Patent Document ID: 7542080
Application ID: 11288301
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A measuring device for tracking an object, comprising: an image data input for inputting an image of the tracking object snapped by a camera; a tracker including a frame for extracting image data in a predetermined size from the image, wherein said frame is moved within the image and image data included within said frame is extracted from the image in each moved position and the number of pixels having a hue feature of the tracking object is counted based upon the extracted image data and a position of said frame in which said counted number of pixels is maximum is determined for every hue feature, and the position of the tracking object is calculated based upon the determined position of said frame; and a hue feature extractor extracting a hue feature of the tracking object by moving the frame to a position including at least a portion of the tracking object, extracting image data included in said frame, creating a hue histogram depending upon a hue value and the number of pixels having the hue value based from the extracted image data, choosing a conspicuous hue value based upon the created hue histogram and primarily storing the conspicuous hue value, moving the frame throughout the image excepting the position related to the primary storage, extracting image data included in the frame from the image at each position, counting the number of pixels having the primarily stored hue value, and setting the primarily stored hue value of the tracking object based upon a result of comparison of the counted number of pixels and a predetermined threshold value, wherein said hue feature extractor deletes the primarily stored hue value when the counted number of pixels is larger than the predetermined threshold value, said hue feature extractor secondarily stores the primarily stored hue value when the counted number of pixels is equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold value, and said hue feature extractor sets the secondarily stored hue value as a feature of the hue of the tracking object.