Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Object position tracking using motion estimation
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Application No.: US15432232Application Date: 2017-02-14
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Publication No.: US10255504B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Marzia E. Castellani , Roberto Guarda , Roberto Ragusa , Alessandro Rea
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC
- Agent Michael O'Keefe; Matthew M. Hulihan
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T11/60 ; H04N5/14 ; G06T7/246 ; G06K9/32

Abstract:
Tracking position of at least one object in video frames. The tracking includes processing an initial frame of a set of frames, the processing the initial frame using feature extraction to identify locations of features of the at least one object. The tracking further includes using motion estimation to track locations of the features in subsequent frames of the set of frames, including iteratively performing: obtaining a next frame of the set of frames, and applying a motion estimation algorithm as between the next frame and a prior frame of the set of frames to identify updated locations of the features in the next frame, where locations of the features as identified based on the prior frame are used as input to the motion estimation algorithm to identify the updated locations of the features in the next frame based on searching less than an entirety of the next frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170200280A1 OBJECT POSITION TRACKING USING MOTION ESTIMATION Public/Granted day:2017-07-13
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