Patent ID: 8929587
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method comprising the steps of: selecting a video scene from a video stream; dividing the video scene into a plurality of regions; forming a second video object by combining selected regions of said plurality of regions in said video scene; associating without user input an object type of a plurality of object types to the video object; and based on and responsive to the object type associated with the video object, enabling one of a plurality of object tracking processes for processing the video object, Wherein each object tracking process of said plurality of object tracking processes is associated with a particular object type that is different from the object types associated with other object tracking processes of said plurality of object tracking processes; choosing the object type from a list of known object types related to the video object and using a general purpose object tracking process to process an object type that is not identified in the list of known object types.