US Patent Issued to STATS on May 13 for "System and method for calibrating moving cameras capturing broadcast video" (British, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,900, issued on May 13, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for calibrating moving cameras capturing 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 calibrating moving cameras capturing a sporting event is disclosed 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 labels, via a neural network, components of a playing surfac...