Watch a 3-Hr Baseball Game in 45 Mins

That’s now possible, due to a new technology from a Sharp Electronics spinoff, called Sharp Technology Ventures.

The first technology to come out of the new company is called “High Impact Sports”, a way to summarize video content. “If you watch a baseball game it will last three hours and sometimes more,” said Jon Clemens, the lead executive at the new Sharp venture. “If you run it through our system, it automatically takes out things that aren’t baseball and it ends up lasting only 45 minutes.”

Potential licensees include sports networks such as ESPN or Fox that could sell abbreviated versions of games. Another possible group of licensees include personal video recorder makers such as Tivo.

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