Patent Document ID: 8238608
Application ID: 13163572
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method performed by one or more processes executing on a computer system, the method comprising: receiving, through a graphical user interface, input specifying an image frame from among a series of image frames; displaying the specified image frame in the graphical user interface; automatically detecting one or more points in the specified image frame that are suitable for tracking a point in the series of image frames; highlighting, on the specified image frame displayed in the graphical user interface, the one or more points detected to be suitable for tracking a point in the series of image frames; receiving, through the graphical user interface, a selection of a point from among the one or more points highlighted on the specified image frame to be tracked in the series of image frames; tracking the selected point in multiple image frames from the series of image frames; and displaying, in the graphical user interface, at least a portion of another image frame from the multiple image frames concurrently with a representation of a current position of the tracked point within the other image frame and with a representation of an initial position of the tracked point within the specified image frame.