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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2023
Pillar Vision, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alan W. Marty, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John Carter, Elkmont, AL (US);
Pillar Vision, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for calibrating a computing device to track basketball shots has a camera for capturing two-dimensional (2-D) images of a basketball shot toward a basketball hoop. The system identifies the basketball and basketball hoop in the 2-D images and determines distances of the basketball from the camera based on sizes of the basketball in the 2-D images. The system also determines angles of the basketball from the camera based on positions of the basketball in the 2-D images. The system calculates a parabolic trajectory of the basketball based on the determined distances and angles and then determines an orientation and a position of the camera in three-dimensional (3-D) space based on the identified basketball hoop and the calculated trajectory. The system stores, in memory, calibration data indicative of the orientation and the position of the camera in 3-D space for use in tracking basketball shots by the computing device.