Patent ID: 8310554

Claim:
A system for tracking at least one object, comprising: a plurality of communicatively connected visual sensing units in a single camera system configured to capture visual data related to the at least one object; and a manager component communicatively connected to the plurality of visual sensing units, where the manager component is configured to: assign one visual sensing unit of the plurality of visual sensing units to act as a visual sensing unit in a master mode and the remainder of the plurality of visual sensing units to act as visual sensing units in a slave mode; receive one or more votes cast by all objects detected by the plurality of visual sensing units in slave mode that are positioned within a pre-decided area; and respond to non-visibility of the at least one object tracked by the visual sensing unit in a master mode by determining a designated one of the plurality of visual sensing units in the slave mode to be in the master mode and designating the formerly assigned visual sensing unit in the master mode to be in the slave mode based on the cast one or more votes.