Patent ID: 11908190
Assignee: WINGFIELD GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein recognizing persons on the playing field/court comprises the following steps:, a) generating at least one background image of an empty playing field/court;, b) generating a background model;, c) separating each background image from each currently recorded image which comprises a person;, d) determining an absolute difference between the background model and the currently recorded image, and, e) generating a foreground mask,, wherein the foreground mask is characterized in that all pixels belonging to the foreground have the value 255 and the pixels of the background have the value 0, wherein preferably pixels for which the difference is greater than a defined limit value are determined as foreground and pixels with a smaller difference are determined as background.