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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Ulsee Inc., Taipei, TW;

Inventors:

Zhou Ye, Foster City, CA (US);

Sheng-Wen Jeng, Taipei, TW;

Chih-Ming Chang, Taipei, TW;

Hsin-Wei Hsiao, Taipei, TW;

Yi-Chia Hsu, Tainan, TW;

Ying-Ko Lu, Taoyuan County, TW;

Assignee:

ULSee Inc., Taipei, TW;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06T 7/204 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01);
Abstract

Image-based object tracking system includes at least a controller with two or more color clusters, an input button, a processing unit with a camera, an object tracking algorithm and a display. Camera is configured to capture images of the controller, the processing unit is connected to display to display processed image contents, the controller is directly interacting with displayed processed image content. The controller can have two or three color clusters located on a side surface thereof and two color clusters having concentric circular areas located at a top surface thereof, the color of the first color cluster can be the same as or different from the color of the third color cluster. An object tracking method with or without scale calibration is also provided, which includes color learning and color relearning, image capturing, separating and splitting of the controller and the background, object pairing procedure steps on the controller.


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