Patent ID: 8890957

Claim:
A method for object tracking, adapted to an object tracking system, and the method for object tracking comprising: setting a set of discovered paths to be empty; determining a set of surveillance data corresponding to at least one initial object spot in a set of initial object spots according to a location and a time of the initial object spot; retrieving one or a plurality of segments of surveillance data in the set of surveillance data; finding at least one discovered object spot matching a target object qualification of a target object in the set of surveillance data, adding the at least one discovered object spot into a set of discovered object spots, and adding a discovered path defined by the discovered object spot and the initial object spot corresponding to the discovered object spot into the set of discovered paths when the at least one discovered object spot is found; setting the set of initial object spots to be the set of discovered object spots and returning to the step of determining the set of surveillance data when the set of discovered object spots is not empty; and outputting the at least one discovered object spot and the set of discovered paths when the set of discovered object spots is empty.