Patent ID: 9473748
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for tracking participants in a baseball game at a baseball park, comprising: analyzing video frames obtained from one or more cameras, the video frames provide images of participants in the baseball park and the baseball park comprises a playing field; based on the analyzing, determining tracks which indicates successive locations of the participants in the baseball park at successive points in time; associating a first probability that an end of a half-inning has occurred based on at least one of the tracks; associating a second probability that the end of a half-inning has occurred based on at least one other of the tracks; combining the first and second probabilities to provide a combined probability; determining that the combined probability exceeds a threshold; in response to the determining that the combined probability exceeds the threshold, updating a digital record of the baseball game to identify the end of the half-inning; and using the digital record to cross-reference to a video segment of the baseball game; wherein: