Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining X,Y,Z,T biomechanics of moving actor with multiple cameras
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Application No.: US16027659Application Date: 2018-07-05
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Publication No.: US10706566B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Mark Perry , Joshua Spivak , Ryan A. Zander , Graham Wei-Feng Goldbeck , James G. Painter
- Applicant: SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NC Durham
- Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Durham
- Agency: NEO IP
- Main IPC: G06T7/292
- IPC: G06T7/292 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/247

Abstract:
A plurality of high speed tracking cameras is pointed towards a routine hovering area of an in-the-field sports participant who routinely hovers about that area. Spots within the hovering area are registered relative to a predetermined multi-dimensional coordinates reference frame (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw) such that two-dimensional coordinates of 2D images captured by the high speed tracking cameras can be converted to multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A body part recognizing unit recognizes 2D locations of a specific body part in the 2D captured images and a mapping unit maps them into the multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A multi-dimensional curve generator then generates a multi-dimensional motion curve describing motion of the body part based on the mapped coordinates (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw). The generated multi-dimensional motion curve is used to discover cross correlations between play action motions of the in-the-field sports participant and real-world sports results.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180315202A1 DETERMINING X,Y,Z,T BIOMECHANICS OF MOVING ACTOR WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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