ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,356, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo) and CHUBU UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Aichi, Japan).

"Computer vision system, computer vision method, computer vision program, and learning method" was invented by Takayoshi Yamashita (Kasugai, Japan), Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Kasugai, Japan), Tsubasa Hirakawa (Kasugai, Japan), Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo), Yeongnam Chae (Tokyo) and Bjorn Stenger (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer vision system, with at least one processor configured to: acquire, from a sports match video, a plurality of pieces of consecutive image data indicating a portion of the sports m...