Patent ID: 9712761
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for tracking objects in a stream of video frames, comprising: associating information regarding at least one object with at least one radio frequency (RF) tag, wherein the at least one RF tag is disposed at a physical location of the at least one object; receiving from the at least one RF tag at least one RF signal at a plurality of RF readers, wherein the RF readers generate a plurality of RF values based on the at least one RF signal; recording a stream of video frames for a scene that includes the at least one object over time; recording by each of the plurality of RF readers the plurality of RF values over time for the at least one RF tag; determining a pixel location within each video frame and a depth value of the at least one object based on the plurality of RF values; determining a shape of the at least one object using the determined pixel location and the depth value; and embedding the determined pixel location and the determined shape of the at least one object in one or more video frames of the stream of video frames, comprising: