Patent ID: 8567251

Claim:
A method for selecting echoes from an echo list in order to continue at least one track formed by the progression over time of at least one echo of a plurality of past echo functions, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiving device, an echo list, the echo list including a plurality of current echoes, at least two current echoes of the plurality of current echoes including a relationship correlation; determining, by a tracking device, a degree of agreement of at least one current echo of the plurality of current echoes with the at least one past echo of the at least one past echo function; selecting, by the tracking device, a combination of echoes such that the at least one track is suitably continued, wherein in the selection of the combination of the at least one current echo the relationship correlation between the at least two current echoes of the plurality of current echoes is taken into account, and providing the position of the selected echoes at an output interface.