Multi-cam ball location method and apparatus
US11763467B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 28, 2018 |
| Grant date | Sep 19, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N5/144
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multi-camera architecture for detecting and tracking a ball in real-time. The multi-camera architecture includes network interface circuitry to receive a plurality of real-time videos taken from a plurality of high-resolution cameras. Each of the high-resolution cameras simultaneously captures a sports event, wherein each of the plurality of high-resolution cameras includes a viewpoint that covers an entire playing field where the sports event is played. The multi-camera architecture further includes one or more processors coupled to the network interface circuitry and one or more memory devices coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory devices includes instructions to determine the location of the ball for each frame of the plurality of real-time videos, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the multi-camera architecture to simultaneously perform one of a detection scheme or a tracking scheme on a frame from each of the plurality of real-time videos to detect the ball used in the sports event and perform a multi-camera build to determine a location of the ball in 3D for the frame from each of the plurality of real-time videos using one of d…
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