US Patent Issued to STATS on Nov. 4 for "Estimating missing player locations in broadcast video feeds" (Illinois, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,416, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Estimating missing player locations in broadcast video feeds" was invented by Adedapo Alabi (Cincinnati), Matthew Scott (Chicago) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein may estimate locations of players not visible in a sporting broadcast video. A prediction model may be generated based on a training data set of in-venue tracking data that includes locations of all players at all times and the corresponding broadcast tracking data that may not necessarily contain the locations of all players at all times. The prediction mod...