US Patent Issued to SONY EUROPE, SONY GROUP on Sept. 1 for "Method, apparatus and computer program for generating sports game highlight video based on winning probability" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,416, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SONY EUROPE BV (Surrey, Great Britain) and SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and computer program for generating sports game highlight video based on winning probability" was invented by Samuel Green (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Raymond Tang (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a sports game highlight video based on winning probability includes receiving video of the sports game from at least one image capture device; performing object tracking analysis on the video to generate tracking data providing ball trajectory and player positi...