ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,344, issued on April 29, was assigned to Pillar Vision Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for calibrating computing devices to track basketball shots" was invented by Alan W. Marty (Menlo Park, Calif.) and John Carter (Elkmont, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calibrating a computing device to track basketball shots has a camera for capturing two-dimensional (2-D) images of a basketball shot toward a basketball hoop. The system identifies the basketball and basketball hoop in the 2-D images and determines distances of the basketball from the camera based on sizes of the basketball in the 2-D images. The sy...