Patent 11544872 was granted and assigned to Sony on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A novel multiple camera calibration algorithm uses human joint points for matched key points. A recent machine-learning based human joint detector provides joint positions with labels (e.g. left wrist, right knee, and others). In single person situation, it directly provides matched key points between multiple cameras. Thus, the algorithm does not suffer a key-point matching problem, even in a very sparse camera configuration, which is challenging in the traditional image feature-based method. This algorithm provides easy setup for a multiple camera configuration for marker-less pose estimation.