Patent ID: 7738009

Claim:
A method for tracking at least one object in a scene, comprising: detecting, by means of an image detector, a sequence of images of the scene; determining a movement of at least one object in the scene based on the sequence of images; starting a counter when the movement of the at least one object comes to a standstill; enabling counting of the counter only if the at least one object continues to be in the standstill; generating a signal when a counter value of the counter reaches a predetermined threshold value; recording the movement of the at least one object as entries in a list, and when the list is full, re-initializing the list while carrying over at least one entry from the list; and when a most recent entry of the list corresponds to the standstill and the list is full, re-initializing the list while carrying over a most recent entry that corresponds to the movement of the at least one object in addition to carrying over the most recent entry corresponding to the standstill.