497 results about "Smart camera" patented technology

A networked digital security system is disclosed that preferably includes a centralized administrator web server coupled via a communication network such as the Internet to a plurality of customer servers and a plurality of customer work stations. The centralized web server advantageously provides a point of control and management of the networked digital security system. The customer servers and customer work stations are preferably located at the customer's monitored sites. The customer servers are coupled to one or more intelligent camera units, which are preferably fully integrated intelligent units that gather, analyze, and transmit video, audio, and associated detected alarm event information to their associated customer server and the administrator web server. The camera units also include an intelligent automatic gain controller, an encoder buffer controller, and a network bandwidth priority controller. The system supports several compression algorithm standards.

Methods and systems for creating video from multiple sources utilize intelligence to designate the most relevant sources, facilitating their adjacent display and/or catenation of their video streams.

This invention describes a video surveillance system which is composed of three key components 1—smart camera(s), 2—server(s), 3—client(s), connected through IP-networks in wired or wireless configurations. The system has been designed so as to protect the privacy of people and goods under surveillance. Smart cameras are based on JPEG 2000 compression where an analysis module allows for efficient use of security tools for the purpose of scrambling, and event detection. The analysis is also used in order to provide a better quality in regions of the interest in the scene. Compressed video streams leaving the camera(s) are scrambled and signed for the purpose of privacy and data integrity verification using JPSEC compliant methods. The same bit stream is also protected based on JPWL compliant methods for robustness to transmission errors. The operations of the smart camera are optimized in order to provide the best compromise in terms of perceived visual quality of the decoded video, versus the amount of power consumption. The smart camera(s) can be wireless in both power and communication connections. The server(s) receive(s), store(s), manage(s) and dispatch(es) the video sequences on wired and wireless channels to a variety of clients and users with different device capabilities, channel characteristics and preferences. Use of seamless scalable coding of video sequences prevents any need for transcoding operations at any point in the system.

A plurality of camera devices are configured to localize one another based on visibility of each neighboring camera in an image plane. Each camera device captures images and identifies sightings of candidate targets. The camera device share information about sightings and triangulate positions of targets. Targets are matched to known tracks based on prior images, allowing targets to be tracked in a 3D environment.

Aspects of a method and system for change detection in localization and tracking of objects in a smart video camera are provided. A programmable surveillance video camera comprises processors for detecting objects in a video signal based on an object mask. The processors may generate a textual representation of the video signal by utilizing a description language to indicate characteristics of the detected objects, such as shape, texture, color, and/or motion, for example. The object mask may be based on a detection field value generated for each pixel in the video signal by comparing a first observation field and a second observation field associated with each of the pixels. The first observation field may be based on a difference between an input video signal value and an estimated background value while the second observation field may be based on a temporal difference between first observation fields.

The present invention provides a system and method for medication administration monitoring including, in an embodiment, a smart imaging device (smart camera) positioned to monitor a treatment administration area and to provide image representative data of a treatment episode; an image processor, coupled to the smart imaging device, for processing the image representative data to identify medical supplies used during the treatment episode. The system further includes a storage processor for storing, in a record associated with the patient, data concerning the treatment episode comprising, the image representative data, associated data identifying medical supplies, data identifying a patient treated, and a time and date of the treatment episode.

A smart mesh network surveillance system and method for providing communication between a base system having at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and other ICD(s), wherein the ICD(s) are capable of smart cross-communication with each other and remote access to their inputs via a server computer, including the steps of providing this base system; at least one user accessing the ICDs and inputs remotely via a user interface through a remote server computer and/or electronic device communicating with it, wherein the captured data is represented visually on a user interface or screen views for the user, the screen views showing 2-dimensional data and corresponding 3-dimensional data of the same input capture with coordinate overlay to provide a geographic context for the captured data.

The invention relates to a vehicle anti-impact alarm method and relative system, for alarming driver to avoid impact and accidence. The output of inverter power and one end of relay is connected with an output signal interface of an intelligent camera, the picture information collecting module, vehicle character extracting module, information analyzing module, vehicle position tracking module, ranging speed measuring module and anti-impact alarm module are embedded in the chip of the camera, while the intelligent camera via a mounting support is fixed in the front windscreen glass of cabin, and said six modules should started in serially to realize the alarm method.

The invention discloses an automatic snapshot device and method for illegal parking. The automatic snapshot device comprises a front-end snapshot unit, a transmission network and a management server. The front-end snapshot unit comprises an electric zoom lens, an intelligent camera and a tripod head. The electric zoom lens is arranged at the front end of the intelligent camera and connected with the intelligent camera. The intelligent camera is arranged on the tripod head and further connected with the management server through the transmission network. The automatic snapshot method comprises the steps that the front-end snapshot unit monitors the whole monitoring area through a wide-angle lens and tracks the motion trail of all vehicles within the monitoring area; when a parking event is found through the trail tracking mode, the barycenter and area of the parking vehicle are determined; the rotation angle and pitch angle of the tripod head are determined through geometric operations; the tripod head is controlled so that the target can be located in the center of an image; the size, in the image, of the target is adjusted through lens zoom control so as to be suitable for image analysis, namely license number recognition; after the license number recognition is completed, the intelligent camera controls the electric zoom lens to restore to a wide-angle monitoring mode.

Various techniques are disclosed for smart surveillance camera systems and methods using thermal imaging to intelligently control illumination and monitoring of a surveillance scene. For example, a smart camera system may include a thermal imager, an IR illuminator, a visible light illuminator, a visible/near IR (NIR) light camera, and a processor. The camera system may capture thermal images of the scene using the thermal imager, and analyze the thermal images to detect a presence and an attribute of an object in the scene. In response to the detection, various light sources may be selectively operated to illuminate the object only when needed or desired, with a suitable type of light source, with a suitable beam angle and width, or in otherwise desirable manner. The visible/NIR light camera may also be selectively operated based on the detection to capture or record surveillance images containing objects of interest.

The invention provides an intelligent target scoring system and method based on a multi-bullet-hole mode recognition algorithm. The system comprises a sound control sensor, a swarm intelligence camera, a supervisory control computer and a mobile client. The intelligence camera is arranged in front of targets. Shooting signals trigger the intelligence camera to collect images through the sound control sensor. A target surface positioning correction algorithm, a multi-bullet-hole recognition sorting algorithm and a target scoring algorithm are used for acquiring the bullet hole type and shooting scoring information in real time, and then the information is uploaded to the supervisory control computer and the mobile client through an internal WIFI module. The mobile client conducts voice target scoring, the supervisory control computer displays the shooting scoring information of each shooter in real time, and a user interface is provided for performing statistical query and intelligent management on the shooting information. According to the intelligent target scoring system and method, shooting target scoring of each target is independent and does not depend on the supervisory control computer, the structure is simple, and safety and reliability are achieved; and meanwhile, the provided mode recognition method is high in antijamming capability, the bullet hole recognition rate is high and real-time performance and accuracy can be achieved.

The invention provides a vision-guided trajectory planning method on the basis of a Delta robot joint space. The method is applied to the optimal time motion of a Delta robot. The method comprises the following steps: solving a kinematic relation of the Delta robot; establishing an inverse kinematical equation for a motion from an end effector to each joint; acquiring a target position through an industrial intelligent camera; updating the target position on real time through an encoder; dividing a working area of the Delta robot into 9*13 subareas; planning the motion route of each joint at different areas through a B spline offline; maintaining smooth and continuous speed, acceleration and jerk; reducing the impact of a servo motor to a mechanical structure; improving the typical particle swarm optimization; speeding up to search time nodes with optimal solution by the fractional order particle swarm optimization in order to avoid local optimal solution; then performing the two-dimensional fuzzy method to select the optimal time node corresponding to the working area of the robot on line, and thus finishing control.

The invention discloses an industrial intelligent camera. The camera is composed of a host device and a set of parameter setting software. The host device is installed on an industrial production line to run independently to realize the machine vision detection function of product quality. The parameter setting software operates in the same way as a PC. The machine is used for the initial configuration of the host device. The camera is not only small in size, low in manufacturing cost, easy to install and use, but also has strong versatility. It provides a variety of machine vision inspection tools, and users can select and combine these inspection tools in a visual way according to specific inspection tasks. , realize software customization, and quickly adapt to the detection of various products. Inspection tools involve dimension measurement, barcode, two-dimensional code recognition, character recognition, color, grayscale recognition, feature matching, defect detection and other machine vision inspection methods, and can automatically correct the rotation and translation of the workpiece.

An autonomous guided vehicle system that provides decentralized coordination and real-time environmental changes in a workspace to a vehicle. The system includes distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations. The cameras are adapted to communicate with other cameras to coordinate the movement of the vehicles from a source to a destination.

The invention provides an industrial intelligent camera which comprises an imaging module, a master control module, a transmission module, a power module and a storage module. The imaging module comprises a CMOS image sensor and a peripheral circuit; the master control module is an FPGA chip and comprises an image collecting control module, an image pre-processing module, an image advanced processing module, a transmission control module and a storage control module. According to the industrial intelligent camera, all image processing functions are achieved through the FPGA chip, the complex interactive design of an FPGA and a DSP is avoided, and the advantages that algorithms of the FPGA is achieved through a hardware circuit, so that the processing speed is high, and performance is stable are sufficiently played; the industrial intelligent camera is high in integration degree, small in overall size, small in weight, less in power dissipation and particularly suitable for application occasions with high requirements for the camera size and the image processing speed.

The invention discloses an O-shaped ring assembling device which comprises a turntable device, a first feeding device, a first detection sensor, a second feeding device, a second detection sensor and a discharging device. When the O-shaped ring assembling device is in operation, only one operator is needed to perform related assisting, and the operator firstly puts an O-shaped ring workpiece to be assembled on an assembly station of a turntable working table. After the device is started, the first feeding device, the first detection sensor, the second feeding device, the second detection sensor, an intelligent camera detection device and the discharging device which are arranged around the turntable device perform automatic matched operation, a first O-shaped ring and a second O-shaped ring are quickly and accurately assembled on the workpiece, and accepted product and defective product classification and output are performed, so that the O-shaped ring assembling device is simple in operation, high in production efficiency and capable of achieving automatic operation to the most extent and greatly saving labor.