ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,601, issued on July 21, was assigned to SONY EUROPE BV (Surrey, Great Britain) and Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Device, computer program and method" was invented by Adam Baumberg (Guildford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program and device is described that obtains a first image of a sporting event, the first image containing a sporting projectile at a first pixel position and a first and second line separated by a predetermined real-world distance in a direction; establishes the number of pixels between the first and second line in the direction; establishes a real-world distance represented by a pixe...