Patent ID: 7064776

Claim:
An object movement tracking apparatus for detecting movements of an object from time-sequentially inputted images on real time basis comprising: an observing device for observing a scene including said object and for acquiring inputted image data at a rate more than a predetermined rate; an image memory device for temporally storing sequentially inputted image data from said observing device; and a computer for processing said sequentially inputted image data so as to track the movement of said object, wherein: said computer including memory for storing computer programs including: an object recognition module for selecting a frame among image data stored in said image memory device frame by frame and detecting position/posture of said object in the selected frame; and a movement tracking module for tracking the position/posture of said object in succeeding frames to the frame selected by said recognition module, wherein: the movement tracking module and the object recognition module being arranged such that the movement tracking of said object is recovered by the operation of said object recognition module and said movement tracking module in parallel while the object recognition module and the movement tracking module communicate with each other when tracking movement of the object fails.