Patent 11144766 was granted and assigned to Sony on October, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Fast visual data annotation includes automatic detection using an automatic detector to detect subjects and joints in video frames. Then, annotation with sampling is performed, including determining when a frame is a sample (e.g., based on comparison of frames). Replay and refinement is utilized where user is involved with manually annotating subjects and/or joints in only select video frames.