Patent ID: 6445409
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: G01S,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
A moving object recognition method for recognizing a specified moving object in sequentially input image signal in distinction from other objects, comprising the steps of:sequentially detecting at least one moving object in the sequentially input image signals by a subtraction method; sequentially storing, for each input image signal, in a memory at least one characteristic physical quantity which said moving object has; detecting at least one locus of said moving object based on characteristic physical quantities in said input image signals; storing in a memory characteristic physical quantities of said detected locus in such a manner that said characteristic physical quantities are associated with each other as a series of characteristic physical quantities of said moving object; previously setting a test or criterion of determining whether said moving object belongs to said specified moving object or belongs to objects other than said specified moving object; and determining from said series of characteristic physical quantities, whether or not said moving object is said specified moving object, based on said determining criterion.