Method for detecting events at a secured location

• US 20090122144A1
• Filed: 01/26/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Barry Arthur Hall, Greig Stovall Latham, Joel Pat Latham, Matt Kyle, Michael A. Ramsey, Steven Wayne Belden
• Original Assignee: Barry Arthur Hall, Greig Stovall Latham, Joel Pat Latham, Matt Kyle, Michael A. Ramsey, Steven Wayne Belden
• Inventors: Ramsey, Michael A., Hall, Barry Arthur, Latham, Greig Stovall, Latham, Joel Pat, Kyle, Matt, Belden, Steven Wayne
• Application Number:
  US12/011,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20090122144A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/155
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19632 Camera support structures, e.g. attachment means, poles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/02 with smoke, gas, or coloured or odorous powder or liquid

Abstract

A method for detecting events/activities at a secured location in which the security method may include an operator and/or determination application for supervising the location, and a transmission network for transceiving data indicative of determined activities of the secured location, wherein the determination application and the operator can initiate a deter device in response to adverse activities. The determination application of the security method may include an intelligence system for distinguishing between normal and adverse conditions. The method may also include an application for the transfer of activity data to a storage device in which operator(s) may access the stored data.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a secured location, the method comprising:

capturing events detected at the secured location by sensory devices;

receiving event data captured by the sensory devices;

identifying a first condition of the secured location in response to receiving events data captured by the sensory devices;

identifying a second condition of the secured location in response to receiving further event data capture by the sensory devices;

comparing the first and second conditions to determine if an abnormal condition exist; and

conditionally initiating a deter event local to the secured location responsive to a determined abnormal condition at the secured location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the initiating a deter event further including transceiving over a wireless communication system to an operator for supervising the secured location, the operator can determine if a deter event is to be initiated based on received conditions, wherein the deter event includes at least one of group comprising a two-way audio device, a strobe light, a siren, and a spray emitter.

3. The method of claim 1 further including transceiving determined conditions over a wireless communication system to an operator for supervising the secured location, the operator is a human receiving the determined conditions via a device configured to communicate on the wireless communication system, wherein the human operator determines whether a two-way audio communication at the secured location should be initiated based on the determined conditions.

4. The method of claim 1 further including transceiving determined conditions over a wireless communication system to an operator for supervising the secured location, wherein the operator is a computerized device configured to determine whether a deter device should be initiated based on received determined conditions, the determining condition step including recognizing conditions of objects within the secured location, wherein object recognition can determine the first condition of an object and the second condition of an object via a visual sensory device local to the secured location.

5. The method of claim 1 further including notifying other operators which are remote to the secured location via the wireless communication system responsive to a determined abnormal condition.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the other remote operators are humans assigned to monitor events detected in the secured location.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the human operators can initiate deter events local to the secured location.

8. The method of claim 1 further including transferring data indicative of the captured events detected at the secured location by sensory devices to a storage device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the storage device is local to the secured location.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the storage device is remote to the secured location.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

capturing events detected at another secured location by sensory devices;

receiving event data captured by the sensory devices of the another secured location;

identifying a first condition of the another secured location in response to receiving events data captured by the sensory devices;

identifying a second condition of the another secured location in response to receiving further event data capture by the sensory devices;

comparing the first and second conditions to determine if an abnormal condition exist at the another secured location; and

transmitting the determined conditions to a central operator for initiating a deter event at the respective secured locations responsive to a determined adverse condition.

12. The security system of claim 11 further including transmitting the event data captured by the respective sensory devices to a storage device.

13. The security system of claim 12, wherein the central operator can access the storage device to review the event data.

14. A method of monitoring events at a defined outdoor location, the outdoor location including a security event detection system which includes a video surveillance device configured to provide images of surrounding objects and further configurable to detect security events sensed from other sensing devices, the outdoor location also including deter devices, the deter devices including at least one of a plurality of devices selected from a group comprising a two-way audio device, a strobe light, a siren, and a spray emitter, and wherein the two-way audio device enables two-way conversation between an operator and anyone present in the outdoor location, the method comprising:

capturing events detected at the secured location by sensory devices;

identifying a first condition of the secured location in response to the captured detected events;

identifying a second condition of the secured location in response to receiving further captured events detected at the secured location;

comparing the first and second conditions to determine if an abnormal condition exist; and

notifying an operator for supervising the secured location responsive to a determined abnormal condition.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the operator can initiate a deter event local to the secured location responsive to a determined abnormal condition.

16. The method of claim 14 further including transferring data indicative of the captured events detected at the secured location by sensory devices to a storage device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the storage device can be local to the outdoor location or remote to the outdoor location.

18. The method of claim 14 further including receiving object images and sensed security event data at a programmable determination device which can determine a first condition and a second condition of objects local to the outdoor location, the programmable determination device further determining if the abnormal condition exist and responsive to initiating a deter measure.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the programmable determination device is capable of object condition recognition such that objects within the monitored outdoor area are first recorded in a first condition and a security event is initiated if any one of the objects are determined to be in a condition different from the first condition, wherein the conditions are provided via a further scan provided from the video surveillance device.

20. A machine-readable medium in which instructions thereon cause a computing device to perform a method of detecting and deterring defined activities at a secured location, the method comprising:

capturing events detected at the secured location by sensory devices;

receiving event data captured by the sensory devices;

identifying a first condition of the secured location in response to receiving events data captured by the sensory devices;

identifying a second condition of the secured location in response to receiving further event data capture by the sensory devices;

comparing the first and second conditions to determine if an abnormal condition exist; and

conditionally initiating a deter event local to the secured location responsive to a determined abnormal condition at the secured location.