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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2005
Chu-yin Chang, Plano, TX (US);
James D. English, Newton, MA (US);
Neil M. Tardella, West Haven, CT (US);
Chu-Yin Chang, Plano, TX (US);
James D. English, Newton, MA (US);
Neil M. Tardella, West Haven, CT (US);
Energid Technologies, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or b) a position or an orientation of the object in three-dimensions, and/or c) an articulation or a shape change of said object in said three dimensions.