Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080299946 | MOBILE BASED IDENTIFICATION IN SECURITY AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - This invention relates to using consumer devices, such as mobile telephones, to identify, authenticate, locate and contact users of security and asset management systems. Such consumer devices can be used not only with the security systems but also for other uses. A device is initially registered with the security system. As needed, the device is presented to the system for authentication, enabling a person access to a secure area. In addition, the system can determine the person's location in the secure area and can send information messages to the person as well as notifying the person in case of emergency. | 12-04-2008 |
20080309672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL VIDEO SCAN USING 3-D GEOMETRY - A system and method for providing digital video scan using 3-D geometry. The digital video scan system includes a 3-D scan scene maker for generating a plurality of video display units for displaying digital video data; a plurality of video producing devices producing a plurality of video feeds; a video scan sequencer receiving and organizing the plurality of video feeds into a predetermined order; a video rendering device rendering the digital video data from the plurality of video feeds for display within a separate one of the video display units; and video display apparatus displaying the digital video data from each video feed in the video display units. The plurality of video display units are positioned in a 3-D scene so that a plurality of video display units are at least partially viewable at the same time. Moreover, at intervals, the digital video data is incremented from one video display unit to another thus allowing an observer to view each digital video data in a foreground position. Furthermore, the observer is provided with a video data selector allowing the operator to select digital video data in one video display unit and move the selected digital video data to another video display unit. | 12-18-2008 |
20090021583 | CUSTOM VIDEO COMPOSITES FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS - A video surveillance system includes a plurality of video sources, where each video source is arranged to monitor and acquire video surveillance data within a field of view (FOV), a video manager connected to each of the plurality of video sources to control the video sources and to process video surveillance data acquired therefrom and a user interface connected to the video manager that allows an end-user to observe the FOVs from each of the plurality of video sources, and identify a region of interest (ROI) within particular FOVs to dynamically render a composite FOV comprising the ROIs from the particular FOVs. Where a video source includes enhanced abilities, such as a mega-pixel camera or video source, the enhanced video source may forward, instead of video data for the entire FOV, only that video dated from the selected ROI to realize reduced network traffic for more optimal video surveillance applications. | 01-22-2009 |
20090079831 | DYNAMIC TRACKING OF INTRUDERS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF ASSOCIATED VIDEO SCREENS - Tracking an intruder throughout regions in an area under surveillance by locating video cameras to provide an image for each region. For each camera a subset of the cameras are associated as auxiliary cameras to that camera; these associations are stored in a table. One camera is the initial primary camera and displays an initial primary image. An auxiliary video image is displayed for each of the auxiliary cameras that were previously associated with the initial primary camera. An intruder travels from region to region and leaves the primary video image and/or appears in an auxiliary video image. The user selects one of the auxiliary cameras to become a subsequent primary camera, and the video image from the subsequent primary camera is displayed as a subequent primary image. A video image for each of the auxiliary cameras previously associated with the subsequent primary camera will be displayed. | 03-26-2009 |
20090157516 | SMART DATA FILTER FOR POS SYSTEMS - The inventive system and method for processing transactional data in a point of sale environment that has a video device, a POS terminal and an end recording device comprises a configuration tool, and a filtering unit having a filter comprising subfilters for filtering transactional data, such that the configuration tool creates the filter. The configuration tool can create and/or modify the filter based on user input, and this input can be through a web interface. In the alternative, the system also has at least one pre-defined set of rules accessible through a web interface, such that the configuration tool uses one of the pre-defined sets of rules to create the filter. | 06-18-2009 |
20090172554 | INTRA OPERATOR FORENSIC META DATA MESSAGING - The inventive system and method for enabling interactive collaboration among video surveillance operators is presented. The device has a message including an incident or meta data having a source identifier, a meta data composer, a transport layer, and a display device, such that the message is packaged using the meta data composer and transmitted using the transport layer to the display device. One embodiment facilitates sharing using a common console, and the other facilitates sharing to one or more operators; both embodiments use a common Meta Data messaging mechanism. Meta data refers to any surveillance related data that is worthy of sharing between operators. It includes, but is not necessarily limited to, salvo information, camera, incident related data, video device location details, etc. | 07-02-2009 |
20090244285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CREATION OF ON-SIDE TEXT FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - A system and method for generating side-by-side video surveillance feed and point-of-service device text is provided. The system includes a video surveillance device, a point-of-service device such as an ATM, slot machine and point-of-sale device, and a synchronizing unit for synchronizing the video surveillance feed with point-of-service text when a security officer identifies activities matching a predetermined criteria occurring at the point-of-service device. The video surveillance feed is generated and processed for display on a security monitor. When an activities matching the predetermined criteria is identified near a point-of-service device, point-of-service text is received from the device. Both the video surveillance feed and the point-of-service text are displayed side-by-side so that neither data obscures the other. The video surveillance feed and the point-of-service text are also synchronized to one another and stored for later use. | 10-01-2009 |
20090315886 | METHOD TO PREVENT RESOURCE EXHAUSTION WHILE PERFORMING VIDEO RENDERING - The inventive system and method for preventing resource exhaustion while performing video rendering comprises calibrating resource utilization of operating parameters, obtaining input configuration comprising a priority order and source data, and controlling streaming and rendering frame rates by dropping data based on the input configuration. The operating parameters can comprise CPU, RAM, and GC usage. The source data can be resource utilization, a database and an application service. Dropping data can be performed using a throttling mechanism. In one embodiment, calibrating further comprises determining resource utilization using an input resolution and streaming at 1 FPS, determining resource utilization using the input resolution and streaming at 30 FPS, calculating an output resolution, if the output resolution does not exceed the input resolution, getting another input resolution, and determining resource utilization and calculating another output resolution, and determining resource utilization and calculating output resolution with rendering on. | 12-24-2009 |
20090327949 | INTERACTIVE OVERLAY WINDOW FOR A VIDEO DISPLAY - The present invention relates to video displays for surveillance camera systems, and in particular, to an overlay window and associated method for interacting with a video display. The overlay window comprises a plurality of geometric areas overlying video data containing a plurality of objects displayed on a video display. Each object is associated with at least one geometric area that is responsive to an input for generating a response from the associated object. | 12-31-2009 |
20100045791 | INFINITE RECURSION OF MONITORS IN SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods for representing and controlling a plurality of cameras in a monitoring station. A security system comprising a plurality of cameras transmits data streams to a monitoring station. The data stream has metadata describing a plurality of attributes for the data stream. The monitoring station is equipped with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to represent the plurality of data streams in various user-defined layouts. The method comprises generating a display layout for at least one of the plurality of data streams based on the plurality of attributes, displaying the display layout on one of a plurality of windows within the GUI, and providing the ability to recursively display a plurality of display layouts within the plurality of windows in any layout combination based on the attributes for the data streams within the plurality of display layouts. | 02-25-2010 |
20100077456 | OPERATOR DEVICE PROFILES IN A SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an administrator to create device profiles, and map specific device profiles to specific operators. The system comprises a surveillance device to record an event, an administrator station for receiving a data stream corresponding to the event and for assigning the data stream to a device profile based on a plurality of attributes in the metadata of the stream, and a broadcast engine for mapping the data stream alongside a plurality of data streams within the device profile to an operator station. The method comprises recording an event within a secure area via a surveillance device, generating a data stream corresponding to the recorded event, applying a plurality of attributes for the data stream, transmitting the data stream to an administrator station, assigning the data stream to a device profile based in part on the plurality of attributes for the data stream, and mapping the data stream along with a plurality of data streams within the device profile to an operator station over a network. | 03-25-2010 |
20100097471 | AUTOMATED WAY TO EFFECTIVELY HANDLE AN ALARM EVENT IN THE SECURITY APPLICATIONS - A number of monitoring stations provide input surveillance video sequences and sensor signals to a remote facility such as a central monitoring station for further processing. A user interface at the remote facility allows a user to select a received input surveillance video sequence for summarization processing. A control at the remote facility summarizes the selected input surveillance video sequence into one or more video segments of shorter temporal duration. Video segments summarized from the selected input surveillance video sequence are displayed. | 04-22-2010 |
20100157050 | PROCESS OF SEQUENTIALLY DUBBING A CAMERA FOR INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW - A system for and a method of creating a coherent video data stream of an object moving between a plurality of areas covered by a plurality of data collecting devices is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of data collecting devices from the plurality of data collecting devices, synchronizing video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices, substantially simultaneously reviewing the video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices, specifying periods of interest for the video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices, and sequentially combining portions of the video data streams into the coherent video data stream, the portions corresponding to the specified periods of interest. | 06-24-2010 |
20110242327 | INTELLIGENT CAMERA DISPLAY BASED ON SELECTIVE SEARCHING - A system and method for intelligent camera display based on selective searching is provided. The method includes searching a plurality of devices for compliance with a search criteria, and performing an action substantially simultaneously on all devices in the plurality of devices that are in compliance with the search criteria. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249123 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GROUP AND BROWSE CAMERAS IN A LARGE SCALE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - A system and method for grouping and browsing video data streams associated with cameras in a large scale surveillance system are provided. The method includes grouping a plurality of cameras associated with a surveillance system into a plurality of groups, selecting at least one group from the plurality of groups, displaying video data streams associated with a predetermined number of cameras in the selected group, and browsing through video data streams associated with all cameras in the selected group. | 10-13-2011 |
20110291831 | TIME BASED VISUAL REVIEW OF MULTI-POLAR INCIDENTS - A system and method for time based review of multi-polar incidents is provided. The method includes selecting at least one past alarm incident, and populating a floor plan map with representations of the past alarm incident and a set of alarms that were active during the past alarm incident. | 12-01-2011 |
20110293246 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANAGING NETWORK VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEMS - A system and method for managing a network video recording system are provided. The method includes interfacing a network video recording system with an end user operating system, and managing the network video recording system via the end user operating system. | 12-01-2011 |