Exactly, it will be useful to determine a change in colour (i.e. a rudimentary motion detection). This is how I would use it also... take a i.e. 150x100 pixel rectangle and determine the mean colour (I will do tests to work out which colour channel red, green, blue or full RGB gives the most accurate result) and compare this from the previous mean value. I've done a few tests in Photoshop using the histogram and a pattern definitely is there when there is movement in that area, it looks like a very promising solution.
Usage examples [idea]
FFMeanPixels(<colour channels>)
-- colour channels (string): R for red, G for green, B for blue, doesn't matter which order>
FFMeanPixels("RGB") or just FFMeanPixels()
--> Will return the mean colour of pixels for full RGB channel
--> Will calculate the mean of all the channels combined i.e. (R_mean+G_mean+B_mean)/3
FFMeanPixels("GB")
--> returns the mean colour pixels for green & blue channel
--> (G_mean+B_mean)/2