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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2006
Manoj Aggarwal, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Deepak Sethi, Bangalore, IN;
Supun Samarasekera, Princeton, NJ (US);
Vince Paragano, Yardley, PA (US);
Manoj Aggarwal, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Deepak Sethi, Bangalore, IN;
Supun Samarasekera, Princeton, NJ (US);
Vince Paragano, Yardley, PA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for tracking at least one object is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of communicatively connected visual sensing units configured to capture visual data related to the at least one object The system also includes a manager component communicatively connected to the plurality of visual sensing units. The manager component is configured to assign one visual sensing unit to act as a visual sensing unit in a master mode and at least one visual sensing unit to act as a visual sensing unit in a slave mode. The manager component is further configured to transmit at least one control signal to the plurality of visual sensing units, and receive the visual data from the plurality of visual sensing units.