FACIAL RECOGNITION FOR EVENT VENUE CAMERAS

• US 20160073010A1
• Filed: 08/18/2015
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John E., Cronin, Seth M., Reasner, Nick, Fein, Gene
• Granted Patent: US 10,264,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00145 from a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums

Abstract

An event venue with a performance area (e.g., a sport field or auditorium stage) and an eventgoer area (e.g., stadium seating or bleachers) may include a set of eventgoer cameras trained on various sections of the eventgoer area and a set of performance cameras trained on the performance area. The event venue may also include sensors. When an event occurrence (e.g., a goal or touchdown) is detected using the cameras and/or sensors, at least one photo or video of the event occurrence may be captured by the performance cameras, and at least one photo or video of the eventgoer reaction may be captured using the eventgoer cameras. Facial recognition may then be used to identify particular eventgoers in each photo or video. Identified eventgoers can then receive photos or videos in which they are identified along with performance photos or videos that were captured at roughly the same time.

Claims

1. A method for event venue camera usage, the method comprising:

detecting an event occurrence in a performance area of an event venue;

capturing a performance visual media of the event occurrence in the performance area of the event venue using a performance camera;

capturing an eventgoer visual media of an eventgoer area of the event venue at substantially the same time as the capture of the performance visual media using an eventgoer camera;

recognizing a face within the eventgoer visual media as substantially matching an eventgoer face of an first eventgoer based on at least one reference photograph of the eventgoer face of the first eventgoer; and

transmitting the eventgoer visual media and the performance visual media to a user device associated with the first eventgoer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance visual media is one of a photograph, a video clip, or a frame of a video clip.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the eventgoer visual media is one of a photograph, a video clip, or a frame of a video clip.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the event occurrence in the performance area of the event venue includes detecting a predetermined condition detected by one or more sensors, the one or more sensors including at least one of a visual light camera, an infrared camera, a night vision camera, an ultraviolet camera, a microphone, a thermometer, a speed detector, a pressure sensor, a light sensor, a motion sensor, a timer, a barometer, a humidity sensor, or some combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined condition is a collision detected using computerized visual collision detection involving a predetermined visually recognizable object.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined condition is detected pressure in a predetermined area.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a confirmation request to the user device associated with the first eventgoer, the confirmation request including at least a subset of the eventgoer visual media and requesting confirmation that the recognized face matches the eventgoer face of the first eventgoer; and

receiving a confirmation from the user device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving the eventgoer visual media to a network storage device accessible by the user device associated with the first eventgoer.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising printing the eventgoer visual media.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting payment from the user device associated with the first eventgoer.

11. A system for event venue camera usage, the system comprising:

one or more eventgoer cameras;

one or more performance cameras; and

an eventgoer photo network, wherein execution of instructions stored in a memory of the eventgoer photo network using a processor of the eventgoer photo network;

detects an event occurrence in a performance area of an event venue,

captures a performance visual media of the event occurrence in the performance area of the event venue using the one or more performance cameras,

captures an eventgoer visual media of an eventgoer area of the event venue at substantially the same time as the capture of the performance visual media using the one or more eventgoer cameras,

recognizes a face within the eventgoer visual media as substantially matching an eventgoer face of an first eventgoer based on at least one reference photograph of the eventgoer face of the first eventgoer, and

transmits the eventgoer visual media and the performance visual media to a user device associated with the first eventgoer.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the performance visual media is one of a photograph, a video clip, or a frame of a video clip.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the eventgoer visual media is one of a photograph, a video clip, or a frame of a video clip.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising a sensor that is used for detecting the event occurrence in the performance area of the event venue by detecting a predetermined sensor condition, the sensor including at least one of a visual light camera, an infrared camera, a night vision camera, an ultraviolet camera, a microphone, a thermometer, a speed detector, a pressure sensor, a light sensor, a motion sensor, a timer, a barometer, or a humidity sensor.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the predetermined sensor condition is a collision detected using computerized visual collision detection involving a predetermined visually recognizable object.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the predetermined sensor condition is detected pressure in a predetermined area.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor of the eventgoer photo network further:

sends a confirmation request to the user device associated with the first eventgoer, the confirmation request including at least a subset of the eventgoer visual media and requesting confirmation that the recognized face matches the eventgoer face of the first eventgoer, and

receives a confirmation from the user device.

18. The system of claim 11, further comprising a network storage device accessible by the user device associated with the first eventgoer, the network storage device to receive the eventgoer visual media from the eventgoer photo network in response to receipt of a payment from the user device to the eventgoer photo network.

19. The system of claim 11, further comprising a printer to print the eventgoer visual media in response to receipt of a payment from the user device to the eventgoer photo network

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for event venue camera usage, the method comprising:

detecting an event occurrence in a performance area of an event venue;

capturing a performance visual media of the event occurrence in the performance area of the event venue using a performance camera;

capturing an eventgoer visual media of an eventgoer area of the event venue at substantially the same time as the capture of the performance visual media using an eventgoer camera;

recognizing a face within the eventgoer visual media as substantially matching an eventgoer face of an first eventgoer based on at least one reference photograph of the eventgoer face of the first eventgoer; and

transmitting the eventgoer visual media and the performance visual media to a user device associated with the first eventgoer.