ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,432, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Multi view camera registration" was invented by Marvin S. White (San Carlos, Calif.), Radford Parker (San Mateo, Calif.), Divya Ramakrishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Louis Gentry (Union City, Calif.) and Rand Pendleton (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for registering one or more cameras and/or creating an accurate three-dimensional (3D) model of a world space environment including back projecting at least one image from at least one of a plurality of camera views to the 3D model based on a set of existing camera parameters. Th...