Monitoring apparatus and monitoring method

• US 20080136628A1
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,796,031 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19693 using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus using video data taken and outputted by a plurality of security imaging apparatuses for monitoring is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display part configured to display the video data; an alarm generating part configured to analyze the video data and to generate an alarm in the case in which irregularities are detected in an imaging area on the security imaging apparatus; and a control part configured to conduct control in which the control part switches a display of a screen on the display part from a display of a screen in general monitoring to a display of a screen to display a taken image of the imaging area in which the irregularities are detected when the alarm generated in the alarm generating part is detected and returns the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring at a predetermined timing from the detection of the alarm.

Claims

1. A monitoring apparatus which uses video data taken and outputted by a plurality of security imaging apparatuses for monitoring, the monitoring apparatus comprising:

a display part configured to display the video data;

an alarm generating part configured to analyze the video data and to generate an alarm in the case in which occurrence of irregularities is detected in an imaging area on the security imaging apparatus; and

a control part configured to conduct control in which the control part switches a display of a screen on the display part from a display of a screen in general monitoring to a display of a screen to display a taken image of the imaging area in which the occurrence of the irregularities is detected in the case in which the alarm generated in the alarm generating part is detected and returns the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring at a predetermined timing from the detection of the alarm.

2. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined timing is a timing at which the generation of an alarm by the alarm generating part is finished.

3. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein in the case in which a display of a screen on the display part is manually switched, the control part does not conduct control of returning the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring, and sets the display of the screen manually switched to the display of the screen in general monitoring.

4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein in the case in which an alarm is generated in the alarm generating part during a period which a taken image of the imaging area is displayed on the display part in which the irregularities are generated, the control part changes the predetermined timing to a timing at which a latest alarm generated in the alarm generating part is finished.

5. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a timer configured to measure time, wherein the predetermined timing is a timing at which a time measured by the timer reaches a preset time.

6. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 5, wherein in the case in which a display of a screen on the display part is manually switched, the control part does not conduct control of returning the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring, and sets the display of the screen manually switched to the display of the screen in general monitoring.

7. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 5, wherein in the case in which an alarm is generated in the alarm generating part during a period which the timer is measuring time, the timer is reset.

8. A monitoring method of using video data taken and outputted by a plurality of security imaging apparatuses for monitoring, the method comprising the steps of:

displaying the video data;

analyzing the video data and generating an alarm in the case in which occurrence of irregularities is detected in an imaging area on the security imaging apparatus; and

switching a display of a screen on which the video data is displayed from a display of a screen in general monitoring to a display of a screen to display a taken image of the imaging area in which the occurrence of the irregularities is detected when the alarm is detected and returning the display to the display of the screen in general monitoring at a predetermined timing from the detection of the alarm.