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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nicola Lanini, Zurich, CH;
Assignee:
Oerlikon Contraves AG, Zurich, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method for the detection and tracking of moving objects, which can be implemented in hardware computers, is described. The core of the described method is constituted by a gradient integrator ( ), whose contents can be permanently refreshed with a sequence of image sections containing the target object. Different method steps for processing the image sections ( ) reduce the number of required calculation operations and therefore assure sufficient speed of the method.