Ball tracker snippets

• US 9,571,903 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John, Reasner, Nick
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson, II, James M
• Application Number:
  US14/798,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20160014481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing ball tracker snippets are provided. Data may be received over a wireless communication regarding movement of a ball within an event venue during an event. Such received data may be based on signals from an antenna coupled to the ball. A video of the event may be synchronized to the received data. A portion of the received data may be identified as meeting a threshold. A portion of the video may be determined to be associated with the identified portion of received data that meets the threshold. A video snippet may then be extracted for the determined portion.

Claims

1. A system for ball tracker video, the system comprising:

a memory that stores a specified threshold rate value;

a communication interference that receives ball data via one or more wireless signals from an antenna coupled to a ball, the received ball data including timeline data associated with a timeline of an event and position data associated with positions of the ball within an event venue during the event; and

a processor that executes instructions stored in the memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor;

synchronizes video data of at least a subset of the event to the timeline data,

identifies a plurality of time durations along the timeline based on the received ball data, wherein each time duration corresponds to a rate traveled by the ball during the respective time duration, wherein each rate meets or exceeds the specified threshold rate value,

sorts the plurality of rates from a highest rate to a lowest rate, wherein the plurality of time durations are sorted according to the sorting of the plurality of rates,

identifies a plurality of portions of the video data that are synchronized with the plurality of time durations, and

extracts a video snippet from the video data, the video snippet including a first video portion of the plurality of video portions.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display screen that displays the video snippet.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface that receives the specified threshold rate value.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor further synchronizes the timeline data with the position data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor further identifies, based on the position data and the timeline data, a plurality of ball travel distances corresponding to the plurality of time durations.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor further generates an event coordinate grid that maps coordinates to the event venue.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database in the memory, wherein the database that stores the plurality of portions of the video data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the video snippet corresponds to the highest rate of the plurality of rates.

9. A method for ball tracker video, the method comprising:

storing a specified threshold rate value in a memory;

receiving ball data via one or more wireless signals from an antenna coupled to a ball, the received ball data including timeline data associated with a timeline of an event and position data associated with positions of the ball within an event venue during the event; and

executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor;

synchronizes video data of at least a subset of the event to the timeline data,

identifies a plurality of time durations along the timeline based on the received ball data, wherein each time duration corresponds to a rate traveled by the ball during the respective time duration, wherein each rate meets or exceeds the specified threshold rate value,

sorts the plurality of rates from a highest rate to a lowest rate, wherein the plurality of time durations are sorted according to the sorting of the plurality of rates,

identifies a plurality of portions of the video data that are synchronized with the plurality of time durations, and

extracts a video snippet from the video data, the video snippet including a first video portion of the plurality of video portions.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying on a display screen the video snippet.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising receiving the specified threshold rate value via a user interface.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising synchronizing the timeline data with the position data.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising identifying, based on the position data and the timeline data, a plurality of ball travel distances corresponding to the plurality of time durations.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating an event coordinate grid that maps coordinates to the event venue.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising storing the plurality of portions of the video data in a database in the memory.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the video snippet corresponds to the highest rate of the plurality of rates.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for ball tracker video, the method comprising:

storing a specified threshold rate value in a memory;

receiving ball data via one or more wireless signals from an antenna coupled to a ball, the received ball data including timeline data associated with a timeline of an event and position data associated with positions of the ball within an event venue during the event; and

synchronizing video data of at least a subset of the event to the timeline data,

identifying a plurality of time durations along the timeline based on the received ball data, wherein each time duration corresponds to a rate traveled by the ball during the respective time duration, wherein each rate meets or exceeds the specified threshold rate value,

sorting the plurality of rates from a highest rate to a lowest rate, wherein the plurality of time durations are sorted according to the sorting of the plurality of rates,

identifying a plurality of portions of the video data that are synchronized with the plurality of time durations, and

extracting a video snippet from the video data, the video snippet including a first video portion of the plurality of video portions.