ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,261, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WowYow Inc. (San Diego).
"Markerless motion capture" was invented by Adam Boskovich (San Diego), Jarett Boskovich (San Diego), Michael Ramirez (San Diego), Warren James Pretorius (San Diego) and Gary Twait (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for markerless motion capture may include an image capture apparatus that obtains video including live movement of one or more subjects. An estimation module analyzes frames of the video and estimates the location of a plurality of keypoints on each of the subjects. A propagation module applies the keypoints corresponding to a first subject to ...