Apple Inc.

Identive Corporation

Mark I Himelstein

David R Emberson

John E Morley

Anthony J Isadore-Barreca

Donald E Meyer

A moving object identification method (,) for identifying and tracing an object (,) within a video image (,) such that the object (,) can act as a hot spot (,) as for an interactive computer/user interface (,). A plurality of tags (,) define the edges (,) of the object (,) and a plurality of hot spot borders (,) define the hot spot (,) such that the hot spot (,) and the object (,) generally coincide. A physical tag (,) is optionally used to position the tags (,). Sensitivity to disappearance of the edges (,) is adjustable according to the relative size of a subtag (,) to the corresponding tag (,).

Object identification in a moving video image

An emulation system contains reorganized instruction code sequences for a computer, so that the native code which is used to emulate instructions that occur most frequently in a typical environment are grouped together, to thereby minimize instruction cache conflicts. A representative set of programs which operate with the emulated code are run, and statistics are recorded to determine the most frequently occurring emulated instructions. The native code which emulates these most frequently occurring instructions is then arranged so that the portions of the code are statically stored in main memory at consecutive memory locations. As a result, when the native code for a frequently occurring emulated instruction is loaded from the memory into the cache, the likelihood that the cache will contain the native code for subsequent emulated instructions is maximized, and the likelihood of cache conflicts is minimized.

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Mark I Himelstein