ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,056, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for recognizing activity in sports video using cross granularity accumulation module and method thereof" was invented by Soowon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and KwangHyun Ryu (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an activity recognition apparatus and method in sports videos using CGAM. According to the present invention, the apparatus for recognizing an activity in a sports video using CGAM (cross granularity accumulation module) comprises an object feature ext...