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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2020
Sportsmedia Technology Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Mark Perry, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua Spivak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Zander, Burlingame, CA (US);
Graham Wei-Feng Goldbeck, Oakland, CA (US);
James G. Painter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Durham, NC (US);
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.