ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,764, issued on May 20.
"System and method for sports scoring" was invented by Igor Vishnevskiy (San Diego) and Stephen Jester (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scoring the performance of a performer in a sport, such as bull riding and gymnastic competitions. The scoring can be done using a video feed of a performance. Computer vision of the system can detect predefined body parts of the performer in frames of the video feed. Thereafter, geometric centers of the predefined body parts can be defined. Thereafter, a framework can be built by connecting the geometric centers and spatiotemporal changes in th...