Security System Image Chronological Arrangement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current security systems require a long time for users to manually select and display images of suspects or guards involved in incidents, making it difficult to quickly grasp the chronological and visual behavior history related to accidents in monitoring areas.

Innovation Solution

A security system comprising cameras, recorders, sensors, and a video monitoring and display device that extracts and chronologically arranges captured images of suspects and guards, along with map information, using code detection devices to facilitate intuitive and visual display of behavior history.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If manual selection and display of images is used in the security system, then the system can display images of suspects or guards, but it requires a long time for users to manually select and display images, making it difficult to quickly grasp behavior history

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime required for manual image selectionVSAvoidease of image selection and display
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically extracting captured images of suspects and guards, and chronologically arranging them with map information before user request. This pre-processing eliminates the need for manual selection and significantly reduces the time required to grasp behavior history.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a simplified copy or representation of the complex video data by extracting key frames and arranging them chronologically with map information. This copied visual timeline allows users to quickly understand behavior history without manually searching through raw video feeds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Productivity

If automated extraction and chronological arrangement of images is implemented, then the system can quickly display behavior history, but the device complexity increases due to additional processing functions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeed of displaying behavior historyVSAvoidcomplexity of image processing and display system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The video monitoring and display device performs multiple functions: it monitors video feeds, extracts captured images, detects codes, retrieves map information, chronologically arranges data, and displays results. By making the system multi-functional, we achieve quick behavior history display without requiring separate dedicated devices for each processing step.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges multiple processing functions (image extraction, code detection, map information retrieval, chronological arrangement, and display) into a single integrated video monitoring and display device. This consolidation reduces overall system complexity while maintaining high productivity in displaying behavior history.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Loss of information

If the system displays both suspect and guard images with code information, then the system provides comprehensive behavior history, but the information processing and display complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of behavior history informationVSAvoidcomplexity of multi-target image processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the behavior history display into distinct components: suspect images, guard images, code detection results, and map information. Each component is processed and displayed separately but integrated in a unified chronological timeline, making the comprehensive information manageable and understandable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds a spatial dimension by integrating map information with the chronological timeline of images. This multi-dimensional presentation (time + space) allows comprehensive behavior history to be displayed in an organized manner that reduces processing complexity while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS10276007B2Security system and method for displaying images of people
Publication Date: 2019.04.30 PANASONIC I PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO LTD
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AI summary

A security system includes a camera that captures an image of a monitoring area, a recorder that stores the captured image which is captured by the camera, a sensor that detects a matter in the monitoring area, a video monitoring and display device that causes a monitor to display the captured image of the monitoring area from the camera or the recorder, and a BLE reception device that detects a signal from a BLE transmission terminal which is installed or maintained by a guard who patrols the monitoring area. In a case where the matter is detected in the monitoring area, the video monitoring and display device extracts the captured images of the suspect or the guard, chronologically arranges the captured images, and displays the captured images on the monitor. Furthermore, in a case where the video monitoring and display device displays the captured images of the guard, the video monitoring and display device also displays positional information of the BLE transmission terminal in association with the captured images of the guard.