US Patent Issued to SportsMEDIA Technology on July 15 for "Tracking of handheld sporting implements using computer vision" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,568, issued on July 15, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Tracking of handheld sporting implements using computer vision" was invented by James G. Painter (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path and/or orientation of object approaching an athlete is tracked using two or more cameras. At least two sets of images of the object are obtained using at least two different cameras having different positions. Motion regions within images are identified, and candidate locations in 2D space of the object are identified within the motion region(s). Based thereon, a probable location in 3D space of th...