US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Feb. 24 for "Motion capture using light polarization" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,877, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Motion capture using light polarization" was invented by James Nunn Hejl Jr. (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may perform motion capture using polarized light. For example, the system may determine one or more filtered pixels having an associated degree of linear polarization above a threshold from a plurality of pixels of an image captured by a polarization camera and determine a set of pixels of the filtered pixels are associated with a polarized tag, the polarized tag being on a subject of motion capture. The system may then...