Patent ID: 8358342

Claim:
A system for processing video information obtained by a video camera based on a representative view from the camera, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory communicably connected to the processor, the memory comprising: computer code for determining a relative depth for at least two different regions of the representative view, the two different regions comprising a near field region and a far field region; computer code for estimating a scale factor for the different regions of the representative view; computer code for determining a unit size for dividing the different regions into units of the determined unit size, the unit size based on the estimated scale factor and the determined relative depth of the different regions, wherein the unit size for the far field region is selected so that there are at least twice as many units in the far field region as the number of units in the near field region and the unit size for the far field is at most half that of the unit size for the near field region; computer code for obtaining a new video frame of the same area captured by the representative view such that the regions, unit size, scale factor, and relative depth for the different regions are retained; computer code for processing the regions for objects in a divided manner and on a unit-by-unit basis for each of the different regions such that less processing time is spent processing the units of the near field region than the units of the far field region.