US Patent Issued to STATS on May 13 for "Body pose tracking of players from sports broadcast video feed" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,852, issued on May 13, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Body pose tracking of players from sports broadcast video feed" was invented by Akila Pemasiri (Brisbane, Australia) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein may generate a refined and denoised body pose data from a video feed of a sporting event. Tracking data containing player locations may be used to determine correspondence between a location and a body pose. For example, body pose with middle of key footpoints with shortest distance from the location may be selected as a likely body pose for the location. The body pose ...