AMBIENT PRESENTATION OF SURVEILLANCE DATA

• US 20080170120A1
• Filed: 01/11/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Generac Power Systems Incorporated (Generac Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: SENIOR, ANDREW WILLIAM
• Granted Patent: US 8,704,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A system and method for presentation of surveillance data includes a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors. A second environment includes one or more information presentation devices configured to convey an event or state occurring in the first environment by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the event or state.

Claims

1. A system for presentation of surveillance data comprising:

a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors;

a second environment including one or more information presentation devices configured to convey one of an event and a state occurring in the first environment, by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the event or state.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the ambient sensory condition is visually perceivable by the operator other than by foveated vision.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include cameras.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include one or more wall screens, wherein the wall screen displays a representation of an object being tracked.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the ambient sensory condition includes the representation displayed against the background.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include transducing elements including at least one of sound producing devices and light producing devices such that one or more of intensity, frequency and source location of energy from the transducing elements are temporally altered to convey the ambient sensory condition in accordance with the type and/or level of the event.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the transducing elements cooperate to provide a spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound or light is generated conveys information to the operator for the given events.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the spatial relationship simulates at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

9. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the second environment includes a space for presentation of surveillance video wherein a plurality of video sources are presented of the first environment from a point of view of the second environment as though captured from a location of an operator.

15. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the simulations in the spatial relationship simulate at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

10. A system for presentation of surveillance data, comprising:

one or more sensors to acquire data;

a processing unit to extract information from the data and simulate given events in accordance with the information; and

one or more information presentation devices that present simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship relative to an environment of a monitoring operator such that the spatial relationship conveys the information to the operator for the given events.

11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the information is perceivable by the operator other than by foveated vision.

12. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include a wall screen, wherein the wall screen displays an icon representing an object being tracked and the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the spatial relationship includes the icon displayed against the background.

13. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include a plurality of sound producing devices, wherein the plurality of sound producing devices cooperate to provide the spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound is generated conveys the information to the operator for the given events.

14. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein sound from the plurality of sound producing devices is produced such that an apparent sound origin conveys information derived from the data.

18. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include a plurality of sound producing devices, and the method further comprises cooperating between the plurality of sound producing devices to provide the spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound is generated conveys the information to the operator for the given events including producing sound from the plurality of sound producing devices such that an apparent sound origin conveys information derived from the data.

16. A method for presentation of surveillance data, comprising:

acquiring data from one or more sensors;

extracting information from the data;

simulating given events in accordance with the information; and

using one or more information presentation devices, presenting simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship relative to an environment of a monitoring operator such that the spatial relationship conveys the information to the operator for the given events.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include a wall screen, and the method further comprising representing an object being tracked as an icon on the wall screen displays, and the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the spatial relationship includes the icon displayed against the background.

19. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the simulations in the spatial relationship simulate at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

20. A computer program product for presentation of surveillance data comprising a computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:

acquiring data from one or more sensors;

extracting information from the data;

simulating given events in accordance with the information; and

using one or more information presentation devices, presenting simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship relative to an environment of a monitoring operator such that the spatial relationship conveys the information to the operator for the given events.