Patent ID: 6850265

Claim:
A method for tracking an object of interest in a video processing system, the method comprising the steps of: generating for particular ones of successive plural measurement intervals an audio locator output from an audio input derived from detecting sound from an object, and a video locator output from a video input derived partly from a camera detecting movement of an object, each indicative of a location of the object of interest; applying a set of confidence level rules to each of the audio locator output and video locator output to determine which one of the audio locator output and the video locator output has a higher confidence level, whereby the one having the highest confidence level will be utilized independently from the other to adjust a setting of the camera during each one of said successive plural measurement intervals, but if in a measurement interval the confidence levels are equivalent, the video locator output is used if above an established threshold, otherwise the audio locator output is utilized; and adjusting the camera setting utilizing only the selected one of the audio locator output and the video locator output in accordance with the applied set of confidence level rules.