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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189051 | Moving object detection apparatus and method by using optical flow analysis Disclosed is a moving object detection apparatus and method by using optical flow analysis. The apparatus includes four modules of image capturing, image aligning, pixel matching, and moving object detection. Plural images are successively inputted under a camera. B... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174581 | Moving object image tracking apparatus and method An apparatus includes a computation unit computing a moving velocity of a moving object (MO) by differentiation on a first angle of a first-rotation unit and a second angle of a second-rotation unit, a setting unit setting a first-angular velocity of the first-rotat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174580 | Automatic-tracking camera apparatus An automatic-tracking camera apparatus which is capable of realizing continuous and smooth driving and obtaining an image with little position variation of a tracking target from a target position within the image and with little blur. The position of a camera body ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159539 | Smoke detecting method and system A smoke detecting method and system are provided. The smoke detecting method and system capture a plurality of images; determine whether a moving object exists in the plurality of images; select the images having the moving object to be analyzed; analyze whether the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154600 | Method and system for distributed multiple target tracking A method and system for distributed tracking of multiple targets is disclosed. Multiple targets to be tracked by a plurality of trackers are detected in a frame. The motion state variable of each of the plurality of trackers is calculated in the E-step of a variatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144199 | Moving object automatic tracking apparatus 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 t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134596 | Classifying an object in a video frame In a digital video surveillance system, a number of processing stages are employed to identify foreground regions representing moving objects in a video sequence. An object tracking stage (5) is also provided in order to identify a correspondence between cand... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134597 | Camera system with touch focus and method Techniques for focusing a camera assembly on a moving object may include generating a preview video signal of a scene containing the object and analyzing the video signal to track movement of the moving object. As part of the analysis, a touch area for a touch sensi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130273 | System and method for spotlight identification of audience members during question and answer sessions A system for identifying audience members and sequencing audience participation, the system includes: a computing device with logic and storage devices electrically connected audience member control panels, audience identification devices, and a moderator or speaker... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130272 | Method for autostereoscopically producing three-dimensional image information from scanned sub-pixel extracts and device for carrying out said method A method for autostereoscopically producing three-dimensional image information from scanned subpixel extracts uses a multiplex track method (MTV) having a separating raster (TR) obliquely extended with respect to a matrix screen (MB) and an electronic tracking (TS)... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115814 | Mobile tracking system, camera and photographing method An apparatus and method to track and to photograph a mobile object over a wide range, by a cooperative operation of multiple cameras. In addition, a mobile tracking system is provided for tracking the mobile object by the cooperation of multiple cameras, in which ea... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094193 | Presentation video control system The present invention is a camera control system designed for video capture of a presentation made in a lecture hall or similar place. The system combines preset views triggered by presence-sensing devices at fixed locations with views tracking the motion of the pre... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089515 | Method and device for controlling auto focusing of a video camera by tracking a region-of-interest The invention concerns an electronic device equipped with a video imaging process capability, which device includes a camera unit arranged to produce image frames from an imaging view which includes a region-of-interest ROI, an adjustable optics arranged in connecti... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085302 | Combined digital and mechanical tracking of a person or object using a single video camera A combined digital and mechanical tracking system and process for generating a video using a single digital video camera that tracks a person or object of interest moving in a scene is presented. This generally involves operating the camera at a higher resolution th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081215 | Tagging and path reconstruction method utilizing unique identification and the system thereof Disclosed is a tagging and path reconstruction method utilizing unique identification characteristics and the system thereof. The tagging and path reconstruction system comprises a plurality of readers for reading identification information having unique IDs, a plur... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068136 | Method and system for determining angular position of an object A method and system for determining the angular position of an object are disclosed. As one example, a method for determining the angular position of an object is disclosed, which includes the steps of obtaining data representing an image of a surface area of the ob... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059153 | Three-dimensional object tracking using distributed thin-client cameras An object tracking system which includes a plurality of camera devices, each of which captures image data, a plurality of thin-client processors, each of which is connected to a respective camera device via a local connection, each thin-client processor hosting a th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8035687 | Image processing apparatus and program An image processing apparatus includes unit reading, from first objects, information items for determining program procedures used to detect the first objects by image processing, unit selecting, from the program procedures, program procedures corresponding to the i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031227 | Position tracking system A position tracking system includes an infrared-sensitive device, such as an infrared camera that generates signals in response to detected infrared light in a field of view of the infrared-sensitive device. A processor is responsive to the signals generated by the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031228 | Electronic camera and method which adjust the size or position of a feature search area of an imaging surface in response to panning or tilting of the imaging surface An electronic camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface for capturing an object scene, and repeatedly generates an object scene image. A CPU assigns a search area on the imaging surface, and repeatedly executes search processing for se... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031226 | Image output apparatus, image output method, image output program, image trimming apparatus, image trimming method, and image trimming program An image output apparatus according to the present invention includes: a moving image constituting image extracting section that extracts a moving-image constituting image from a moving image having a plurality of moving-image constituting images; a moving direction... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8004565 | System and method for using motion vectors for object tracking A system and method for tracking objects between multiple frames of a video is described. One method for tracking objects begins with a viewer initially identifying an object in a frame of video. If the viewer requires zooming, he can also select a scale factor for ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990417 | Targeted object pursuit system A targeted object pursuit system comprising a first setting block, a second setting block, a recognition block, a first determination block, a second determination block, and a re-designation block is provided. The first setting block initially designates a partial ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7956893 | Method of indexing last pitching shots in a video of a baseball game A method of indexing final pitching shots for each batter in a video recording of a baseball game is disclosed. The method includes locating pitching video frames in the video, identifying individual pitching shots contained in the video, determining which of the pi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7929017 | Method and apparatus for stereo, multi-camera tracking and RF and video track fusion A unified approach, a fusion technique, a space-time constraint, a methodology, and system architecture are provided. The unified approach is to fuse the outputs of monocular and stereo video trackers, RFID and localization systems and biometric identification syste... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7916172 | Image pickup apparatus with object tracking capability The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for automatically tracking an object to pick up an image of the object, and the image apparatus comprises; a lens apparatus including a zoom lens and a focus lens, the lens apparatus picking up an image of the... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7868915 | Photographing apparatus, method and computer program product A photographing apparatus including a photographing unit for obtaining an image by photographing, a face detection unit for detecting a face candidate included in the image, a face component detection unit for detecting a candidate of at least one of face components... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7825954 | Multi-state target tracking A method of video analysis may comprise tracking a state of each target in a video through multiple frames of said video, each state indicating a visibility condition of a target. ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7746380 | Video surveillance system, surveillance video composition apparatus, and video surveillance server The present invention provides a video surveillance system which tracks a tracking target by a plurality of surveillance cameras. This system is capable of tracking completely the location of the tracking target even in case the camera picture is automatically chang... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742073 | Method and apparatus for tracking an object of interest using a camera associated with a hand-held processing device A hand-held processing device, such as a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a portable computer, includes a physically or electronically adjustable camera and is operative to track a specified object of interest. Relative movement between the h... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738009 | Method for following at least one object in a scene A method is provided for monitoring at least one object in a scene, which method provides that, once a moving object stops and comes to a standstill, the dwell time at standstill is counted so as to generate a signaling as a function of the dwell time. The object is... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7692685 | Speaker detection and tracking using audiovisual data A system and method facilitating object tracking is provided. The invention includes an audio model that receives at least two audio input signals and a video model that receives a video input. The audio model and the video model employ probabilistic generative mode... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692684 | People counting systems and methods A system for counting a number of people or other moving objects entering or leaving a space has a camera which provides an image of an entrance to the space. A data processor identifies moving objects in the image. The data processor is configured to count people o... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7683929 | System and method for video content analysis-based detection, surveillance and alarm management A surveillance system and method for the automatic detection of potential alarm situation via a recorded surveillance content analysis and for the management of the detected unattended object situation. The system and method are operative in capturing surveillance c... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679642 | Camera navigation in a gaming environment A system and method for camera navigation that provides a player with an unobstructed, non-disorienting view of a target is provided. The system includes a memory for storing a camera navigation/control model, a central processing unit for executing the camera navig... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675543 | Analysis of video footage Segments of interest within video footage are identified automatically. Such segments of interest include portions of the footage which were taken using a hand held camera and which show a static subject, portions which track the motion of a moving subject, and port... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7636105 | Method and apparatus for providing motion control signals between a fixed camera and a PTZ camera The method and apparatus for providing motion control signals between a fixed lens static camera and a PTZ camera that includes an adjustable-in-use focal length adapted to provide improved surveillance. In one aspect of the present invention, the improved method an... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7612800 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit that receives time-series images, and a candidate area tracking unit that extracts a line segment in a specific direction, sets an obstacle candidate area in a vicinity of the detected line segment, and sear... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7602417 | Image processing method, imaging apparatus, and storage medium storing control program of image processing method executable by computer An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a moving image and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the moving image. The image processing method includes a step of determining... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7474332 | Synthetic aperture ladar system and method using real-time holography This invention uses a real-time holographic medium to record the amplitude and phase information collected from a moving platform at the aperture plane of a side-looking optical sensor over the collection time. A back-scan mirror is used to compensate platform motio... | 01/06/2009 |
