Patent ID: 8223835

Claim:
A method for categorizing moving objects into familiar colors in video comprising: receiving a video input; automatically determining, using a computer device, at least one object track of the video input, each of the at least one object track tracking a movement of an object within the video input; creating a normalized cumulative histogram of the at least one object track; one of: performing a parameterization quantization of the histogram including separating the histogram into regions based on at least one surface curve derived from one of saturation and intensity; or identifying a significant color of the histogram; and sub sampling a plurality of frames of the at least one object track according to the equation i>S+M*2 n , where i is a current number of frames in the object track, S is a constant based on a number of frames needed before sampling starts, M is an initial number of frames that can be skipped, and n is an iterator.