Moving object detection, tracking, and displaying systems

A method of detecting and tracking one or more moving objects, implemented on a computing device with a processor, the method comprising:

• displaying a camera image that comprises indicia of one or more objects in a first graphical user interface window of a display;
• detecting, with the processor, a potentially moving object within the camera image;
• determining, with the processor that the potentially moving object is a moving object;
• tracking, with the processor, the moving object, wherein tracking comprises;
• simultaneously showing, in a second graphical user interface window of the display, a contrast view of the moving object, wherein the contrast view comprises a plurality of rasters, each raster comprising a row of pixels corresponding to a compressed view of the displayed camera image, wherein the plurality of rasters comprises a path against a background wherein the background comprises a first color and the path comprises a second color, wherein the path comprises a plurality of successively plotted past locations and ending with a real-time current location of the moving object;
• generating the plurality of rasters, wherein generating a raster comprises using the processor to successively compare a first position of the moving object in a first camera image with a second position of the moving object in a second camera image, and highlighting a pixel corresponding to a portion of the compressed view containing a detected moving object;
• updating the second graphical user interface after each successive comparison by adding a new raster representative of a newly detected real-time current position of the moving object in a last-taken camera image, and wherein a new raster is added to the plurality of rasters such that, over time, the path grows as each new raster is added, wherein the new raster representative of the newly detected real-time current position of the moving object is determined by an algorithm, wherein the algorithm is configured to analyze each pixel in the raster, detects and records a change in pixel characteristics above a threshold;
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• wherein the first and second graphical user interface windows are provided in separate viewing windows such that they may be viewed simultaneously.

A moving object tracking system, implemented on a computer with a processing unit comprising:

• a display comprising:
• a first window that includes a camera image of an area presented on the display, the camera image of the area having within the camera image a plurality of detected moving objects, wherein the camera image is periodically updated such that the first window displays a real-time current position of the plurality of detected moving objects;
• a second window that includes information about a past location, a real-time current location, and an estimated future location for each of the plurality of moving detected objects, wherein the information about the past locations comprise a path presented against a contrasting background, and wherein the real-time current location comprises an indicator at an end of the path;
• a third window that provides a zoom view of one of the plurality of detected moving objects along with an indication of the portion of the first or second window being shown in the third window;
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• wherein the first and second windows are presented simultaneously and wherein the second window updates automatically based on a comparison of a series of changing positions of each of the plurality of detected moving objects in the camera image;
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• wherein the processing unit is a functional part of the system that executes computer readable instructions to generate the first, second and third windows on the display and wherein the processing unit is configured to receive a series of successive camera images, analyze the series of successive camera images by identifying a change in position of a moving object between two successive camera images, and generate a raster indicative of the detected motion, wherein the processing unit is configured to display the camera image in the first window of the display, and further configured to update the second window by adding the generated raster to a series of previously generated rasters.