Patent Document ID: 9001207
Application ID: 13325834
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A motion detection method of a video camera comprising: calculating by the video camera differences for a sum of accumulated differences (ΔSAD) for corresponding macroblocks in successive frames of video; for each of the macroblocks in each of the successive frames, identifying by the video camera the macroblock as a motion-generative macroblock if the ΔSAD for the macroblock is greater than a motion-threshold value, or if the ΔSAD for the macroblock is greater than a flooding-threshold value and if the macroblock in a previous frame is in a region of connected macroblocks; identifying by the video camera regions of connected macroblocks such that each of the regions of connected macroblocks contains at least one motion generative macroblock and contains macroblocks connected to the motion generative macroblock via a sequence of macroblocks and the macroblocks in the sequence of macroblocks each has a ΔSAD value greater than the flooding threshold, wherein the macroblocks in the sequence of macroblocks touch at at least one point, and wherein the regions of connected macroblocks in a frame define a candidate-motion region in a frame; forming by the video camera a bounding box around each of the candidate-motion regions; if corresponding bounding boxes in a plurality of successive frames have substantially the same location, size, and shape in the plurality of successive frames, and if the plurality of successive frames are in a temporal window of successive frames, then determining by the video camera that the corresponding bounding boxes indicates motion otherwise determining that the corresponding bounding boxes do not indicate motion.