Apparatus and methods for the semi-automatic tracking and examining of an object or an event in a monitored site
First Claim
1. A method for the investigation of an at least one object shown on an at least one first displayed video clip captured by an at least one first image capturing device in a monitored site, the method comprising:
- receiving a selection from a human operator of an at least one object in an at least one first video clip, said at least one object having an associated creation time and an associated disappearance time;
automatically displaying, in forward or backward direction or at a predetermined speed, an at least one second video clip with a field of view neighboring a field of view of the first video clip, starting at the predetermined time associated with the associated creation time of the at least one object in the first video clip or the associated disappearance time of the at least one object in the first video clip;
receiving a selection of a second object in said at least one second video clip responsive to an action of the human operator;
receiving from the human operator a manual association of the at least one object with said second object, the association identifying said second object as being the same as the least one object; and
based on said association, presenting in sequence the at least one first video clip and the at least one second video clip.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for the investigation of an object or an event in a video clip, by playing video clips of the object or objects associated with the events. The video frames comprised within the video clips comprise information regarding the creation time and coordinates of the objects appearing in multiple frames, thus enabling an operator to immediately play video clips tracking the object starting at the object'"'"'s creation time within the field of view, until its disappearance from the field of view. By defining neighboring regions, and keeping the creation time of each object within each video stream, an object is tracked between different fields of view.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for the investigation of an at least one object shown on an at least one first displayed video clip captured by an at least one first image capturing device in a monitored site, the method comprising:
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receiving a selection from a human operator of an at least one object in an at least one first video clip, said at least one object having an associated creation time and an associated disappearance time; automatically displaying, in forward or backward direction or at a predetermined speed, an at least one second video clip with a field of view neighboring a field of view of the first video clip, starting at the predetermined time associated with the associated creation time of the at least one object in the first video clip or the associated disappearance time of the at least one object in the first video clip; receiving a selection of a second object in said at least one second video clip responsive to an action of the human operator; receiving from the human operator a manual association of the at least one object with said second object, the association identifying said second object as being the same as the least one object; and based on said association, presenting in sequence the at least one first video clip and the at least one second video clip. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for the investigation of an at least one object shown on an at least one first displayed video clip captured by an at least one first image capturing device in a monitored site, the method comprising:
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receiving a selection from a human operator of an at least one object in an at least one first video clip, said at least one object having an associated creation time and an associated disappearance time; automatically displaying, in forward or backward direction or at a predetermined speed, an at least one second video clip with a field of view neighboring a field of view of the first video clip, starting at the predetermined time associated with the associated creation time of the at least one object in the first video clip or the associated disappearance time of the at least one object in the first video clip; receiving a selection of a second object in said at least one second video clip responsive to an action of the human operator; receiving from the human operator a manual association of the at least one object with said second object, the association identifying said second object as being the same as the least one object; based on said association, presenting in sequence the at least one first video clip and the least one second video clip; further recognizing an at least one event, based on predetermined parameters, the event involving the at least one object; and generating an alarm for the at least one event.
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