US Patent Issued to STATS on April 29 for "System and method for player reidentification in broadcast video" (British, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,342, issued on April 29, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for player reidentification in broadcast video" was invented by Long Sha (Chicago), Sujoy Ganguly (Chicago), Xinyu Wei (Melbourne, Australia), Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago) and Aditya Cherukumudi (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of re-identifying players in a broadcast video feed are provided herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames. Ea...