Sporting Event Patents (Class 348/157)
  • Patent number: 12211054
    Abstract: Techniques to support human-machine interactions for public safety annotations are provided. Live streamed media that includes at least one of audio and video is received. The live streamed media is replicated. The replicated live streamed media is sent to at least two of an artificial intelligence bot and a human for annotation. A conflict between the annotations is detected. The conflict is resolved via an agency selected annotation conflict resolution policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Francesca Schuler, Christine K Rapala, Trent J Miller, Larry D Freeman
  • Patent number: 12208328
    Abstract: A plurality of information terminals present response information for machine learning. Explanatory information for the response information is input to the plurality of information terminals by a user. A server acquires the explanatory information and the response information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ida, Hiroshi Kitajima
  • Patent number: 12211257
    Abstract: This application relates to the artificial intelligence field, and provides an image processing method, an apparatus, and a system. The image processing method includes: obtaining a plurality of image blocks by segmenting a to-be-analyzed pathological image; inputting the plurality of image blocks to a first analysis model to obtain a first analysis result, where the first analysis model classifies each of the plurality of image blocks based on a quantity or an area of suspicious lesion components; inputting at least one second-type image block in the first analysis result to a second analysis model to obtain a second analysis result, where the second analysis model analyzes a location of a suspicious lesion component of each input second-type image block; and obtaining a final analysis result of the pathological image based on the first analysis result and the second analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yaoxin Li, Changzheng Zhang, Xiaoshi Chen, Dandan Tu
  • Patent number: 12194364
    Abstract: An athletic training system has a data recording system and a data engine. The data recording system is configured to record an athletic competition event. The event may have a first team of players competing against a second team of players. The data engine is configured to receive data associated with the recorded athletic competition event. The data engine processes the data and displays the data as a replay of the event in animated form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Tawiah
  • Patent number: 12192539
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method for synchronizing a mobile application to a video broadcast. A server platform is in communication with a plurality of user devices. The server platform retrieves and transmits data regarding a live broadcast event to the plurality of user devices and provides an interactive activity related to the live broadcast event. In one embodiment, in order to account for delays between the broadcasts of different players, the server platform utilizes at least one graphical element and/or at least one audiovisual element of the live broadcast event to generate separate delay pools for each of the plurality of user devices. The plurality of user devices include a mobile application showing sprites representing a plurality of players or objects in the live broadcast event, which are synchronized to a display device based on the delay pools for each of the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard J. Hall
  • Patent number: 12179059
    Abstract: A system for monitoring activity in a gym environment includes a monitoring system configured to identify human representations in the gym environment and track movement of the human representations; a transceiver unit for receiving communication signals within the gym environment; a waypoint transmitter arranged at a predetermined location in the gym environment and configured to transmit a near field wireless signal; a control system configured to assign a specific human representation to an electronic device, responsive to the monitoring system detecting presence of the specific human representation at said location at a point in time associated with reception in the electronic device of the near field wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jakob HÃ¥kansson, Axel Mulder
  • Patent number: 12175700
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a guide system, and a guide method that can set optimum movement routes depending on a situation. The guide method includes: a step of taking an image; a step of detecting persons from the taken image; a step of digitizing and estimating states of the detected persons; a step of creating map data in which the states of the persons are shown on a map according to positions of the persons in the taken image; a first area estimation step that estimates a first area on the basis of the map data; a step of setting movement routes for persons of the first area and/or persons of a second area other than the first area; a step of transmitting information about the set movement routes; and a step of receiving the transmitted information about the movement routes and presenting the received information about the movement routes and/or guidance information about routes based on the information about the movement routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunta Ego, Masahiro Terada, Daisuke Hayashi, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 12153326
    Abstract: An aerial movement system and method for calibrating same includes, generally, registration points and wireless position transceivers proximate the registration points and the object that communicate with a computer and allow for the computer to determine the appropriate amount of support lines to draw in or release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: CABLECAM, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Wharton
  • Patent number: 12134471
    Abstract: A technique is directed to methods and systems for providing drone-based assistance to a user. Drones may be utilized to aid users in performing tasks, such as assisting a user during an activity. The assistance can include providing a cooling flow of air, spraying a cooling mist of liquid, playing music, providing guidance, providing instructions, communicating with a device(s) to seek medical aid, retrieving sporting equipment, collecting performance metrics, collecting health metrics, or any assistance action. A user can connect to the drone via a device or using a set of built-in algorithms that employ biometric recognition to identify the user. Once activated and linked to the user, the drone can take flight. The drone can fly above, in front, or behind the user at a predetermined or adjustable height and provide airflow or mist from the drone blades to cool the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Zane C. Eaton
  • Patent number: 12125239
    Abstract: There is provided a system for detecting an object crossing a plane at high resolution from long range, the system including a first transmitter projecting a light plane using a light comprising a light plane wavelength, the light plane defining a boundary, wherein the light plane wavelength is not visible to the human eye, a first receiver for detecting a reflection of light when an object crosses the light plane defining the boundary, the receiver configured to detect light in a range of the electromagnetic spectrum including the light plane wavelength, wherein the receiver includes an image sensor comprising a plurality of sensor pixels, and an image processing computer configured to receive an input from the receiver including a recorded frame captured by the receiver, wherein the image processing computer processes the recorded frame for review to identify a frame showing an object crossing the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle McKenzie, Christopher David, Justin Nash, Matthew Cristina, Wesley Ian Falik
  • Patent number: 12106705
    Abstract: A display that contains a sparse array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), including a related system and method of fabrication are disclosed. The display includes at least one panel disposed in or on a transparent material to provide a display on one or both sides of the material. Each tile has a transparent flexible substrate, a sparse array of LEDs disposed on the transparent flexible substrate, a rigid substrate adhered to the transparent flexible substrate via an adhesive layer in which the sparse array of LEDs is encapsulated, and a driver disposed on an edge of the tile and configured to drive the LEDs. The LEDs are sparse enough to enable information to be displayed through the transparent material while still enabling a viewer to see through the transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Jude Moran, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt
  • Patent number: 12097422
    Abstract: An athletic training system has a data recording system and a data engine. The data recording system is configured to record an athletic competition event. The event may have a first team of players competing against a second team of players. The data engine is configured to receive data associated with the recorded athletic competition event. The data engine processes the data and displays the data as a replay of the event in animated form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Tawiah
  • Patent number: 12076616
    Abstract: A sports swing tracking system that has at least one computer processor, a camera system with a digital image sensor, the camera system operating at or greater than sixty frames per second at an exposure rate faster than one one-thousandth of a second. The sports swing tracking system also includes a distance calculating system designed to calculate the distance to an object of known size determined by a pixel array corresponding to the equivalent dimensions of the imaged object. The sports swing tracking system also includes a body frame pose estimator system designed to calculate the distance between each of thirteen or more body frame points and a motion mapping system designed to calculate changes in the three-dimensional location and attitude of at least one or more of the thirteen or more body frame points, an at least one ball point, and two or more points representing a sports instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Glen Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 12080073
    Abstract: A technology for remote object imaging processing. An example of the technology can include calculating geographic coordinates for an object using in part a line-of-sight distance to the object from a camera coupled to a vehicle, calculating an angle of the sun relative to the object using sun position data that corresponds to a time and date and the geographic coordinates for the object, determining a white balance setting based in part on the angle of the sun relative to the object, and applying the white balance setting as a parameter used to process an image of the object captured using the camera coupled to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Monty R. Mccoy
  • Patent number: 12046038
    Abstract: A system and method described herein is effective for generating automated visual analytics and player statistics for videos of sporting events. A dataset of videos is collected that comprises multiple teams. Training the networks on RGB and grayscale images affects the generalization ability of the network learned and augmenting more images using generative adversarial networks to the dataset helps further improves the performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Bir Bhanu, Rajkumar Theagarajan, Federico Pala, Xiu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12039874
    Abstract: A control method and device for an unmanned aerial vehicle, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The control method may include: acquiring shooting control information, the shooting control information including a height of a shooting target object, a mission height, and an overlapping ratio; determining the target flight route and a shooting interval based upon the shooting control information; and controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly according to the target flight route and to photograph the shooting target object according to the shooting interval by using a photographing device during the flight. The mission height may be a distance between a plane where a target flight route is located and a plane where the shooting target object is located, and a starting plane for computing the overlapping ratio may be the plane where the shooting target is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaiqiang Deng, Jiabin Liang, Weiwei Zhang, Sheng Huang, Yinzhuo Wang
  • Patent number: 12035066
    Abstract: An image providing system capable of quickly providing a plurality of different cropped images is disclosed. The image providing system acquires position information about a position of a user designated by the user. The image providing system determines a range of an image that was captured by an image capturing unit, the range corresponding to the position information as a cropping range, before the image capturing unit starts a series of image capturing in which the image capturing unit captures a plurality of images. After the series of image capturing is started, the system applies cropping that cuts out a part of a captured image based on the cropping range. During the series of image capturing, the system provides a cropped image to which the cropping has been applied in a way in which a user can obtain the cropped image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonobu Hiraishi, Koshi Tokunaga, Tomoki Kuroda, Junko Morikawa, Tokichi Minami
  • Patent number: 12026839
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a remote video platform, location data for an extended reality privacy control for visually segmenting an environment within a remote asset facility into a customer space comprising customer assets for a customer and a non-customer space, receiving, by the remote video platform, first video data representing the environment within the remote asset facility, augmenting, by the remote video platform based on the location data for the extended reality privacy control, the first video data with the extended reality privacy control to generate second video data having at least a portion of the non-customer space occluded with the extended reality privacy control, and outputting, by the remote video platform, the second video data for display at a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhivya Dhayakar, Akshey Nama
  • Patent number: 12020728
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein include a method implemented by a computing system, the method comprising: receiving tracking data associated with a tracked event and executing an automated video processing procedure including: (i) initiating one or more live video feeds of the tracked events; (ii) receiving a first live video feed of a first portion of the tracked event; (iii) selecting one or more segments of the received first live video feed for further processing; (iv) receiving a second live video feed of a second portion of the tracked event; (v) selecting one or more segments of the received second live video feed for further processing; (vi) modifying the selected one or more segments to improve performance of the automated video processing procedure; and (vii) compiling the modified one or more segments into a first video of the tracked event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Kyle Quinton Beatch
  • Patent number: 12015790
    Abstract: A method of encoding input data to generate corresponding encoded data is provided. The method includes encoding the input data into a plurality of symbols in the encoded data, wherein the plurality of symbols represent data as defined by at least one palette included in the encoded data. The method further includes compressing data representative of the at least one palette into compressed palette data in a lossless manner for inclusion into the encoded data, wherein palette entry values of the at least one palette are provided consecutively within the encoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: GURULOGIC MICROSYSTEMS OY
    Inventor: Ossi Kalevo
  • Patent number: 11998800
    Abstract: A method and system for providing shot tracking data to a client device is disclosed herein. The system includes multiple golf ball tracking sensors positioned at multiple golf driving ranges, multiple shot application programming interfaces (API), and a shot API proxy. Each of the shot APIs is configured to receive shot data from each of the golf ball tracking sensors at a corresponding golf driving range venue such as a TOPGOLF® entertainment venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Topgolf International, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan D. Stroud
  • Patent number: 11983306
    Abstract: A system configured to track the location of one or more peripherals operated by a user, the system comprising a tracking unit configured to determine a location of the one or more peripherals in dependence upon images captured by a camera associated with an HMD worn by the user, a generation unit configured to generate, in response to a determination by the tracking unit that one or more of the peripherals is not visible in the images, an array of home points behind the user, the home points being locations defined in dependence upon constraints upon the user's motion, an estimation unit configured to estimate the respective locations of non-visible peripherals in dependence upon the output of one or more inertial measurement units associated with each peripheral, and a selection unit configured to select a home point, from amongst the array of home points, for each of the non-visible peripherals, wherein the tracking unit is configured to generate a location for each non-visible peripheral such that the loc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
    Inventors: Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Simon Pilgrim, Steven Tattersall, Jose Rubio
  • Patent number: 11957419
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a synthetic (virtual) orthopedic treatment device (e.g. a virtual external fixator representing a physical fixator attachable to a patients anatomic structure) is displayed concurrently in two views (e.g. anterior-posterior and lateral) along corresponding digital medical images (e.g. X-rays), and rotation/translation user input received along one of the images is used to concurrently control both displays of the orthopedic treatment device to reflect the rotation/translation user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holding LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Haskell
  • Patent number: 11961046
    Abstract: A computing device includes a processor and a medium storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: in response to a receipt of an electronic request comprising one or more structured data fields and one or more unstructured data fields, identify a set of previous electronic requests using the one or more structured data fields of the received electronic request; train a probabilistic classification model using at least one structured data field of the identified set of previous electronic requests; execute the trained probabilistic classification model using the one or more unstructured data fields of the received electronic request; and automatically select a request handler using an output of the executed probabilistic classification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: Zhu Jing Wu, Xin-Yu Wang, Jin Wang, Chun-Hua Li, Zhen Cui
  • Patent number: 11935157
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to solving an issue arising when a background image is generated. An image processing system generates a foreground image containing a foreground object based on an image captured by an imaging apparatus included in a first imaging apparatus group. The image processing system generates a background image not containing the foreground object based on an image of the imaging region captured by an imaging apparatus included in a second imaging apparatus group different from the first imaging apparatus group. The image processing system generates a virtual viewpoint image based on the generated foreground image and background image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 11928226
    Abstract: A marking onto a collaboration board, located in a first location, is detected. The marking includes the creation of one or more content elements on the collaboration board. Responsive to detecting the markings one or more content elements on the collaboration board are analyzed. A first content element of the one or more content elements is classified based on analyzing the one or more content elements. The first content element is classified as a first privileged content element. The first location of the collaboration board is scanned. The scanning is based on the classifying of the first privileged content element. An unauthorized person is identified based on scanning the first location. The unauthorized person is not permitted to view the collaboration board. A security response is performed on the collaboration board regarding the one or more content elements. The security response is performed responsive to identifying the unauthorized person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Shikhar Kwatra, Sudhir Alluri, Manish Anand Bhide
  • Patent number: 11928914
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for simulating gameplay of a live event and placing wagers or non-wager submissions concerning an outcome of a simulation. The systems incorporate statistical data, event information, and user modifications to create the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Vinod Khosla
  • Patent number: 11907293
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, may detect and store activity in videos based on a spatiotemporal graph representation. Spatiotemporal proximity graphs may be built based on one or more received tracks and may include one or more nodes and each node may include one or more attributes associated with a corresponding entity. One or more spatiotemporal relationships may be identified between the entities based on each spatiotemporal proximity graph one or more activities of the entities may be identified based on the spatiotemporal relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CACI, Inc.—Federal
    Inventors: Zachary Jorgensen, Tyler Staudinger, Charles Viss
  • Patent number: 11890505
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting gestures of a swimmer in an aquatic environment such as a flume pool. In one embodiment, a pool system includes a set of cameras, one of which is an overhead camera positioned above the water in the pool to capture images of a swimmer. The system also includes computer processors, such as a GPU, CPU, and game engine which implement a computer vision platform. The processors are configured to receive images from the cameras, determine the swimmer's body position from the images, detect a defined gesture in the swimmer's body position, and in response to detecting the defined gesture, invoking a corresponding control operation of the flume pool, such as controlling water flow through the pool or updating an interface display which is projected onto the interior surfaces of the pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Real Big Waves LLC
    Inventors: George Reid Evans, Jeffrey Scott White, Marcelo Ortega, Enzo Pacilio
  • Patent number: 11861848
    Abstract: A system and method of generating trackable frames from a broadcast video feed are provided herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a set of frames for classification using a principal component analysis model. The set of frames are a subset of the plurality of video frames. The computing system partitions each frame of the set of frames into a plurality of clusters. The computing system classifies each frame of the plurality of frames as trackable or untrackable. Trackable frames capture a unified view of the sporting event. The computing system compares each cluster to a predetermined threshold to determine whether each cluster comprises at least a threshold number of trackable frames. The computing system classifies each cluster that includes at least the threshold number of trackable frames as trackable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Long Sha, Sujoy Ganguly, Xinyu Wei, Patrick Joseph Lucey, Aditya Cherukumudi
  • Patent number: 11863800
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Bradley Burkhart, Peter Christian Maurer
  • Patent number: 11842597
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including providing a mobile coffee kiosk for automated beverage preparation and serving for customer orders placed wirelessly and on digital touch screens, utilizing a mobile coffee kiosk network for receiving and processing customer orders made from a mobile coffee kiosk app, providing a Wi-Fi communication device and cellular communication device for receiving customer orders from the mobile coffee kiosk network, preparing customer orders automatically received from the mobile coffee kiosk network, verifying a customer ID with a customer order pick-up identification system before the ordered beverage is served to the customer, transmitting automatically a customer order pick-up to the mobile coffee kiosk network, tracking beverage ingredient inventory automatically for reporting ready status on beverage menu selections availability to the mobile coffee kiosk network, and providing an automated sensor system for detecting and reporting contamination presence in the beverage
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Bruce Alexander Long, II
  • Patent number: 11805283
    Abstract: A computing system automatically extracting, from a digital video frame, scoreboard information including a first team name, a second team name, a first score, and a second score. The computing system (a) detects, within the digital video frame, a plurality of frame regions based on each detected frame region depicting text; (b) selects, from the detected frame regions, a set of frame regions based on the frame regions of the selected set cooperatively having a geometric arrangement that corresponds with a candidate geometric arrangement of the scoreboard information; (c) recognizes characters respectively within each of the frame regions of the selected set of frame regions; (d) based at least on the recognized characters in the frame regions of the selected set, detects the scoreboard information; and (e) records the detected scoreboard information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott, Markus Kurt Peter Cremer, Nishit Umesh Parekh, Dewey Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11792517
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of tracking poses of a rolling-shutter camera in an augmented reality (AR) system is provided. The method and apparatus use camera information and inertial sensor readings from Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to estimate the pose of the camera at a reference line. Thereafter, relative pose changes at scanlines may be calculated using the inertial sensor data. The estimated reference pose of the camera is then further refined based on the visual information from the camera, the relative pose changes and the optimized reference line pose of a previous image. Thereafter, the estimate of the scanline poses may be updated using the relative pose changes obtained in the earlier steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Halmetschlager-Funek, Jeroen Hol, Matthias Kalkgruber, Nikolaj Kuntner, Daniel Wolf
  • Patent number: 11785346
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes an exposure section and a controller. The controller controls, at an exposure timing based on a predicted exposure timing at which a state of a subject shot at a first frame rate is predicted to satisfy a predetermined condition, the exposure section at a second frame rate. The second frame rate is different from the first frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Noguchi, Daisuke Nakao, Jiro Takatori, Hiroaki Ebi
  • Patent number: 11779809
    Abstract: A method and system for providing shot tracking data to a client device is disclosed herein. The system includes multiple golf ball tracking sensors positioned at multiple golf driving ranges, multiple shot application programming interfaces (API), and a shot API proxy. Each of the shot APIs is configured to receive shot data from each of the golf ball tracking sensors at a corresponding golf driving range venue such as a TOPGOLF® entertainment venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Topgolf International, Inc.
    Inventor: Ethan D. Stroud
  • Patent number: 11771957
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for 3D flight tracking of objects include a method including determining a three dimensional trajectory based on initial observations, extrapolating the three dimensional trajectory backward in time to generate an extrapolated trajectory, calculating distance measures between the extrapolated trajectory and defined physical locations, waiting for additional observations when none of the distance measures satisfy a threshold distance, identifying one of the defined physical locations as an origin when only one of the distance measures satisfies the threshold distance and an error measure satisfies a predefined criteria, identifying one of the defined physical locations as the origin when two of the distance measures satisfy the threshold distance and only one of first and second error measures satisfies the predefined criteria, and waiting for additional observations when neither the first error measure nor the second error me
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Topgolf Sweden AB
    Inventors: Joakim John Magnus Hugmark, Daniel Forsgren, Anton Mikael Jansson
  • Patent number: 11771996
    Abstract: A method and system for verifying a client device's location in a parallel reality game hosted by a server. The client transmits its location to the server and receives verification instructions comprising a landmark and a verification pathway. The client prompts a player to capture image data of the landmark and, in response, receives a first set of image data of the landmark from an initial perspective. The client determines whether the first set of image data matches to the landmark before prompting the player to move along the verification pathway while capturing image data. The client receives a second set of image data of the landmark from a moving perspective. The client determines whether the second set of image data matches to an expected change in perspective of the landmark. Upon completion of the verification instructions, the client confirms to the server the client's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NIANTIC, INC.
    Inventor: Hansong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11763467
    Abstract: A multi-camera architecture for detecting and tracking a ball in real-time. The multi-camera architecture includes network interface circuitry to receive a plurality of real-time videos taken from a plurality of high-resolution cameras. Each of the high-resolution cameras simultaneously captures a sports event, wherein each of the plurality of high-resolution cameras includes a viewpoint that covers an entire playing field where the sports event is played. The multi-camera architecture further includes one or more processors coupled to the network interface circuitry and one or more memory devices coupled to the one or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tong, Chen Ling, Ming Lu, Qiang Li, Wenlong Li, Yikai Fang, Yumeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11758238
    Abstract: The present disclosure presents an improved system and method for displaying wind characteristics and effects in a broadcast. The method comprises utilizing a camera to record a broadcast, determining wind characteristics relative to the broadcast, and rendering graphics in a broadcast displaying the wind. In exemplary embodiments, wind is sampled via at least one sampling point in a venue and wind characteristics are displayed in the broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FOX SPORTS PRODUCTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Davies, Zachary Fields, David Eric Shanks
  • Patent number: 11717737
    Abstract: An athletic training system (200) has a data recording system (202) and a data engine (204). The data recording system (202) is configured to record an athletic competition event. The event may have a first team of players competing against a second team of players. The data engine (204) is configured to receive data associated with the recorded athletic competition event. The data engine (204) processes the data and displays the data as a replay of the event in animated form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Tawiah
  • Patent number: 11710317
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-program products used for assessing athletic ability and generating performance data. In one embodiment, athlete performance data is generated through computer-vision analysis of video of an athletic performing, e.g., during practice or gameplay. The generated performance data for the athlete may include, for example, maximum speed, maximum acceleration, time to maximum speed, transition time (e.g., time to change direction), closing speed (e.g., time to close the distance to another athlete), average separation (e.g., between the athlete and another athlete), play-making ability, athleticism (e.g., a weighted computation and/or combination of multiple metrics), and/or other performance data. This performance data may be used to generate and/or update a profile associated with the athlete, which can be utilized for recruiting, scouting, comparing, and/or assessing athletes with greater efficiency and precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Recruiting Analytics LLC
    Inventors: Corey Leon Yates, Alfonzo Thurman, II
  • Patent number: 11694340
    Abstract: A display method including the steps of: acquiring, at a first predetermined frequency, a first series of one-spatial-dimensional instant images of the finish line of a race; simultaneously acquiring a second series of two spatial-dimensional instant images of the same finish line (19) at a second predetermined frequency; forming a temporal image (10) of the photo finish type from the first series of instant images; choosing an instant (15, 22) of the temporal image (10); analysing a two-spatial-dimensional image of the second series, the image being correlated with the selected instant (15, 22) to determine at least one distance; and displaying the analysed two-dimensional image with the determined distance or distances. Also, a display system for implementing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SWISS TIMING LTD
    Inventors: Fabien Blondeau, Pascal Richard
  • Patent number: 11677990
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Bradley Burkhart, Peter Christian Maurer
  • Patent number: 11663788
    Abstract: A system or method includes a platform to allow users to coordinate images captured by a separated camera with images captured by a first camera, displaying such images at real-time to a user through a user interface on the first camera or a user interface on a separate device. The separate camera is contemplated to provide a separate image feed to provide one or more augmentations to an image captured by the first camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Wormhole Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Hutten, Robert D. Fish
  • Patent number: 11657595
    Abstract: An imaging device may capture images of a scene, where the scene includes retroreflective materials. Where visual images and depth images are captured from a scene, and the depth images have ratios of supersaturated pixels that are less than a predetermined threshold, a location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the depth images. Where the ratios are greater than the predetermined threshold, the location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the visual images. Additionally, where each of a plurality of imaging devices detect concentrations of supersaturated pixels beyond a predetermined threshold or limit within their respective fields of view, an actor present on the scene may be determined to be wearing retroreflective material, or otherwise designated as a source of the supersaturation, and tracked with the scene based on coverage areas that are determined to have excessive ratios of supersaturated pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Nathan Hallman, Petko Tsonev, Michael Francis O'Malley, Jayakrishnan Eledath, Jue Wang, Tian Lan
  • Patent number: 11645841
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may identify a user viewpoint of a user at a first venue, match a viewpoint at a second venue to the user viewpoint of the user at the first venue, detect a trigger condition to provide visual content of the second venue to the user at the first venue, obtain the visual content of the second venue, wherein the visual content of the second venue is obtained from the viewpoint at the second venue, and provide the visual content of the second venue to an augmented reality device of the user at the first venue, where the augmented reality device presents the visual content of the second venue as a visual overlay within a field of view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Barrett Kreiner, James Pratt, Adrianne Binh Luu, Robert T. Moton, Jr., Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 11622716
    Abstract: A physiological monitoring system can use physiological wearable monitors to collect and/or detect various parameters, such as cough, wheeze, heart rate, skin temperature, activity, respiration rate, skin impedance, electro-cardiogram data, blood pressure, galvanic skin response, and the like. One or more of these parameters, or other such parameters, may be used in methods in the fields of lung cancer, physiotherapy, monitoring disabled or challenged individuals, monitoring end of life conditions, monitoring breathing gas usage, monitoring patients and individual wellness, data acquisition, athletic sports monitoring, athletic sports entertainment, virtual reality feedback, telemedicine, hospital aid, illness detection and its severity, and public service, as examples. Such methods can use data from one or more wearable devices with the appropriate data processing to present the user or healthcare provider with the appropriate analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: HEALTH CARE ORIGINALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jared Dwarika, Sharon Samjitsingh
  • Patent number: 11593581
    Abstract: A system and method of calibrating moving cameras capturing a sporting event is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system labels, via a neural network, components of a playing surface captured in each video frame. The computing system matches a subset of labeled video frames to a set of templates with various camera perspectives. The computing system fits a playing surface model to the set of labeled video frames that were matched to the set of templates. The computing system identifies camera motion in each video frame using an optical flow model. The computing system generates a homography matrix for each video frame based on the fitted playing surface model and camera motion. The computing system calibrates each camera based on the homography matrix generated for each video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Long Sha, Sujoy Ganguly, Xinyu Wei, Patrick Joseph Lucey, Aditya Cherukumudi
  • Patent number: 11583746
    Abstract: A method, including scanning a golf club to obtain scanning information; inputting the scanning information into a processing system; using at least one camera positioned behind and in-line to a golf swing direction and at least one lighting unit to obtain a series of images of a golf club during the golf swing; converting the series of images into parameterized motion representations; using at least one radar to obtain a radar signal; inputting the parameterized motion representations and the radar signal into the processing system; receiving golf club parameters and golf swing parameters as an output of the processing system; and generating a visual model of the golf club and the golf swing in a virtual space using the golf club parameters and the golf swing parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: RAPSODO PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Batuhan Okur, Lodiya Radhakrishnan Vijayanand