Patent ID: 11951373
Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 19:
20. A system for automating umpiring or automatically assisting umpiring of a baseball game or a softball game comprising:
at least two cameras configured to capture images of a ball;
at least one processor in network communication with the at least two cameras, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
determine a location of a strike zone based on at least one frontal image of the batter;
add a visual representation of the strike zone to a video including the batter or an image from the video including the batter to illustrate or indicate the location of the strike zone on the video or the image;
associate the location of the strike zone with the batter and save the location of the strike zone for reuse for subsequent at-bats for the batter;
track locations of the ball;
determine at least one location of the ball in three-dimensional (3D) space;
determine whether at least one location of the ball intersected with the strike zone based on the determined location of the strike zone and the tracked locations of the ball;
determine whether a strike or a ball occurred; and
transmit an auditory indication and/or a visual indication of whether the determined strike or the determined ball occurred;

wherein the visual representation of the strike zone comprises a 3D box representing a 3D strike zone.