Patent ID: 8854469

Claim:
A method for identifying movement patterns in a first digital video signal which comprises individual digital images recorded with a plurality of cameras, said digital images arranged at least indirectly in form a sequence, comprising the steps of: in a central data processing unit, analyzing the first digital video signal in real-time, assigning a predetermined number of first markings to at least one position-changing foreground region in a first recorded individual image, determining a relative movement of the first markings between the first recorded individual image and a subsequent second recorded individual image, associating with each moved first marking a predetermined first environment in the second recorded individual image in one-to-one correspondence, applying in the so-processed second recorded individual image a predetermined number of second markings to the at least one first position-changing foreground region or to at least one second position-changing foreground region, or both, wherein at least one of the first and second markings are arranged in form of a raster pattern, removing the second markings arranged within intersecting regions of a predetermined number of intersecting first environments, determining the relative movements of the first and second markings between the second recorded individual image and a subsequent third recorded individual image, and outputting via a user interface to at least an event representation display the relative movements of the first markings or the second markings, or both, as a first movement pattern.