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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2006
John Brian Burns, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Eriksen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Carl Shapiro, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Heller, Belmont, CA (US);
Regis Vincent, San Mateo, CA (US);
John Brian Burns, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Eriksen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Carl Shapiro, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aaron Heller, Belmont, CA (US);
Regis Vincent, San Mateo, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for autonomous object tracking. In one embodiment, a method for tracking a moving object across at least a portion of a video signal made up of a plurality of image frames includes stabilizing the video signal by processing selected portions of selected image frames, detecting at least one movement in the stabilized video signal, and computing a location of the detected movement(s).