Video surveillance system

• US 20060274148A1
• Filed: 06/03/2005
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pelco (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Pelco (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Millar, Greg Max, Still, Ray
• Granted Patent: US 7,636,104 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

A method and system of controlling a video surveillance system comprising providing a distributed video surveillance system having a plurality of devices, building a script having a parameter that is filled in when an event occurs, storing the script, detecting the occurrence of an event, loading data related to a first device from the plurality of devices in a first parameter to generate a first script, the first device being associated with the detection of the occurrence of an event, and executing the first script.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a video surveillance system comprising the steps of:

providing a distributed video surveillance system having a plurality of devices;

building a script having a parameter that is filled in when an event occurs;

storing the script;

detecting the occurrence of an event;

loading data related to a first device from the plurality of devices in a first parameter to generate a first script, said first device being associated with the detection of the occurrence of an event; and

executing the first script.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein said step of loading of data related to a first device comprises selecting a device spatially related to the detection of the occurrence of an event.

3. A method as recited in claim 2 further comprising the step of loading information into the video surveillance system pertaining to the physical location of the plurality of devices in the video surveillance system.

4. A method as recited in claim 3 wherein said step of loading data related to a first device comprises selecting a camera that can view an area physically related to the detected event.

5. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising the steps of detecting the state of the first device to determine if the first device is on-line and loading data related to a second device if the first device is not on-line.

6. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein said step of executing the first script comprises running the first script at a location remote from the first device.

7. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of sending the first script to the first device and wherein said step of executing the first script comprises having the first device execute the first script.

8. A method as recited in claim 7 wherein a second parameter in the first script is dependent on the first device and is not filled in before sending the first script to the first device and further comprising the step of having the first device fill in the second parameter to adapt the first script.

9. A video surveillance system comprising:

a network;

a plurality of video surveillance cameras connected to said network;

an event detector connected to said network;

a script manager connected to said network, said script manager having a memory and a template script having a parameter pertaining to a video surveillance camera from said plurality of video surveillance cameras which is not filled in stored in said memory, said script manager being adapted to fill in said parameter with data from a video surveillance camera from said plurality of video surveillance cameras that is associated with an event that is detected by said event detector to create a completed script and to cause the completed script to be executed.

10. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 9 wherein said script manager is adapted to select a video surveillance camera that is spatially related to said event detector.

11. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 10 wherein said script manager has the physical locations of said plurality of video surveillance cameras and said event detector stored in said memory.

12. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 10 wherein said script manager determines whether a video surveillance camera is on-line before its data is located in said template script and selects another video surveillance camera if the selected video surveillance camera is not on-line.

13. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 9 wherein said script manager executes said completed script and controls the video surveillance camera whose data was filled into the parameter of said template script.

14. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 9 wherein said script manager sends said completed script to the video surveillance camera whose data was filled into the parameter of said template script and said video surveillance camera whose data was filled into the parameter of said template script executes said completed script

15. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 14 wherein template script has a second parameter that is not filled in and said camera whose data was filled into the parameter of said template script fills in the second parameter before executing said completed script.

16. A video surveillance system as recited in claim 15 further comprising a video recorder connected to said network and said camera whose data was filled into the parameter of said template script fills in the second parameter with data pertaining to said video recorder.