US Patent Issued to RAPSODO on July 21 for "Detecting a moving ball in images" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,899, issued on July 21, was assigned to RAPSODO PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Detecting a moving ball in images" was invented by Dejiang Xu (Singapore), Yasar Burak Savak (Singapore) and Batuhan Okur (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first step, a time series of images are resized to a smaller dimension, and the smaller images are fed into a first classifier that is trained to classify as a ball any objects in the smaller images that resemble a ball. In a second step, the smaller images are mapped back to the series of images, and regions in the series of images that contain the mapped ball are cropped from the series of image...