Patent ID: 7330567

Claim:
A human tracking apparatus, comprising: an upper body location detection module detecting at least one piece of upper body location for a human; a leg location detection module detecting at least one piece of leg location for the human; a tracking object selection module selecting a tracking object based on the at least one piece of upper body location and the at least one piece of leg location; and an operation module operating the human tracking apparatus for tracking the tracking object selected by the tracking object selection module, wherein the tracking object selection module comprises: a tracking candidate detector detecting information of upper body location and leg location included in a predetermined search range among information of the at least one piece of upper body location and the at least one piece of leg location as tracking candidate information; and a tracking object selector selecting the tracking object based on the tracking candidate information detected by the tracking candidate detector, and wherein the tracking object selector selects information of leg location closest to information of upper body location included in the tracking candidate as tracking object information when the tracking candidate includes information of a plurality of leg locations.