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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Houman Rastgar, Campbell, CA (US);
Alexander Berestov, San Jose, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Various aspects of a method and system to track one or more objects in a video stream are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes computation of a first confidence score of a first geometrical shape that encompasses at least a portion of an object in a first image frame of the video stream. The first geometrical shape is utilized to track the object in the video stream. The first geometrical shape is split into a plurality of second geometrical shapes. The split of the first geometrical shape is based on a comparison of the computed first confidence score with a pre-defined threshold score.