Imaging apparatus and method of providing imaging information

• US 10,116,910 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2016
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hanwha Vision Company Limited (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, Jeongeun, Noh, Seungin, Choi, Eunji
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung
• Application Number:
  US15/217,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20160330425A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 386223-224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

Provided is an imaging apparatus which includes: a video reproducer reproducing a video and a heatmap of the video on a display in a selective manner between overlapping the video and the heatmap with each other and displaying the video and the heatmap on different areas, respectively; a sub-heatmap area setter setting a plurality of sub-heat map areas on the heatmap; and a video summarizer providing a video summary of the video selectively to a summary area selected from among the sub-heatmap areas or to an area different from the sub-heatmap areas, respectively, wherein the video reproducer also reproduces a portion of the video corresponding on an interest area selected from among the sub-heatmap areas, and the at least one summary area and the at least one interest area are a same area or different areas in the heatmap.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a video reproducer configured to reproduce a video and a heatmap of the video on a display;

a sub-heatmap area setter configured to set a plurality of sub-heatmap areas on the heatmap; and

a video summarizer configured to provide at least one video summary of the video to at least one summary area selected from among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, respectively,

wherein the video reproducer is configured to provide a three-dimensional (3D) area on the plurality of sub-heatmap areas in which a portion of the video and heatmap data of the portion of the video are displayed on different facets of the 3D area.

2. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video reproducer is further configured to reproduce the at least one portion of the video on at least one sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which corresponds to the at least one selected interest area, respectively, and provide heatmap data on at least one sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which does not correspond to the at least one selected interest area.

3. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the heatmap comprises statistical data, and the statistical data comprises at least one of object classification data, color classification data, movement detection data, object data, and event data.

4. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video reproducer is further configured to provide heatmap data along with the at least one video summary to the at least one selected summary area.

5. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video summarizer is configured to provide a video summary on a sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which corresponds to the at least one selected summary area, and

wherein the video reproducer is further configured to provide heatmap data on a sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which does not correspond to the at least one selected summary area.

6. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein, in response to selection of multiple summary areas among the at least one summary area, the imaging apparatus is configured to provide an interface for selecting a same or different video analysis options for each of the selected summary areas.

7. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video reproducer is configured to provide heatmap data along with the at least one video summary to the at least one selected summary area such that the heatmap data and the at least one video summary overlap with each other.

8. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video reproducer configured to reproduce a video and a heatmap of the video on a display in a selective manner between overlapping the video and the heatmap with each other and displaying the video and the heatmap on different areas on the display, respectively.

9. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video and the heatmap reproduced by the video reproducer correspond to a time section selected by a user.

10. The imaging apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video reproducer is configured to provide heatmap data on the heatmap and reproduce the video on an area different from the heatmap on the display.

11. A method of providing imaging information to an imaging apparatus, the method comprising:

reproducing a video and a heatmap of the video on a display;

setting a plurality of sub-heat map areas on the heatmap;

reproducing at least one portion of the video on at least one interest area selected from among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, respectively; and

providing a three-dimensional (3D) area on the plurality of sub-heatmap areas in which a portion of the video and heatmap data of the portion of the video are displayed on different facets of the 3D area.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

reproducing the at least one portion of the video on at least one sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which corresponds to the at least one selected interest area, respectively; and

providing heatmap data on at least one sub-heatmap area, among the plurality of sub-heatmap areas, which does not correspond to the at least one selected interest area.

13. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a video reproducer configured to reproduce a video and a heatmap of the video on a display; and

a sub-heatmap area setter configured to set at least one sub-heatmap area on the heatmap,

wherein the sub-heatmap area setter provides an interface for setting the at least one sub-heatmap area, and

wherein the video reproducer is configured to provide a three-dimensional (3D) area on the sub-heatmap area in which a portion of the video and heatmap data of the portion of the video are displayed on different facets of the 3D area.

14. The imaging apparatus of claim 13, the interface is provided in a live view.

15. The imaging apparatus of claim 13, wherein the heatmap comprises statistical data, and the statistical data comprises at least one of object classification data, color classification data, movement detection data, object data, appearance frequency data of person in the video and event data.

16. The imaging apparatus of claim 13, wherein the heatmap is displayed by overlapping at least one layer on the video.

17. The imaging apparatus of claim 13, the interface is further provided to set a name of each sub-heatmap.

18. The imaging apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a video summarizer configured to provide at least one video summary of the video to at least one summary area selected from among the at least one sub-heatmap area, respectively.