ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,392, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).
"Sports neural network codec" was invented by Valerio Colamatteo (Milan), Christopher Evi-Parker (London), Sateesh Padagadi (London) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a broadcast video stream of a game. A codec module of the computing system extracts image level features from the broadcast video stream. The codec module includes an object detection portion configured to detect players in the broadcast video stream and a subnet portion attached to the object detection portion. The subnet portion is configured to ide...