US Patent Issued to Gracenote on April 22 for "Methods and systems for scoreboard region detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,055, issued on April 22, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems for scoreboard region detection" was invented by Jeffrey Scott (Oakland, Calif.), Markus Kurt Peter Cremer (Orinda, Calif.), Nishit Parekh (Woodlawn Hills, Calif.) and Dewey Ho Lee (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system automatically detects, in a sequence of video frames, a video frame region that depicts a scoreboard. The video frames of the sequence depict image elements including (i) scoreboard image elements that are unchanging across the video frames of the sequence and (ii) other image elements that change acros...