Appeal No. 1997-1008
Application No. 08/328,394
The invention is directed to the selection of objects
from a moving image sequence of images. Auxiliary data is
stored in a
buffer, along with a video track, so as to precisely identify
objects which can be selected from within each frame of the
video track.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method for labeling and subsequently identifying
selected areas within images from a sequence of
temporally related images represented by a plurality of
tracks
of image data which are operative to be displayed by
a display of a computer, the computer having a memory for
storing the plurality of tracks, wherein one of the
plurality of tracks is operative to be displayed by
the computer at the same time as a second track of
the
plurality of tracks, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) identifying an area to be labeled within an
image from said sequence of images;
(b) labeling every pixel within said identified
area with an area identifier which is unique to
said area;
(c) storing each labeled pixel in a labeled
portion of memory linked to said image;
(d) repeating steps (a) through (c) for each
identified area within each image from said
sequence of images;
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