US Patent Issued to MOBILE VIEWPOINT on Nov. 25 for "Method for detecting and/or tracking moving objects within a certain zone and sports video production system in which such a method is implemented" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,114, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MOBILE VIEWPOINT B.V. (Alkmaar, Netherlands).

"Method for detecting and/or tracking moving objects within a certain zone and sports video production system in which such a method is implemented" was invented by Michael Stuurman (Arnhem, Netherlands) and Michel Alexander Bais (Enkhuizen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting moving objects within a certain zone that includes initially providing multiple physical cameras around the zone and composing a panoramic video stream using the cameras. Upon composing the panoramic video stream, one or more virtual camera views ...