ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,237, issued on March 24, was assigned to SONY EUROPE BV (Surrey, Great Britain) and Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Device, computer program and method" was invented by Carl Stennett (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Francis Smedley (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting a goaltending event includes circuitry configured to: determine a real-life position of a basketball from a video stream; detect an impact on the basketball from the movement of the basketball captured in the video stream; output a signal indicating a detected goaltending event based on the detected impact and the real-life posit...