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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2024
Sportsmedia Technology Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Josh D. Spivak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Graham W. Goldbeck, Oakland, CA (US);
Ryan A. Zander, Burlingame, CA (US);
Ted C. Chen, Valencia, CA (US);
Robert C. Amyx, San Jose, CA (US);
James G. Painter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for use in automating or assisting umpiring of a baseball or softball game are described herein. A location of a strike zone is determined based on video images of a batter standing next to home plate captured by a camera. Locations of a ball traveling towards the batter, and locations of the bat being held by the batter, are autonomously tracked using computer vision based on video images captured by at least two cameras having different positions. Additionally, there are autonomous determinations of whether a location of the ball intersects with the strike zone, and whether the batter made a genuine attempt to swing the bat at the ball, and based one at least one of these determinations, there is an autonomous determination of whether a 'strike' or a “ball” occurred. Additionally, an indication of whether a “strike” or a “ball” occurred is autonomously output.