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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2007
Shinji Takenaka, Ishikawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Michimoto, Ishikawa, JP;
Satoru Oyabu, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a moving object automatic tracking apparatus that includes a movement detector for detecting movement of a moving object from an image obtained in time series from an image input portion. A tracker tracks the moving object by controlling a platform of the image input portion in a direction of movement of the moving object based on a movement detection result of the movement detector. An area manager manages a registered preset position and new registration of a preset position indicating an area for executing tracking by the tracker and movement detection by the movement detector. A patrol monitor conducts monitoring while patrolling plural preset positions set and managed by the area manager, and when a position in which the moving object is tracked and lost differs from the initialized preset position, the lost position is newly added and registered as an adaptive preset position.