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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2013
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventor:

David Allen Fotland, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3241 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00369 (2013.01); G06T 7/2033 (2013.01); G06K 2009/3291 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and approaches are provided for tracking an object using multiple tracking processes. By combining multiple lightweight tracking processes, object tracking can be robust, use a limited amount of power, and enable a computing device to respond to input corresponding to the motion of the object in real time. The multiple tracking processes can be run in parallel to determine the position of the object by selecting the results of the best performing tracker under certain heuristics or combining the results of multiple tracking processes in various ways. Further, other sensor data of a computing device can be used to improve the results provided by one or more of the tracking processes.


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