500 results about "Smart camera" patented technology

A coordinated surveillance system uses a larger number of fixed low resolution detection smart camera devices and a smaller number of pan / tilt / zoom controllable high resolution tracking smart camera devices. The set of detection cameras provide overall continuous coverage of the surveillance region, while the tracking cameras provide localized high resolution on demand. Each monitor camera device performs initial detection and determines approximate GPS location of a moving target in its field of view. A control system coordinates detection and tracking camera operation. A selected tracking camera is controlled to focus in on, confirm detection, and track a target. Based on a verified detection, a guard station is alerted and compressed camera video is forwarded to the guard station from the camera(s). The guard station can direct a patrol guard to the target using GPS coordinates and a site map. Redundancy is provided by using multiple control units, each able to handle the full load in the event of failure. Camera devices vote on the status of the control units. A failed detection camera device can be temporarily replaced by a tracking camera device in a back-up mode of operation thus maintaining full overall basic coverage of the surveillance region.

The present invention involves a system for automatically screening closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras for large and small scale security systems, as used for example in parking garages. The system includes six primary software elements, each of which performs a unique function within the operation of the security system to provide intelligent camera selection for operators, resulting in a marked decrease of operator fatigue in a CCTV system. Real-time image analysis of video data is performed wherein a single pass of a video frame produces a terrain map which contains parameters indicating the content of the video. Based on the parameters of the terrain map, the system is able to make decisions about which camera an operator should view based on the presence and activity of vehicles and pedestrians, furthermore, discriminating vehicle traffic from pedestrian traffic. The system is compatible with existing CCTV (closed circuit television) systems and is comprised of modular elements to facilitate integration and upgrades.

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.

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.

A proxy video server for managing video surveillance data in a network that includes at least one video source and client. The proxy video server includes a proxy video source manager for managing the video sources to appear as virtual smart video sources to video clients, a video client interface for receiving and interpreting requests from video clients and sending responses to video clients on behalf of the video sources, one or more video source interfaces for sending requests to a video source using a protocol specific to the video source and for receiving and interpreting responses from a video source using a protocol specific to the video source and a video analytics service function for providing video analytics as needed in order to present smart camera capabilities for each video source to any video client.

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.

A system of secure control of a smart camera and transfer a media content from and to smart camera by a user communication device and an intermediate server, comprising: a smart camera, intermediate server and user communication device, which are connected to WAN. The intermediate server includes a SIPS-server, REST API Server, cloud storage, Public Key Infrastructure, private key and server certificate. The smart camera includes a built-in server, a SSD-storage, a client certificate, client private key and an intermediate server public key. The built-in server includes a SIPS-client and REST API Server and the user communication device includes a SIPS-client, a REST Client and a public key of said intermediate server. The smart camera and said user communication devices are connected to common local area networks (LAN) with communicating to wide area network (WAN) or cellular networks.

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.

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 camera system provides focused images to an operator at a host computer by processing digital images at the imaging location prior to sending them to the host computer. The smart camera has a resident digital signal processor for preprocessing digital images prior to transmitting the images to the host. The preprocessing includes image feature extraction and filtering, convolution and deconvolution methods, correction of parallax and perspective image error and image compression. Compression of the digital images in the smart camera at the imaging location permits the transmission of very high resolution color or high resolution grayscale images at real-time frame rates such as 30 frames per second over a high speed serial bus to a host computer or to any other node on the network, including any remote address on the Internet.

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.

A parking lot management system that works in cooperation with intelligent cameras is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of intelligent cameras connected to each other via a wired / wireless mesh network, a license plate recognition unit which can recognize a license plate of a vehicle entering and exiting a parking lot, a server for storing and managing information about the vehicle, a parking information board and a vehicle information about the position terminal which provide a user with parking information, and a personal computer for controlling all information.

The invention relates to a vehicle bias alarm method and relative system, for alarming driver to avoid bias 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, channel mark line recognizing module, vehicle direction parameter evaluation module, vehicle position parameter evaluation module, channel width evaluation module and channel bias 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 relates to an embedded vision detection system, which is provided with a multi-state power control unit, an image acquisition control and preprocessing unit, an image analysis unit and a human-computer interactive unit, wherein the operation of the system starts from the image acquisition control and preprocessing unit which is communicated with the human-computer interactive unit through a control bus and an image transmission bus (DMA mode) and is communicated with the image analysis unit through the control bus and a DSP video interface VIP; simultaneously the image analysis unit and the human-computer interactive unit interact information and are connected with each other through a parallel interface HPI; and the multi-state power control unit supplies mains voltage to the modules. Compared with the prior art, the embedded vision detection system integrates the characteristics of a PC vision system and an intelligent camera, shows both the high performance and the human-computer interactive ability, can simultaneously meet different applications of high real-time object detection, medium real-time object detection, high-resolution object detection, medium-resolution object detection, medium-distance object detection and far-distance object detection in the aspect of input by various video interfaces provided by the system, and can be completely used for high-complexity detection of objects in a high-speed flow line and output of the detection results.

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.