Smart optical sensor (SOS) hardware and software platform
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1. An improved optical sensor comprising:
- at least one optical camera for collecting intelligence data, a control station associated with at least one of said cameras for detecting activities to be monitored and for selectively activating at least one of said cameras, and a computerized data processing apparatus for substantially reducing data transmission bandwidth requirements by preprocessing at least some of said intelligence data at said camera site before transmission from said surveillance camera to one or more remote control stations.
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An improved optical sensor comprising at least one optical camera for collecting intelligence data, a control station associated with at least one of said cameras for detecting activities to be monitored and for selectively activating at least one of said cameras, and a computerized data processing apparatus for substantially reducing data transmission bandwidth requirements by preprocessing at least some of said intelligence data at said camera site before transmission from said surveillance camera to one or more remote control stations.
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1. An improved optical sensor comprising:
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at least one optical camera for collecting intelligence data, a control station associated with at least one of said cameras for detecting activities to be monitored and for selectively activating at least one of said cameras, and a computerized data processing apparatus for substantially reducing data transmission bandwidth requirements by preprocessing at least some of said intelligence data at said camera site before transmission from said surveillance camera to one or more remote control stations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A video surveillance system comprising:
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an array of closed-circuit (CCTV) cameras, an array of computerized image processors individually associated with one of said cameras in a distributed computing architecture, and a selectable array of algorithms for enabling any single said image processors to pre-process surveillance data from its associated camera to significantly reduce data transmission bandwidth requirements to facilitate improved video data transmission from said individual cameras to selectable ones of said control stations. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A process for improving the efficiency of the collection of surveillance data comprising the steps of:
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selectively positioning a plurality of smart surveillance platforms to generate intelligence data to be gathered, positioning one or more control stations in operative proximity to said surveillance platforms to gather said intelligence data, and combining computational smart video processing algorithms with an individual one of said surveillance cameras mounted on each of said platforms whereby the transmission bandwidth requirements may be significantly reduced before intelligence data is transmitted from said surveillance platforms to said control stations. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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