System and method for incorporating video analytics in a monitoring network

• US 20060190960A1
• Filed: 02/14/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vig Acquisitions Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Vig Acquisitions Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Barker, Geoffrey T.
• Application Number:
  US11/353,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/14
• 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: H04N 21/2407 Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques

Abstract

A system and method for incorporating video analytics data in a monitoring network are provided. A processing server obtains video analytics device data from one or more monitoring devices. The processing server processes and stores the video analytics device data according to one or more unique identifiers. Utilizing decision logic, the processing server evaluates the video analytics data to generate one or more predictive assessments. Each predictive assessment can result in the initiation of actions or notification of authorized personnel based upon an event occurrence.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for processing video analytics data comprising:

a video analytics components for detecting and classifying objects located within collected video data from a video monitoring device; and

a data processing component for obtaining the video analytics device data and processing the video analytics data according to at least one processing rule, wherein data processing component utilizes processing rules from the processing rules data store to perform a threat assessment and to generate at least one output or action.

2. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one video device data corresponds to information from an analog or digital video camera.

3. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1 further comprising an output component for generating an output corresponding to the threat assessment.

4. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, wherein the output corresponding to the generation of an alarm signal.

5. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, wherein the output corresponding to an activation of one or more devices.

6. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, wherein the output corresponding to the generation of notification or notification sequences.

7. A system for processing video analytics data comprising:

at least one information collection computing device for obtaining video analytics data from a number of monitoring devices, wherein the video analytics data corresponds to at least one identifiable target;

a central processing server in communication with the at least one information collection computing device and operable to receive the video analytics data corresponding to at least one identifiable target;

a processing rules data store having processing rules corresponding to one or more identifiable targets;

wherein the central processing server obtains a processing rule corresponding to the at least one target, performs a predictive assessment of the video analytics data according to the processing rule, and generates at least one output corresponding to the predictive assessment.

8. In a monitoring device network having at least one video device collection device, a video analytics device and a processing rules data store, wherein the processing rules data store includes rules corresponding to the video analytics data and rules corresponding to the non-video monitoring device data, a method for processing video analytics data comprising:

obtaining video analytics data;

applying at least one processing rule corresponding to the video analytics data from the processing rules data store;

obtaining non-video monitoring device data;

applying at least one processing rule corresponding to the non-video monitoring device data;

processing the video analytics data according to the at least one processing rule to and the non-video monitoring devices data;

generating an output resulting from the processing of both sets of data.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the non-video monitoring device is selected from a group consisting of a motion sensor, thermal sensor, radio frequency identification device, biometric scanning device, bar code reader, smart card reader, or any other data scanning and collection device.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein obtaining non-video monitoring device data includes sequentially obtaining the non-video monitoring device data.