US Patent Issued to Image Metrics on May 13 for "Real-time body pose estimation system and method in unconstrained video" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,930, issued on May 13, was assigned to Image Metrics Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Real-time body pose estimation system and method in unconstrained video" was invented by Kevin Walker (Sheffield, Great Britain), Mike Rogers (Austin, Texas), Chris Bowles (Sheffield, Great Britain), Matthew Oakes (Manchester, Great Britain), Mike Taylor (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Vincent Drouard (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more implementations, body features of a subject can be tracked and a pose estimation produced using an unconstrained video sequence. The video sequence constitutes a physical record o...