INTELLIGENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20070296813A1
• Filed: 12/22/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: HSIEH, MING-CHIH
• Application Number:
  US11/615,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20070296813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

An intelligent monitor system is provided. The system includes a driver, an imaging device, a central processing unit, and a motion detection unit. The motion detection unit is used for setting a motion monitoring section in an image of a monitored area captured by the imaging device. If suspicious activity occurs in the motion monitoring section, the central processing unit controls the driver to drive the imaging device, the imaging device moves the motion monitoring section to the image center to be amplified. A related method is also provided.

Claims

1. An intelligent monitoring system comprising a driver, an imaging device, a central processing unit, and a motion detection unit, the motion detection unit being for setting a motion monitoring section in an image of a monitored area captured by the imaging device, the central processing unit controlling the driver to drive the imaging device to move the motion monitoring section to the image center and amplify the motion monitoring section, when any suspicious activity occurs in the motion monitoring section.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion detection unit comprises:

a configuration module for setting the motion monitoring section in the image captured by the imaging device, setting a two-dimensional grid for the image, and setting an alert level for image deviation in the motion monitoring section; and

a computing module for computing image deviation of the motion monitoring section, computing coordinate values of the image center and the motion monitoring section center, and computing a distance between the image center and the motion monitoring section center.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the motion detection unit further comprises a detecting module for detecting whether the suspicious activity occurs in the motion monitoring section by determining whether the image deviation in the motion monitoring section exceeds the alert level.

4. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the motion detection unit further comprises a transmitting module for transmitting the image captured by the imaging device to a remote control center via a network.

5. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the driver is for driving the imaging device to move the motion monitoring section according to the computed distance.

6. An intelligent monitoring method, comprising the steps of

capturing an image of a monitored area by an imaging device;

setting a motion monitoring section in the image and an alert level for image deviation in the motion monitoring section;

setting a two-dimensional grid for the image and dividing the image equally corresponding to the x-axis, y-axis of the two-dimensional grid;

computing coordinate values of the image center and the motion monitoring section center in the two-dimensional grid;

computing a distance between the image center and the motion monitoring section center;

detecting whether image deviation of the motion monitoring section exceeds the alert level;

moving the motion monitoring section to the center of the image, if the image deviation in the motion monitoring section exceeds the alert level; and

amplifying the motion monitoring section.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising the step of

transmitting the image captured by the imaging device to a remote control center through a network.