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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
May. 10, 1995
Anthony J. Isadore-Barreca, Oakland, CA (US);
David R. Emberson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Mark I. Himelstein, Saratoga, CA (US);
Donald E. Meyer, Cupertion, CA (US);
Identive Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
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 (,).