Remote Camera Image Analysis for Scene Change Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network communication systems for monitoring and viewing images from cameras require manual intervention to view footage, limiting real-time remote monitoring and response capabilities, especially in security and safety applications.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables remote monitoring and viewing of images from cameras by analyzing image data for scene changes, sending notifications, and allowing users to view images upon confirmation of events through a network, using a media system with receiving, analysis, and communication modules.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If manual viewing of camera footage is required, then system complexity is reduced, but real-time monitoring capability and response speed deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically analyzes image data to detect scene changes and sends notifications without requiring manual intervention. The media system autonomously processes camera footage, identifies events, and communicates with users, enabling self-service operation that improves response speed while maintaining acceptable system complexity through automated processing
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where image data is continuously analyzed, scene changes are detected, and notifications are sent to users. This automated feedback mechanism enables real-time monitoring and rapid response to events without manual viewing, resolving the contradiction between speed and complexity
2Speed
If continuous image transmission is implemented, then real-time monitoring capability is improved, but network bandwidth consumption and data transmission load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential information from continuous camera footage by analyzing image data for scene changes. Instead of transmitting all continuous video data, the system extracts and transmits only notifications when changes occur, reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining real-time monitoring capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the continuous stream of image data into discrete analysis cycles, processing images individually to detect changes. This segmentation approach allows the system to maintain real-time monitoring by analyzing each image while reducing overall data transmission load by only sending notifications for actual changes rather than continuous streams
3Productivity
If manual viewing of footage is required, then data transmission requirements are reduced, but monitoring efficiency and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The media system automatically analyzes image data and generates notifications for scene changes without requiring manual intervention. This self-service capability improves monitoring efficiency by continuously processing data while maintaining information availability through automated notification delivery to users
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method are provided for remotely monitoring images from an image capturing device. Image data from an image capturing component is received where image data represents images of a scene in a field of view of the image capturing component. The image data may be analyzed to determine that the scene has changed. A determination may be made that the scene has changed. In response to this determination being made, a communication may be transmitted to a designated device, recipient or network location. The communication may be informative that a scene change or event occurred. The communication may be in the form of a notification or an actual image or series of images of the scene after the change or event.