ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,891, issued on March 24, was assigned to Freestate Optics (Potomac, Md.).
"Electronic home plate" was invented by John Robertson Rzasa (University Park, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to an electronic home plate system that includes a home plate enclosure and at least one image sensor system disposed within the enclosure, each image sensor system including an image sensor, a lens and a first processor. The first processor is adapted to detect a motion of a ball by continuously capturing frames from the image sensor. The detecting motion includes capturing a first frame, capturing a second frame, subtract...