ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,912, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TRACKMAN A/S (Horsholm, Denmark).
"System and method for robotic camera calibration" was invented by Fredrik Tuxen (Rungsted Kyst, Denmark) and Michael Ungstrup (Vedbaek, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor and camera capture data corresponding to a position of a ball and automatically adjust orientation and zoom level of the camera. The processor pre-calibrates the camera so an initial orientation is known in a world coordinate system (WCS) and so different zoom levels are associated with respective parameter values. A first position of the ball in a first image is detected and ...