THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT TRACKING USING COMBINATION OF RADAR SPEED DATA AND TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20230091774A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-23

    申请号:US17979692

    申请日:2022-11-02

    申请人: Topgolf Sweden AB

    摘要: Methods and systems include, in at least one aspect: determining an optical model of an object in flight using two dimensional image data obtained from a camera, determining a radar model of the object in flight using radar data obtained from a radar device, combining the radar model with the optical model to produce three dimensional location information of the object in flight in three dimensional space, comparing the three dimensional location information of the object in flight with data representing an expected ball launch, and rejecting (or verifying) the object as an actual ball launch in response to the three dimensional location information of the object in flight differing (or not differing) from the data representing the expected ball launch by a threshold amount.

    TRAJECTORY EXTRAPOLATION AND ORIGIN DETERMINATION FOR OBJECTS TRACKED IN FLIGHT AND SENSOR COVERAGE DETERMINATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230085842A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-23

    申请号:US17381155

    申请日:2021-07-20

    申请人: Topgolf Sweden AB

    IPC分类号: A63B24/00 A63B67/02

    摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for 3D flight tracking of objects include a method including determining a golf ball trajectory based on observations by sensor(s), extrapolating the trajectory backward in time, calculating distance measure(s) between the extrapolated trajectory and physical locations, determining one of the physical locations to be an origin of the golf ball based on the distance measure(s) and two types of separately estimated errors, wherein a first of the two types of separately estimated errors affects ball positional error for the initial observations, and a second of the two types of separately estimated errors affects an angle of the extrapolated trajectory; and presenting golf ball data on a display device associated with the origin of the golf ball.

    System and Method for Three Dimensional Object Tracking Using Combination of Radar and Image Data

    公开(公告)号:US20190111315A2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-18

    申请号:US16033134

    申请日:2018-07-11

    申请人: Topgolf Sweden AB

    发明人: Daniel Forsgren

    IPC分类号: A63B24/00 A63B57/00

    摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for 3D flight tracking of objects includes, in at least one aspect, a method including obtaining two dimensional image data of a golf ball in flight, the two dimensional image data originating from a camera; obtaining radar data of the golf ball in flight, the radar data originating from a Doppler radar device associated with the camera; interpolating the radar data to generate interpolated radar data of the golf ball in flight; and blending radial distance information derived from the interpolated radar data of the golf ball in flight with angular distance information derived from the two dimensional image data of the golf ball in flight to form three dimensional location information of the golf ball in three dimensional space.

    Motion based pre-processing of two-dimensional image data prior to three-dimensional object tracking with virtual time synchronization

    公开(公告)号:US11335013B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US17404953

    申请日:2021-08-17

    申请人: Topgolf Sweden AB

    摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for pre-processing image data before 3D object tracking includes, in at least one aspect, a method including: receiving, at a first computer, image frames from a camera; identifying, by the first computer, locations of interest in the image frames; finding sequences of the locations, wherein each of the sequences satisfies a motion criterion for locations identified in at least three image frames from the camera; and sending output data for the sequences of the locations to a second computer for processing the sequences in the output data by interpolating between specified 2D positions in specific image frames for the sequences, using timestamps of the specific image frames, to produce a virtual 2D position at a predetermined point in time, which is usable for constructing a 3D track of a ball in motion.

    System and Method for Three Dimensional Object Tracking Using Combination of Radar and Image Data

    公开(公告)号:US20180318644A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-08

    申请号:US16033134

    申请日:2018-07-11

    申请人: Topgolf Sweden AB

    发明人: Daniel Forsgren

    IPC分类号: A63B24/00 A63B57/00

    摘要: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for 3D flight tracking of objects includes, in at least one aspect, a method including obtaining two dimensional image data of a golf ball in flight, the two dimensional image data originating from a camera; obtaining radar data of the golf ball in flight, the radar data originating from a Doppler radar device associated with the camera; interpolating the radar data to generate interpolated radar data of the golf ball in flight; and blending radial distance information derived from the interpolated radar data of the golf ball in flight with angular distance information derived from the two dimensional image data of the golf ball in flight to form three dimensional location information of the golf ball in three dimensional space.