Management system, server, management device, and management method

• US 10,354,506 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Aoyama
• Original Assignee: Hiroshi Aoyama
• Inventors: Aoyama, Hiroshi, Aji, Hirokazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghulamali, Qutbuddin
• Application Number:
  US15/552,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20180047270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 3405681
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2462 Asset location systems combined with EAS inventory, tracking, logistic G06Q10/00; entrance control systems G07C9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/04 using a single signalling line, e.g. in a closed loop
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• 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 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/915 for field- or frame-skip recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Provided is a management system in which required capacity of a storage device can be reduced even when the number of events that occur increases and in which the required capacity can be clearly understood. A management system 100 includes: an information storage member 110 that stores individual identification information I of a management target 200; an information reading device 120 that reads individual identification information I from the information storage member 110 located within a predetermined distance from the information reading device 120; an imaging device 130 that generates continuous image data V by continuously capturing images of at least an area where the information reading device 120 can read the individual identification information I from the information storage member 110; a storage device 140 that stores the continuous image data V; a control device 150 that acquires an event occurrence time at which an event related to the individual identification information I read by the information reading device 120 has occurred, and sets in the continuous image data V a playback start time corresponding to the event occurrence time; and a display device 160 capable of displaying an image G based on the continuous image data V.

Claims

1. A management system comprising:

an information storage member that stores individual identification information of a management target;

an information reading device that reads the individual identification information from the information storage member when the information storage member is located within a predetermined area proximate the information reading device, wherein the predetermined area covers an entire area in which the information reading device reads the individual identification information;

an imaging device that generates continuous image data by continuously capturing images of at least an entirety of the predetermined area;

a storage device that stores the continuous image data;

a control device that acquires an event occurrence time at which an event related to the individual identification information read by the information reading device has occurred, and embeds a tag of a playback start time corresponding to the event occurrence time in the continuous image data to configure setting; and

a display device capable of displaying an image based on the continuous image data.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the control device causes the display device to display a playback start key corresponding to the event, accepts selection of the playback start key, and causes the display device to play back the image based on the continuous image data from the playback start time corresponding to the selected playback start key.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the imaging device includes a plurality of cameras, and

a plurality of pieces of the continuous image data captured by the plurality of cameras are stored in the storage device.

4. The management system according to claim 1, wherein based on the individual identification information, the control device causes the storage device to store at least one of a number of the information storage members, a type of the information storage members, a time at which the information reading device first reads the individual identification information, and a time at which the information reading device reads the individual identification information last time.

5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the event includes a case where the information reading device reads specific individual identification information.

6. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the event includes a case where the information reading device that has read specific individual identification information can no longer read the individual identification information which is identical to the specific individual identification information.

7. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the information storage member is attached to the management target managed in a management area,

the management area includes:

a management location set in the management area; and

a gateway through which the management target carried into and out of the management area passes, and

the imaging device continuously captures images of the management area and the gateway.

8. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the information reading device includes:

a first information reading unit that reads the individual identification information from the information storage member located at the management location; and

a second information reading unit that reads the individual identification information from the information storage member located at the gateway, and

the event includes a case where, after each of the first information reading unit and the second information reading unit reads specific individual identification information, each of the first information reading unit and the second information reading unit no longer reads the specific individual identification information for a predetermined time period or longer.

9. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

the gateway includes an entrance through which the management target carried into the management area passes, and an exit through which the management target carried out of the management area passes, the exit being provided separately from the entrance, and

the entrance and the exit are individually provided with the information reading device.

10. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

the gateway includes a first gateway through which the management target carried into and out of the management area passes, and a second gateway through which the management target carried into and out of the management area passes, the second gateway being provided separately from the first gateway, and

the first gateway and the second gateway are individually provided with the information reading device.

11. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the information storage member is an RFID tag, and

the information reading device is an RFID reader.

14. A management method using the management system of claim 1, comprising the steps of:

storing, in the storage device, continuous image data obtained by continuously capturing images of at least an entirety of the predetermined area in which the information reading device reads individual identification information of a management target stored in the information storage member;

acquiring the event occurrence time at which an event related to the individual identification information has occurred;

embedding the tag of a playback start time corresponding to the event occurrence time in the continuous image data; and

causing the display device to display a portion of the continuous image data based on the playback start time.

12. A server comprising:

a storage device that stores;

continuous image data obtained by continuously capturing images of at least an entirety of a predetermined area in which an information reading device reads individual identification information of a management target stored in an information storage member; and

an event occurrence time at which an event related to the individual identification information has occurred, wherein

a playback start time corresponding to the event occurrence time is set in the continuous image data by embedding a tag in the continuous image data; and

a control device that provides a portion of the continuous image data starting at the playback start time, in response to a selection of a predetermined option associated with the playback start time.

13. A management device comprising:

a storage device that stores continuous image data of at least an entirety of a predetermined area obtained by continuously capturing images of at least the predetermined area, the predetermined area corresponding to an entire area in which an information reading device reads individual identification information associated with a management target, wherein a tag of a playback start time is embedded in the continuous image data, the playback start time corresponding to an event occurrence time at which an event related to the individual identification information has occurred;

a display device; and

a control device that causes the display device to display a portion of the continuous image data based on the playback start time.