Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and filter setting method

• US 20080018737A1
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Masafumi, Tsukuda, Kazuma, Ohara, Isao, Yanai, Shin
• Granted Patent: US 8,797,403 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7335 Graphical querying, e.g. query-by-region, query-by-sketch, query-by-trajectory, GUIs for designating a person/face/object as a query predicate end-user interface involving hot spots associated with the video H04N21/4725; end-user interface for selecting a Region of Interest H04N21/4728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7837 using objects detected or recognised in the video content
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19608 Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1968 Interfaces for setting up or customising the system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an image data acquisition section, a metadata acquisition section, a display section, a filter setting section, and a combination setting section. The image data acquisition section is configured to acquire image data from a camera. The metadata acquisition section is configured to acquire, from the camera, metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance. The display section is configured to display a setting screen usable for setting a plurality of filters. The filter setting section is configured to perform filter setting using the information of the metadata. The combination setting section is configured to set a combination of the plurality of filters. The filter setting section and the combination setting section are provided on the same setting screen.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

an image data acquisition section configured to acquire image data from a camera;

a metadata acquisition section configured to acquire, from the camera, metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance;

a display section configured to display a setting screen usable for setting a plurality of filters;

a filter setting section configured to perform filter setting using the information of the metadata; and

a combination setting section configured to set a combination of the plurality of filters,

wherein said filter setting section and said combination setting section are provided on the same setting screen.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said combination setting section is a switching section configured to switch a type of the combination of the plurality of filters, the switching section being provided in the setting screen displayed on said display section.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein options of the type of the combination of the plurality of filters are:

a parallel mode configured to output an alarm each time a condition of any of the plurality of filters is satisfied by the metadata acquired from the camera; and

a sequential mode configured to output one alarm when the conditions of the plurality of filters are satisfied by the metadata acquired from the camera in a set order.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said filter setting section is an enable/disable setting section configured to specify whether or not each of the plurality of filters is used, the enable/disable setting section being provided in the setting screen displayed on said display section.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said filter setting section performs the filter setting by drawing a figure on a screen provided at a part of the setting screen and showing the image data acquired from the camera.

6. An image processing system, comprising:

a camera configured to generate image data of an image and metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance; and

an image processing apparatus including

an image data acquisition section configured to acquire the image data from said camera,

a metadata acquisition section configured to acquire the metadata from said camera,

a display section configured to display a setting screen usable for setting a plurality of filters,

a filter setting section configured to perform filter setting using the information of the metadata, and

a combination setting section configured to set a combination of the plurality of filters,

wherein the filter setting section and the combination setting section are provided on the same setting screen.

7. A filter setting method, comprising the steps of:

acquiring image data from a camera;

acquiring, from the camera, metadata representing information concerning an object of surveillance;

displaying on a display section a setting screen having a function of setting a plurality of filters and a function of setting a combination of the plurality of filters;

performing, with the setting screen, filter setting using the information of the metadata; and

setting the combination of the plurality of filters with the setting screen.