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US 11,908,190 B2Granted
Game monitoring
AssigneeWingfield GmbH
InventorsHenri Kuper, Julius Burlage, Jaan Brunken, Maik Burlage
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a device, a system and a method for tracking at least one object and player on a playing field/court and/or for monitoring the course of the game.
Claims8
A method for game monitoring comprising the following steps:
- a) determining the playing field/court;
- b) recognizing at least one person on the playing field/court;
- c) identifying objects on the playing field/court;
- d) determining at least one trajectory;
- wherein at least one event is identified by means of which the scores calculated in the course of the game are corrected by means of backward scoring and the real final score of the game is output;
- wherein correcting the score calculated in the course of the game comprises the following steps:
- a) monitoring the possible scores during the game;
- b) checking the compatibility of all possible scores with the detected events;
- c) checking the plausibility of the remaining scores.
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A method for game monitoring comprising the following steps:
- a) determining the playing field/court;
- b) recognizing at least one person on the playing field/court;
- c) identifying objects on the playing field/court;
- and
- d) determining at least one trajectory;
- wherein at least one event is identified by means of which the scores calculated in the course of the game are corrected by means of backward scoring and the real final score of the game is output, and
- wherein determining the playing field/court is effected by means of calibration, wherein individual points in a two-dimensional (2D) image are assigned to a specific point in a two-dimensional (2D) model of the playing field/court, wherein the calibration is preferably effected by way of a homography matrix in which at least four points are used which correlate in the image and the model, these particularly preferably being four corner points of the playing field/court.
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A device for tracking at least one object and player on a playing field/court comprising:
- a) an image recording system comprising
- i) at least one camera arranged in such a way that the entire playing field/court is captured;
- ii) at least one transmission module designed to store the data recorded by the camera and/or to transmit them to a computing unit, a storage means, or system;
- wherein the at least one camera and the at least one transmission module are attached to at least one net post;
- b) a computing unit, comprising modules for
- iii) playing field/court ascertainment;
- iv) person recognition;
- v) object determination;
- vi) trajectory recognition;
- vii) event identification;
- and
- viii) event-based result ascertainment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.