171 results about "Surveillance Methods" patented technology

Methods and systems for surveillance are described. One described method for use in a surveillance system having a camera, comprises generating a background image of the camera's field of regard, receiving a live video image of the camera's current field of view, wherein the field of view is within the field of regard, and correlating a position of the live video image within the background image.

A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.

A surveillance method comprises the steps of: sending information requests to one or more of a plurality of unmanned airborne platforms, each carrying one or more sensors for gathering information; coordinating processing of the requests among the plurality of airborne platforms; and transmitting responses to the requests to one or more requesters. A surveillance system that can be used to perform the method is also provided.

A surveillance method and system is provided for receiving image data from a plurality of said cameras; storing the received image data identifying each camera from which the image data originated; enabling each of a plurality of camera users who own or operate respective cameras to assign a said camera owned or operated by the camera user to at least one said set of cameras and to authorise selected users of the system to access image data from said at least one set of cameras, wherein said users of the system can include camera users and/or users not owning or operating any cameras; storing camera set data identifying the assigned camera as belonging to said set of cameras; storing user data identifying the users authorised to access image data from said set of cameras; and outputting image data to users dependent upon said camera set data and said user data.

A surveillance apparatus and an associated surveillance method are provided. The surveillance apparatus includes a video recorder, an infrared sensor and a motion detector. The surveillance method includes following steps. First, a video stream corresponding to a surveillance region is captured. Then, an infrared status of an infrared sensing region is sensed to selectively generate a trigger signal. The infrared sensing region and the surveillance region are partially overlapped. A motion detection signal according to the video stream is selectively generated. Whether a moving object is detected is determined according to the trigger signal and the motion detection signal.

The invention provides a surveillance method of an intelligent video surveillance system based on multi-camera data fusion. The method mainly comprises two aspects as follows: I, operation of an overall application program and II, a video processing algorithm API (application program interface) design and algorithm package. The overall application program realizes a video processing function through the call of the video processing algorithm API; and a technological process of the overall application program is as follows: the surveillance system enters a corresponding processing module according to a function of specific configuration, so that the overall surveillance for the monitored area and the surveillance for an area-of-interest are realized; configuration information can be set through a man-machine interaction interface, a wireless communication manner or a wired network; and the surveillance system comprises two surveillance system schemes, namely, digital video input and analog video input. The surveillance method of the intelligent video surveillance system based on multi-camera data fusion can be applied to a traffic surveillance system, door control, safety protection or other systems, and can realize functions such as background surveillance, area-of-interest extraction and surveillance, target tracking, target three-dimensional reconstruction and the like.

A video surveillance system comprises means (700, 800, 900) for monitoring a space under surveillance, the system comprises means (700, 800, 900, 702, 704, 706) for transmitting an alarm message over the radio path to at least one user terminal (170, 908), the system comprises means (702, 802, 902, 1100) for taking a pre-determined number of pictures at pre-determined intervals and the system comprises means (702, 802, 902, 1100) for transmitting pictures that have been processed as required by the transmission method over the radio path to a connecting device and the system comprises means (704, 804, 904) for further transmitting pictures that have been re-processed as required by the transmission method, if necessary, over the radio path to at least one user terminal (170, 908).

A surveillance system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the surveillance system may include at least one controller configured to receive information data from at least one upstream information source and to control operation of at least one controllable downstream information source based, at least in part, on the information data.

A surveillance method also is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may include analyzing screening data, obtaining information data, and reanalyzing the screening data based, at least in part, on the obtained information data.

Based on the Internet, such as video surveillance methods, the monitoring nodes, the nodes customer service nodes of these three types of nodes based on the existing Internet component video surveillance network, which is a joint monitoring with the video network devices, the digital video signal compression and coding, through the Internet and video data will be sent directly to customers node; customers nodes is a function of a network terminal equipment, directly through network access control node from the video surveillance data show that after the video decoder; service node is a public IP address with the network equipment to assist customers nodes and monitoring network nodes to establish direct links, so as to achieve control nodes directly with the client node data exchange. This invention does away with the existing network video monitoring system in the video server performance bottlenecks, a client node and control nodes, and so on (peer to peer) direct data exchange program, which completely resolve the existing video surveillance technology can not solve the contradiction.

The invention discloses a method and device for obtaining user login information based on an enterprise application system, relating to the technical field of networks. Because of adopting a bypass surveillance process, the method and the device for obtaining user login information based on the enterprise application system realize network behavior filter according to key a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a keyword to find and identify login action, collect user login information and carry out user login journal audition. The method and the device have the following advantages that: (1) bypass surveillance is a monitoring program of a network layer, can also restore the HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) request of an application layer, can analyze and identify the content of the HTTP request and judge a login result according to the content; and (2) a bypass surveillance method has no affect on the operation of the traditional system, does not change the traditional operation environment, and is simple and reliable to apply.

A mobile body surrounding surveillance 1A apparatus according to the present invention includes: an image capturing section 2; a particular region setting section 31 for setting a particular region for image data captured by the image capturing section; an own mobile body movement direction detection section 11 for detecting a movement direction of the own mobile body and outputting a movement direction information indicating the detected movement direction; a movement vector information extraction section for taking the image data of the particular region for each of one or a plurality of frame images captured by the image capturing section in time series and adjusting a detection sensitivity based on the movement direction information so as to extract a movement vector information on another mobile body; and a change detection section 35 for detecting a moving state of the other mobile body which is present in the surrounding of the own mobile body based on the movement vector information.

A video surveillance method and system controls and distributes video signals from multiple surveillance cameras to multiple video clients by receiving a single original video signal stream from a camera and simultaneously converting it a plurality of video streams, with each video stream having a different video quality parameter. The different quality parameters may be different resolutions, degrees of compression, different frame rates, presence or absence of colors, intensity of colors, different contrast levels and different brightness levels. The video clients are entitled to access specified video quality parameters, and are simultaneously sent the converted video streams with the different video quality parameter to which they are entitled to access.

The present invention provides a system and method of surveillance to support an early intensive surveillance setup in surrounding areas on the locality of a hazard. A surveillance system of the present invention comprises two or more surveillance terminals and a surveillance center to which the surveillance terminals are connected via a network. Each surveillance terminal comprises a hazard detecting unit, a hazard signal sending unit, and a video data sending unit. The surveillance center comprises a unit for detecting a hazard signal from one or more of the surveillance terminals and a command sending unit for sending a surveillance command to the two or more surveillance terminals. In response to a hazard occurring, the surveillance center changes a surveillance setup of a surveillance terminal which has just detected the hazard and surveillance terminals falling in surrounding areas on the hazard locality, so that target zonal cooperative surveillance is performed.

The present invention is directed to a low-cost, remotely accessible surveillance method and system easily adaptable for personal or small-entity use. In one example embodiment, a request for image data is delivered via a first communications system, such as a telephone system, to a programmable surveillance system. The programmable surveillance system has a camera adapted to capture images that are processed as data by a first computer arrangement. In response to the request from the first communications system, the programmable surveillance system automatically accesses and delivers image data captured by the camera to a second communications system. A second computer arrangement is adapted to communicatively couple with the second communications system and to receive and process data including the image data delivered by the first computer arrangement. The received image data is displayed using the second computer arrangement, facilitating on-demand, remote image monitoring.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a digital video surveillance method, a digital video surveillance system and a digital video surveillance platform for a moving object, wherein the method comprises the steps as follows: a video surveillance client side detects coordinates (x1, y1) of the moving object that is clicked on a monitoring picture of a main video camera by a user, and sends thecoordinates to the digital video surveillance platform; the digital video surveillance platform calculates coordinates difference value (x, y) between the coordinates (x1, y1) of the moving object and center coordinates (x2, y2) of the monitoring picture, wherein, x equals to x2 minus x1, and y equals to y2 minus y1; and the digital video surveillance platform controls a tripod head to rotate according to the coordinates difference value (x, y), so as to lead the moving object to be positioned in the center range of the monitoring picture. The embodiment of the invention can effectively trackthe moving object, and can achieve the video surveillance on the moving object.