Panoramic photographing monitoring and tracking system and method

• US 20050231589A1
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yu-Lin Chiang
• Original Assignee: Yu-Lin Chiang
• Inventors: Chiang, Yu-Lin
• Application Number:
  US11/085,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20050231589A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A panoramic photographing monitoring and tracking system and method is disclosed. The system comprises a panoramic camera used to acquire a 360-degree spatial image and output an expanded planar image of the acquired spatial image, a speed dome camera used to track and photograph an object image, a coordinate interpreting module coupled to the panoramic camera and the speed dome camera to interpret coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image, an initialization collation module used to collate the coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image and a display unit having an expanded planar image area and an object image area used to display the object image and a relative position between the object image and the planar expanded image corresponding thereto.

Claims

1. A panoramic photographing monitoring and tracking system, comprising:

a panoramic camera used to acquiring a 360-degree spatial image and output an expanded planar of the spatial image;

a speed dome camera configured to track and photograph an object image;

a coordinate interpreting module coupled to the panoramic camera and the speed dome camera and interpreting coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image, respectively;

an initialization collation module collating the coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image, respectively; and

a display module comprising an expanded planar image block and an object image block and displaying a relative position between the object image and the expanded planar image corresponding thereto.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an image capture card used to capture and output the spatial image and the object image.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the expanded planar image is obtained through a computation by an image dimension conversion program library in which a tree-dimensional image is conversed into a two-dimensional image.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the initialization collation unit sets the relative position by means of a fine-tune unit.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the object image is enclosed by a frame based on a moving object.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the object image is set with a priority for facilitated monitoring and tracking.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a task setting unit through which a user sets a specific space and time monitoring.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising an alarm unit through which a force signal and an exception signals are inputted and an alarm signal is outputted.

9. A panoramic photographing monitoring and tracking method, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a 360-degree spatial image and outputting an expanded planar image of the spatial image;

tracking and photographing an object image;

interpreting coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image;

collating the coordinates of the expanded planar image and the object image; and

outputting at all time a monitoring and tracking signal as to a relative position between the object image and the expanded planar image corresponding thereto.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the expanded planar image is obtained through a computation by an image dimension conversion program library in which a tree-dimensional image is conversed into a two-dimensional image.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the object image is enclosed by a frame based on a moving object.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the object image is set with a priority for facilitated monitoring and tracking.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising a step of setting a specific space and time for object monitoring.

14. The system of claim 9, further comprising an alarm unit through which a force signal and an exception signals are inputted and an alarm signal is outputted.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the alarm signal is outputted to an external loudspeaker.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the monitoring and tracking signal is outputted to a display device or a storage medium for recordation.