Patent Document ID: 20090110240
Application ID: 12124713
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting one or more moving objects in a stream of images taken at successive instants, comprising steps consisting in: generating (at 10 ) a first binary image indicating, for each zone of at least 1 pixel of the current image, a first or a second value according respectively to whether it belongs or does not belong to a moving object, characterized in that it further comprises steps consisting in: determining (at 14 ), along at least one predefined orientation and direction, for each zone of the first binary image having the first value, whether a zone also having the first value exists in at least one first binary image produced during a preceding movement detection in a preceding image of the stream; and generating (at 18 ) a second binary image indicating the first value exclusively for the zones of the first binary image for which the preceding search is positive and, if not, indicating the second value, the zones of the second binary image having the first value defining the moving objects identified in the current image.