Sporting Event Patents (Class 348/157)
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Patent number: 10068004Abstract: A method of identifying the occurrence of one or more organized athletic events including a plurality of participants is disclosed. The method includes receiving athletic activity data for the participants from a plurality of athletic activity monitoring devices carried by the participants. The received athletic activity data defines workouts performed by the participants. The method further includes defining a plurality of parameters for the athletic activity data, wherein the parameters define common athletic activity data for the participants of each of the organized athletic events. In addition, the method includes clustering the athletic activity data into one or more clusters of workouts based on the defined parameters for the athletic activity data. Furthermore, the method includes identifying the one or more organized athletic events based on the one or more clusters of workouts.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.Inventor: Kyler Maxwell Eastman
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Patent number: 10052542Abstract: A system for coordinating radar data and image data to track a flight of a projectile includes a radar, an imager, and a controller. The imager provides an image of an area into which a projectile is to be launched. The controller receives the image and an identification of a target within the image and identifies a target line connecting the target and a launch position of the projectile. The controller also receives data from the radar relative to at least a portion of a trajectory of the projectile, generates image based trajectory data by correlating the radar data and the image, and alters the image to include the image based trajectory data within the image and the target line within the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: TRACKMAN A/SInventors: Fredrik Tuxen, Frederik Ettrup Brink
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Patent number: 10050650Abstract: An example disclosed method for registering an unregistered radio frequency (RF) location tag carried by a participant includes receiving blink data from an unregistered RF location tag; determining a tag location based on the blink data received from the unregistered RF location tag; directing a camera to view the tag location determined based on the blink data received from the unregistered RF location tag; identifying a participant at the tag location using image data obtained by the camera; and registering the unregistered RF location tag with the identified participant.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ZIH Corp.Inventors: James J. O'Hagan, Rodrigo G. Alonso, Michael A. Wohl
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Patent number: 10051293Abstract: A temporary video or multimedia distribution system set up in a venue receives multiple video streams and transcodes them into a single stream of data packets with each of the plurality of video data packets for respective ones of the video streams being assigned a port number corresponding to the respective video stream. The data packets are routed to a plurality of Access Points (APs) for transmission. At least a portion of the APs may be temporarily installed before an event and removed following the event. A User Equipment (UE) communicates with the APs and selects one of the video streams for viewing on the UE by selecting the port number corresponding to the desired video stream. The UE can “change channels” to view other video streams by changing the port number to the port number of the desired video stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Mobilitie, LLCInventors: Gary B. Jabara, Lloyd Frederick Linder, David Brett Simon
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Patent number: 10027873Abstract: A method substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A device substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: The Invention Science Fund II, LLCInventors: Ehren Brav, Russell Hannigan, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, 3ric Johanson, Jordin T. Kare, Tony S Pan, Phillip Rutschman, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Patent number: 10009643Abstract: An apparatus and method pertaining to transmitting media content recorded by a media recorder in combination with metadata. That metadata can include information regarding one or more of technical information regarding the media recorder (such as, but not limited to, information that categorically characterizes the media recorder as regards a type of media recorder and/or information regarding technical specifications for the media recorder), orientation information regarding the media recorder when recording the media content (such as, but not limited to, information that corresponds to a field of view when recording the media content), and parameter settings regarding the media recorder when recording the media content (such as, but not limited to, information regarding selectively variable parameters such as zoom settings and digital imaging sensitivity settings).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: David Stuart Furbeck
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Patent number: 9999806Abstract: Activities, actions and events during user performance of physical activity may be detected using various algorithms and templates. Templates may include an arrangement of one or more states that may identify particular event types and timing between events. Templates may be specific to a particular type of activity (e.g., types of sports, drills, events, etc.), user, terrain, time of day and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Santoshkumar Balakrishnan, Jordan M. Rice, Steven H. Walker, Adam S. Carroll, Corey C. Dow-Hygelund, Aaron K. Goodwin, James M. Mullin, Tye L. Rattenbury, Joshua M. Rooke-Ley, John M. Schmitt
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Patent number: 9998714Abstract: A device and a method for detecting, monitoring and/or controlling racing vehicles on a racetrack, having a camera for monitoring when a predetermined track section is crossed, a recording device for recording the images provided by the camera, a recording control device for automatically recording the images provided by the camera only during a specific time window within which the crossing of the track section, and a sensor device for detecting the crossing of the track section. A marking device generates a marking for a recorded image as a function of a sensor signal of the sensor device and the occurrence thereof in the specific time window. The marking is stored in an event list. An image of interest can be simply selected on the basis of the associated marking, without the images which are provided by the camera having to be evaluated themselves for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: Peter Platzer
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Patent number: 9990125Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a mobile terminal including a body having a front surface, a rear surface and a lateral surface thereof, a display unit disposed on the front surface to display first screen information, a lateral touch sensing unit formed on the lateral surface adjacent to both edges of the display unit to receive a user's consecutive touch input, and a controller configured to control the display unit to display second screen information in one region on the display unit corresponding to a touch range of the consecutive touch input.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Egun Jung, Hongseok Choi, Haein Lee, Eun Kwon, Yeongnam Ahn
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Patent number: 9955060Abstract: System and Method to adjust the orientation of a mobile video camera suited to film a pair of athletes moving on a field of play, wherein the position of the athletes is determined relative to a coordinate system integral to the field of play by using radio transmitters, which are applied to the bodies of the athletes, and radio receivers arranged around the field of play, and fixed relative to the field of play and interfaced with a processing and control unit, the processing and control unit determines an intermediate position between the two athletes as a function of the current positions of two athletes, and a motor-driven moving device moves the mobile video camera so as to center the respective camera framing on the intermediate position.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: 01WIRING S.R.L.Inventor: Ivano Corsini
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Patent number: 9940724Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method and a system for detecting multiple objects from real-time images are provided. The method comprises: performing, using a CPU host, an image segmentation process to divide real-time input images into a plurality of image partitions; performing, by multiple GPUs, a fast block-wise registration process, a mark setting process, a background generation process, a foreground generation process based on a Hyper-Q computation infrastructure, and a support vector machine classification process; and generating, by the CPU host, visualization classification images.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTELLIGENT FUSION TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Bin Jia, Kui Liu, Sixiao Wei, Erik Blasch, Carolyn Sheaff, Haibin Ling, Genshe Chen
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Patent number: 9942471Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an expectation condition information acquisition section; a requisite condition information acquisition section; a photographing apparatus state information acquisition section; an object state information acquisition section; and a photographing apparatus selection section as defined herein, the requisite condition requires that the plurality of objects are not overlapped with each other, and the photographing apparatus selection section has: an expectation condition determination section that carries out expectation condition determination processing to determine whether a photographic image captured by each of the plurality of photographing apparatuses satisfies at least one of the plurality of expectation conditions or not; and a requisite condition determination section that carries out requisite condition determination processing to determine whether or not a photographic image that has been determined to satisfy at least one of the plurality of expectationType: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun Shingu
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Patent number: 9942583Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include accepting input of a request for a particular image of a scene that is larger than the particular image, transmitting the request for the particular image to an image sensor array that includes more than one image sensor and that is configured to capture the scene and retain a subset of the scene that includes the request for the particular image of the scene, receiving only the particular image from the image sensor array, wherein the particular image represents a subset of the scene, and wherein a size characteristic of the particular image is at least partially based on a property of a requestor, and presenting the received particular image to the requestor. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: The Invention Science Fund II, LLCInventors: Ehren Brav, Russell Hannigan, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, 3ric Johanson, Jordin T. Kare, Tony S Pan, Phillip Rutschman, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Patent number: 9934593Abstract: Provided is a status determination system which can easily and reliably acquire status information on a monitor screen from the monitor screen. A status determination system 1 includes: image acquisition unit 10 which captures a screen of a monitor X via an adapter device W and acquires the screen as an image; image determination unit 20 which determines whether or not the image is an image from which status information is to be acquired; color information acquisition unit 30 which acquires color information at a specific point on the image when it is determined that the image is an image front which status information is to be acquired; and status conversion unit 40 which converts the acquired color information at the specific point to the status information.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: BICLICK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Owada, Kengo Tanaka
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Patent number: 9936234Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adaptively gather audience information data are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus monitor system factor(s) and select one or more sensors from a plurality of sensors positioned to gather audience measurement data based on the monitored factor(s). Thus, the disclosed methods and apparatus adapt to the conditions they face by selecting an amount and/or type of audience measurement data they gather.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Paul M. Mears, Arun Ramaswamy
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Patent number: 9924109Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include capturing a scene that includes one or more images, through use of an array of more than one image sensor, selecting a particular portion of the scene that includes at least one image, wherein the selected particular portion is smaller than the scene, transmitting only the selected particular portion from the scene to a remote location, and de-emphasizing pixels from the scene that are not part of the selected particular portion of the scene. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: The Invention Science Fund II, LLCInventors: Ehren Brav, Russell Hannigan, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, 3ric Johanson, Jordin T. Kare, Tony S Pan, Phillip Rutschman, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Patent number: 9884247Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a gaming device configured to record gaming activity, a method of processing the recorded gaming activity to analyze player behavior, and a system including the gaming device. The gaming device may include a gaming display to display gaming events played on the gaming device by a player during a gaming session, a player interface panel including a plurality of gaming buttons and a game initiating button configured to initiate the gaming events, and a game processor configured to record each activity between the player and the gaming device, wherein each recorded activity is associated with a time stamp.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: PATENT INVESTMENT & LICENSING COMPANYInventor: John F. Acres
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Patent number: 9866881Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include accepting input of a request for a particular image of a scene that is larger than the particular image, transmitting the request for the particular image to an image sensor array that includes more than one image sensor and that is configured to capture the scene and retain a subset of the scene that includes the request for the particular image of the scene, receiving only the particular image from the image sensor array, wherein the particular image represents a subset of the scene, and wherein a size characteristic of the particular image is at least partially based on a property of a requestor, and presenting the received particular image to the requestor. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: ELWHA, LLCInventors: Ehren Brav, Russell Hannigan, 3ric Johanson, Phillip Rutschman
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Patent number: 9866765Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include capturing a scene that includes one or more images, through use of an array of more than one image sensor, selecting a particular portion of the scene that includes at least one image, wherein the selected particular portion is smaller than the scene, transmitting only the selected particular portion from the scene to a remote location, and de-emphasizing pixels from the scene that are not part of the selected particular portion of the scene. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: ELWHA, LLCInventors: Ehren Brav, Russell Hannigan, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, 3ric Johanson, Jordin T. Kare, Tony S Pan, Phillip Rutschman, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
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Patent number: 9855481Abstract: A system for illustrating the flight of a sports ball includes a radar, an imager, and a controller. The imager is configured to image a moving sports ball. The controller is configured to (i) receive, from the imager, an image including the moving sports ball, (ii) receive, from the radar, radar data associated with the moving sports ball, (iii) determine, from the radar data, a portion of a trajectory of the moving sports ball, (iv) alter the image to illustrate the portion of the trajectory relative to the moving sports ball, and (v) output the altered image.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: TRACKMAN A/SInventors: Fredrik Tuxen, Frederik Ettrup Brink
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Patent number: 9852333Abstract: The invention relates to a system for detecting a user-dependent state of a sports object, comprising a detection device (101) for detecting a plurality of positions of the sports object, and a determination device (103) for determining the state of the sports object based on the plurality of positions detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: FRAUNHOFER—GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventor: Matthias Lochmann
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Patent number: 9826013Abstract: It is possible to capture video information using one or more body mounted cameras, to transmit that information over a wireless communication channel, and to process that information, such as by using angular momentum information captured by gyroscopes, to obtain an image which is suitable for viewing in real time. This technology can be applied in a variety of contexts, such as sporting events, and can also be applied to information which is captured and stored for later use, either in addition to, or as an alternative to, streaming that information for real time viewing. Such video information can be captured by components fully enclosed within a hat clip enclosure that is mountable on a brim of a hat.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Action Streamer, LLCInventors: Christopher S. McLennan, Edward Jay Harnish, II
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Patent number: 9786064Abstract: A multi-camera control apparatus and method to maintain a location and a size of an object in a continuous viewpoint switching service are provided. The multi-camera control method of controlling a main camera configured to capture a moving object of interest and controlling at least one sub-camera configured to capture the object of interest at a different viewpoint from that of the main camera, may include extracting the object of interest from a first image generated by the main camera, controlling a capturing scheme of the main camera based on a change in a location and a size of the extracted object of interest, projecting the object of interest onto a second image generated by the sub-camera, and controlling a capturing scheme of the sub-camera based on a change in a location and a size of the projected object of interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Gi Mun Um, Kwang Yong Kim, Yoo Kyung Kim, Won Ryu, Il Gu Jung
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Patent number: 9774842Abstract: An imaging device for a photo finish system, including a first camera aligned on a finish line and a mechanism for display of three dimensional stereoscopic images.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Swiss Timing LtdInventor: Pascal Richard
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Patent number: 9753119Abstract: A system may utilize sound localization techniques, such as time-difference-of-arrival techniques, to estimate an audio-based sound source position from which a sound originates. An optical image or depth map of an area containing the sound source location may then captured and analyzed to detect an object that is known or expected to have produced the sound. The position of the object may also be determined based on the analysis of the optical image or depth map. The position of the sound source may then be determined based at least in part on the position of the detected object or on a combination of the audio-based sound source position and the determined position of the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kavitha Velusamy, Ning Yao, Wai Chung Chu, Sowmya Gopalan, Qiang Liu, Rahul Agrawal, Manika Puri
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Patent number: 9747870Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for generating a graphic and superimposing the generated graphic on a second image generated from a cut-out of a first image of a scene, the cut-out representing the field of view of a virtual camera, the device comprising: receiver circuitry configured to receive the second image and a set of cut-out corner coordinates; homography determining circuitry configured to determine, a homography between coordinates of the first 2D coordinate system defined within the cut-out and coordinates of a second 2D coordinate system defined for the second image; feature determining circuitry configured to determine a feature of the virtual 3D map of the scene within the field of view of the virtual camera; graphic generator circuitry configured to generate the graphic from the determined feature of the virtual 3D map; and graphic superimposing circuitry configured to superimpose the generated graphic on the second image.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Clive Henry Gillard, Michael John Williams, Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Paul Edward Prayle
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Patent number: 9736375Abstract: A system and a method for stabilizing a data stream from an in-flight object may provide at least one video camera that may be embedded in the object. A data stream of the at least one video camera may be processed and produce an output video that may be stabilized and configured for broadcasting an action. The output video may provide an orientation that may provide an accurate view of the action. An object imaging system may be provided to receive the data stream from the at least one video camera, and a video processing server may be provided to process the data stream. The object imaging system may provide a wide angular field of view that may provide clear images for the output video.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Joshua R&D Technologies, LLCInventor: David Pickett
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Patent number: 9723182Abstract: A received image displaying apparatus comprises: a wireless communication unit that wirelessly receives the frame images transmitted by the image transmitting apparatus with which the received image displaying apparatus has established a connection of wireless communication; and a displaying unit that displays the frame images, which were wirelessly received by the wireless communication unit, in an order in which the frame images were captured.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Toyoda, Shinya Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9715740Abstract: A method of recognizing motion of an object may include periodically obtaining depth data of a first resolution and two-dimensional data of a second resolution with respect to a scene using an image capturing device, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution; determining a motion tracking region by recognizing a target object in the scene based on the depth data, such that the motion tracking region corresponds to a portion of a frame and the portion includes the target object; periodically obtaining tracking region data of the second resolution corresponding to the motion tracking region; and/or analyzing the motion of the target object based on the tracking region data.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-Gu Jin, Jung-Seop Kim, Dong-Wook Kwon, Kyung-Il Kim, Min Ho Kim, Gi-Sang Lee, Sang-Bo Lee, Jin-Kyung Lee, Jin-Wuk Choi
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Patent number: 9697424Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards communicating image-related data between a base station and/or one or more satellite computing devices, e.g., tablet computers and/or smartphones. A satellite device captures image data and communicates image-related data (such as the images or depth data processed therefrom) to another device, such as a base station. The receiving device uses the image-related data to enhance depth data (e.g., a depth map) based upon the image data captured from the satellite device, which may be physically closer to something in the scene than the base station, for example. To more accurately capture depth data in various conditions, an active illumination pattern may be projected from the base station or another external projector, whereby satellite units may use the other source's active illumination and thereby need not consume internal power to benefit from active illumination.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Adam G. Kirk, Oliver A. Whyte, Christoph Rhemann, Shahram Izadi
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Patent number: 9686452Abstract: A surveillance camera arrangement includes a first camera that performs panning movements about a pan axis, and that performs tilting movements within a plane of tilting motion. The plane of tilting motion is offset from, and substantially parallel to, the pan axis. A second camera is substantially aligned with the pan axis. The second camera has a wider field of view than the first camera.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Theodore L Jones
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Patent number: 9684830Abstract: Techniques related to automatic target object selection from multiple tracked objects for imaging devices are discussed. Such techniques may include generating one or more object selection metrics such as accumulated distances from frame center, accumulated velocities, and trajectory comparisons of predicted to actual trajectories for tracked objects and selecting the target object based on the object selection metric or metrics.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Tae-Hoon Kim, Minje Park
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Patent number: 9655027Abstract: An event venue with a performance area (e.g., a stage, a sport field, a sport court) and an eventgoer area (e.g., a stadium seating section, a bleacher section) may include beacons and cameras throughout the performance area. The beacons and cameras may each record event occurrence data (e.g., images, audio, video, or some combination thereof) of particular occurrences (e.g., sport goals, sport fouls, songs played) during an event (e.g., sports game, concert) at the event venue. The beacons and cameras may send this event occurrence data to a transmission system. The transmission system may convert the event occurrence data from a first format to a second format, and then may output the event occurrence data in the second format through one or more local wireless transmitters. Eventgoers in the transmission zones of these transmitters may then receive the event occurrence data at their mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: PROSPORTS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: John Cronin
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Patent number: 9630059Abstract: The present invention provides group performance monitoring systems and methods. In one exemplary embodiment, a group monitoring device includes a display configured to display, during an athletic activity, a plurality of individual performance metrics relating to a plurality of individuals engaged in the athletic activity, each individual performance metric relating to one of the plurality of individuals; and an input to manipulate the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Meg Susan Burich, Qaizar Hassonjee, Roger Armitage, Markus Strecker, Hagen Diesterbeck
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Patent number: 9633434Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for determining camera calibration data. The computer system receives geo-positional data of a moving object, wherein the geo-positional data is associated with an indicator (112). The computer system receives further a sequence of frames (140) from the at least one camera (150), wherein at least one frame has a picture of the moving object (118) with a structure and with an encoded version of the indicator which are optically recognizable. The indicator associated with the at least one frame is extracted by decoding (170) the optically encoded version of the indicator of the at least one frame. The geo-positional data of the moving object which is in the picture of the at least one frame is obtained by matching (172) the indicator associated with the geo-positional data of the moving object and the decoded indicator associated with the at least one frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: AGT INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Markus Schlattmann, Ulf Blanke
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Patent number: 9621667Abstract: A server machine may create a network connection to a device and receive a request to stream media that is managed by a different server machine. The server machine that created the network connection may be unaware of the location of the media at the time the network connection is created, and the location of the media may remain unknown to this server machine until the location is identified by the request, which may be received at runtime. In response to this request, the server machine that created the network connection may communicate with the different server machine and function as an intermediary in routing a stream of data between the device and the different server machine. In example embodiments where certain media is managed by the other server machine, the server machine may retrieve the media and stream it to the device using the created network connection.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Rajnikanth Codavalli
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Patent number: 9609384Abstract: In one aspect, a system for detecting and classifying direct response advertisements includes an advertisement candidate segment generation unit for generating an advertisement candidate segment for an advertisement section detected from a broadcast stream, a matching unit for determining whether the advertisement candidate segment matches an advertisement segment stored in an advertisement database (DB), a direct response advertisement determination unit for determining whether the advertisement candidate segment is a direct response advertisement if it is determined by the matching unit that an advertisement segment matching the advertisement candidate segment is not present, and a direct response advertisement grouping unit for grouping the advertisement candidate segment with advertisement segments that are direct response advertisements stored in the advertisement DB.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Enswers Co., LTDInventors: Jaehyung Lee, Ji-hoon Song, Hoon-Young Cho, Kil-youn Kim, David Lonjon
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Patent number: 9600760Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for utilizing motion fields to predict evolution in dynamic scenes. One aspect provides for accessing active object position data including positioning information of a plurality of individual active objects; extracting a plurality of individual active object motions from the active object position data; constructing a motion field using the plurality of individual active object motions; and using the motion field to predict one or more points of convergence at one or more spatial locations that active objects are proceeding towards at a future point in time. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Irfan Aziz Essa, Matthias Grundmann, Jessica Kate Hodgins, Kihwan Kim, Iain Alexander Matthews, Ariel Shamir
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Patent number: 9602685Abstract: An information processing apparatus that generates learning data used in learning a classification rule for classifying an image that is input from an image input device. A reception unit receives an initial image that is input from the image input device. A first generation unit generates an image that is different from the initial image, by correcting the initial image using a coefficient determined based on information about a type of the input device. A second generation unit generates the learning data using the image generated by the first generation unit and the input image. A learning unit generates the classification rule using the learning data generated by the second generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Miyauchi, Junya Arakawa
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Patent number: 9588215Abstract: Methods and systems for real-time object tracking and data aggregation in panoramic video are disclosed. An example method provides receiving, at a first device, panoramic video data of at least one asset derived from at least one panoramic video camera; receiving tracking data related to the at least one asset from a tracking system; augmenting the panoramic video data by embedding it with the tracking data; and streaming the augmented panoramic video data over a network connection to at least one other device. Other methods and systems are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: C360 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian C. Lowry, Evan A. Wimer, Joseph B. Tomko
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Patent number: 9571903Abstract: Systems and methods for providing ball tracker snippets are provided. Data may be received over a wireless communication regarding movement of a ball within an event venue during an event. Such received data may be based on signals from an antenna coupled to the ball. A video of the event may be synchronized to the received data. A portion of the received data may be identified as meeting a threshold. A portion of the video may be determined to be associated with the identified portion of received data that meets the threshold. A video snippet may then be extracted for the determined portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: ProSports Technologies, LLCInventors: John Cronin, Nick Reasner
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Patent number: 9559701Abstract: A power feeding apparatus includes a power feeding stop section that stops, all together, the supply of electric power to a plurality of sensors connected to the power feeding apparatus. Each of the sensors outputs a signal including timing information indicating the timing at which the supply of electric power is stopped by the power feeding stop section. A synchronization section synchronizes the output signals of the plurality of sensors based on the timing information.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazuo Nomura
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Patent number: 9555310Abstract: An on-demand sports video streaming service generates live broadcasts of sporting events with an automated video capture system. Multiple cameras automatically which track game play are controlled to create a combined output. Game event data, including scoreboard information, audible queues or visual queues are implemented to assist in directing and controlling video content and to provide scoring, timing or player information into the video output.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Maxx Holdings, Inc.Inventors: James A. Aman, Paul Michael Bennett
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Patent number: 9547802Abstract: This disclosure provides an image composition system and its method. The system includes: an image capturing unit configured for capturing at least one first image of a real object; a depth information generating unit disposed on the image capturing unit and configured for measuring a depth information between the depth information generating unit and the real object; a computing unit receiving the at least one first image and the depth information, performing the computation of removing a noise caused by a moving object other than the real object from the received depth information, and computing a moving trajectory of the image capturing unit; and a composition unit compositing the at least one first image and a second image of a virtual scene, and display the composited result on a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Kun-Lung Tseng, Wei-Jia Huang, An-Chun Luo
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Patent number: 9531984Abstract: A terminal device including a controller configured to display a video on a display in accordance with a display range, the video being configured such that its display range to be displayed on the display within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video is variable depending on each playback position of the video, accept an instruction to indicate a specified display range that is a partial display range within a corresponding one of image frames constituting the video displayed on the display, and acquire particular display range information indicating a particular display range that is within a predetermined distance from the specified display range within an image frame corresponding to a playback position at a moment when the instruction is accepted, from a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of display range information indicating display ranges to be displayed within respective image frames corresponding to playback positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kentaro Ushiyama
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Patent number: 9526658Abstract: There is presented a system and method for providing real-time object recognition to a remote user. The system comprises a portable communication device including a camera, at least one client-server host device remote from and accessible by the portable communication device over a network, and a recognition database accessible by the client-server host device or devices. A recognition application residing on the client-server host device or devices is capable of utilizing the recognition database to provide real-time object recognition of visual imagery captured using the portable communication device to the remote user of the portable communication device. In one embodiment, a sighted assistant shares an augmented reality panorama with a visually impaired user of the portable communication device where the panorama is constructed from sensor data from the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLCInventors: Orange Dialameh, Douglas Miller, Charles Blanchard, Timothy C. Dorcey, Jeremi M. Sudol
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Patent number: 9532011Abstract: According to one aspect of the teachings presented herein, a machine vision system includes one or more sensor units that are each advantageously configured to use different pairings among a set of spaced-apart image sensors, to provide redundant object detection for a primary monitoring zone, while simultaneously providing for the detection of objects that may shadow the primary monitoring zone. Further, a plurality of “mitigations” and enhancements provide safety-of-design and robust operation. Such mitigations and enhancements include, for example, bad-pixel detection and mapping, cluster-based pixel processing for improved object detection, test-image injection for fault detection, dual-channel, redundant processing for safety-critical object detection, temporal filtering to reduce false detections, and the use of high dynamic range (HDR) images, for improved operation over variable ambient lighting conditions.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Omron CorporationInventors: John Drinkard, Ambrish Tyagi, Yoshiharu Tani, Koichi Kinoshita
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Patent number: 9516276Abstract: Methods for determining a property of a trajectory of a ball with a mobile computer device are described, which include: (a) capturing a sequence of video frames of the ball with a camera of the mobile computer device; (b) determining a first picture coordinate of the ball in a first video frame of the sequence; (c) determining a second picture coordinate of the ball in a second video frame of the sequence; and (d) computing a property of the trajectory of the ball based on a difference of the first and second picture coordinates, a time difference between the first and second video picture and a reference quantity, which may be determined based on a form and/or dimension of the ball in a picture taken with the camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Robert Frank Kirk, Heather Frances Driscoll, John Kelley, Lee Hickey
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Patent number: 9443134Abstract: Propagating object selection across multiple images is described. In one or more embodiments, an object is selected from a first image according to selection inputs. Features that are representative of the selected object are then ascertained. To propagate selection of the object to the second image, a determination is made as to whether the second image includes features that resemble those ascertained from the first image. Once a determination is made as to the features of the second image that resemble the features of the first image, the second image is divided into regions. Each of the regions includes pixels that are similar within the region, one pixel to another. The regions of the second image that include the features resembling those ascertained from the first image are then combined. The combined regions are used to select the object from the second image without receiving selection inputs to do so.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Sourabh Gupta, Saurabh Gupta, Ajay Bedi
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Patent number: 9413926Abstract: A system for processing event timing images includes: area scan image sensor for generating sequential digital two-dimensional images of a scene; and time delay integration module for processing the sequential digital two-dimensional images to generate a time delay integration image of a moving object in the scene.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: LYNX SYSTEM DEVELOPERS, INC.Inventors: Jeremy W. Aldridge, Kirk Sigel, Douglas DeAngelis, Mike E. Ciholas, Evan A. Hallam