr.; Francis J.
US 8330812 B2	12/11/2012	Method and apparatus for producing and storing, on a resultant non-transitory storage medium, computer generated (CG) video in correspondence with images acquired by an image acquisition device tracked in motion with respect to a 3D reference frame	Maguire, Jr.; Francis J.
US 8786415 B2	7/22/2014	Tracking system using proximity and/or presence	Cavallaro; Richard H. et al.
US 9215383 B2	12/15/2015	System for enhancing video from a mobile camera	Milnes; Kenneth A. et al.
US RE45062 E	8/5/2014	Apparatus for inducing attitudinal head movements for passive virtual reality	Maguire, Jr.; Francis J.
US 10290119 B2	5/14/2019	Multi view camera registration	White; Marvin S. et al.