Patent ID: 7453939

Claim:
A computer implemented method for extracting objects from a source video comprising: performing motion segmentation on a plurality of frames of the source video to segment the source video by moving regions thereof to define basic contours of the objects of the source video; performing color segmentation on a frame of the source video to segment the source video by substantially uniform color regions thereof to define more precise boundaries of the objects of the source video as measured against the basic contours of the objects of the source video as defined by the motion segmentation; and, combining at least the moving regions resulting from the motion segmentation and the substantially uniform color regions resulting from the color segmentation to define still more precisely the objects of the source video by, at least partially, deeming a substantially uniform color region to be part of a moving object if a percent of the substantially uniform color region that is assignable to one or more moving regions exceeds a predetermined threshold.