Patent ID: 8311384

Claim:
An image processing method comprising: receiving a sequence of image frames from a video camera; generating a computer generated object, and combining the computer generated object with the sequence of image frames so as to generate a sequence of augmented reality images; dividing each received image frame into a respective array of image motion cells; detecting inter-image motion in successive image frames for each motion cell; generating a motion object comprising one or more image motion cells, the image motion cells in the motion object corresponding to a set of image motion cells detected as comprising inter-image motion over a threshold number of image frames; detecting a relative distance between the computer generated object and the motion object within the augmented reality images; and generating a point of interest within a current image frame in dependence upon the detected distance between the computer generated object and the motion object so that the computer generated object can be caused to appear to interact with an image region corresponding to an image motion cell at the point of interest.