| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080240616 | Automatic camera calibration and geo-registration using objects that provide positional information - A video sequence of a field of view within an environment is received. Targets are detected in the video sequence. Target geo-positional information is received. Correspondences between the targets detected in the video sequence and the target geo-positional information are determined and used to calibrate the camera and to geo-register a field of view of the camera. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080291278 | Wide-area site-based video surveillance system - A computer-readable medium contains software that, when read by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for wide-area site-based surveillance. The method includes receiving surveillance data, including view targets, from a plurality of sensors at a site; synchronizing the surveillance data to a single time source; maintaining a site model of the site, wherein the site model comprises a site map, a human size map, and a sensor network model; analyzing the synchronized data using the site model to determine if the view targets represent a same physical object in the site; creating a map target corresponding to a physical object in the site, wherein the map target includes at least one view target; receiving a user-defined global event of interest, wherein the user-defined global event of interest is based on the site map and based on a set of rules; detecting the user-defined global event of interest in real time based on a behavior of the map target; and responding to the detected event of interest according to a user-defined response to the user-defined global event of interest. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090041297 | Human detection and tracking for security applications - A computer-based system for performing scene content analysis for human detection and tracking may include a video input to receive a video signal; a content analysis module, coupled to the video input, to receive the video signal from the video input, and analyze scene content from the video signal and determine an event from one or more objects visible in the video signal; a data storage module to store the video signal, data related to the event, or data related to configuration and operation of the system; and a user interface module, coupled to the content analysis module, to allow a user to configure the content analysis module to provide an alert for the event, wherein, upon recognition of the event, the content analysis module produces the alert. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090297023 | VIDEO SEGMENTATION USING STATISTICAL PIXEL MODELING - A method for segmenting video data into foreground and background ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100033567 | AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION OF PTZ CAMERA SYSTEM - In one exemplary embodiment a method calibrates a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera system. The PTZ camera system may include a PTZ camera. The method may perform at least one of the following steps: determining a radial distortion of the PTZ camera; determining a base focal length of the PTZ camera; determining a zoom and magnification profile of the PTZ camera; determining an actuation delay of the PTZ camera system; determining a pan position mode speed and/or a tilt position mode speed of the PTZ camera; determining a pan velocity profile and/or a tilt velocity profile of the PTZ camera; determining a zoom position profile and/or a zoom duration profile of the PTZ camera; determining a query delay of the PTZ camera system; and determining a minimum query interval of the PTZ camera system. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100225760 | VIEW HANDLING IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS - A method of video processing may include analyzing input video information to determine if a current video frame is directed to a same view as a previous video frame; determining whether a new view is present; and indicating a need to use video processing information pertaining to the new view if a new view is determined to be present. | 09-09-2010 |