Surveillance system with suspicious behavior detection
First Claim
1. A surveillance and security system for automatic detection and warning of detected events, said system comprising:
- means for observing behavior in a predetermined area under surveillance;
means for processing an output of observed behavior from said means for observing, said means for processing including a pattern recognition means for recognizing whether said observed behavior is associated with predefined suspicious behaviors; and
means for notifying that said pattern recognition means recognizes at least one behavioral pattern associated with said set of predefined suspicious behaviors has been observed by said means for observing.
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Abstract
A surveillance and security system for automatic detection and warning of detected events includes a unit for observing behavior in a predetermined area under surveillance, a unit for processing an output of observed behavior from the unit for observing, and a includes a pattern recognition module for recognizing whether the observed behavior is associated with predefined suspicious behaviors. Upon recognition that the observed behavior is suspicious, security is notified about the potential need for increased surveillance, or automatically increased surveillance can be provided. The pattern recognition module may include infrared heat profiles of persons, images of actually people, sequences of people manipulating shopping bags, tearing sounds of tearing different types of packaging such as paper and plastic for retail products. The observation of motion, which is related to behavior, is compared against a database of predefined acts. In addition to motion, images, for example, of groups of teenagers could be used to identify potentially higher security risks in the area under surveillance. A method of detecting suspicious behavior provides a process that may use hardware other than described in the system.
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1. A surveillance and security system for automatic detection and warning of detected events, said system comprising:
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means for observing behavior in a predetermined area under surveillance;
means for processing an output of observed behavior from said means for observing, said means for processing including a pattern recognition means for recognizing whether said observed behavior is associated with predefined suspicious behaviors; and
means for notifying that said pattern recognition means recognizes at least one behavioral pattern associated with said set of predefined suspicious behaviors has been observed by said means for observing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for surveillance and detection of suspicious behavior, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) observing behavior of a person in a predetermined area under surveillance;
(b) identifying whether the behavior observed in step (a) is associated with at least one of a plurality of predetermined suspicious behaviors by comparing the behavior observed with a plurality of predetermined behavioral patterns in a pattern recognition module;
(c) notifying security when the behavior observed has been identified as being associated with at least one of the plurality of predetermined behavioral patterns in the recognition module. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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