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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Vidya Elangovan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard H. Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy P. Heidmann, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marvin S. White, San Carlos, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Milnes, Fremont, CA (US);
Vidya Elangovan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard H. Cavallaro, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy P. Heidmann, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marvin S. White, San Carlos, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Milnes, Fremont, CA (US);
Sportvision, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An object is detected in images of a live event by storing and indexing templates based on representations of the object from previous images. For example, the object may be a vehicle which repeatedly traverses a course. A first set of images of the live event is captured when the object is at different locations in the live event. A representation of the object in each image is obtained, such as by image recognition techniques, and a corresponding template is stored. When the object again traverses the course, for each location, the stored template which is indexed to the location can be retrieved for use in detecting the object in a current image. The object's current location may be obtained from GPS data from the object, for instance, or from camera sensor data, e.g., pan, tilt and zoom, which indicates a direction in which the camera is pointed.