MONITORING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE MONITORING APPARATUS

• US 20090244281A1
• Filed: 03/13/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Hiromasa, Kiichi
• Application Number:
  US12/404,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20090244281A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1961 Movement detection not involving frame subtraction, e.g. motion detection on the basis of luminance changes in the image
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19613 Recognition of a predetermined image pattern or behaviour pattern indicating theft or intrusion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus causes a display unit to display an image of a monitor target at entering a room together with an image of the monitor target at exiting the room transmitted from an image capturing apparatus corresponding to a gate terminal apparatus.

Claims

1. A monitoring apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive identification information of a monitor target exiting a room through a gate from a gate terminal apparatus;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of the monitor target captured at entry from a storage unit based on the identification information of the monitor target received by the reception unit; and

a processing unit configured to cause a display unit to display the image of the monitor target at entry acquired by the acquisition unit together with an image of the monitor target at exit transmitted from an image capturing apparatus corresponding to the gate terminal apparatus.

2. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit causes the display unit to display gate positions through which the monitor target has passed at entry and at exit in a case where states of the monitor target at entry and at exit differ from each other.

3. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the states of the monitor target at entry and at exit include weight of the monitor target or information indicating whether an object held by the monitor target exists.

4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where an image capturing apparatus is selected, the processing unit identifies a monitor target image-captured by the selected image capturing apparatus, reads an image of the identified monitor target at entry from the storage unit, and causes the display unit to display the read image.

5. A monitoring apparatus comprising:

a processing unit configured to read an image of a monitor target obtained by an image capturing apparatus from a storage unit and to cause a display unit to reproduce and display the image; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether time of image-capturing of the image being reproduced and displayed reaches exit time of the monitor target,

wherein the processing unit causes the display unit to display an image of the monitor target at entry based on information about an entry/exit record in a case where the time of image-capturing of the image being reproduced and displayed reaches the exit time of the monitor target.

6. A display processing method for a monitoring apparatus, the display processing method comprising:

receiving identification information of a monitor target exiting a room through a gate from a gate terminal apparatus;

acquiring an image of the monitor target at entry from a storage unit based on the identification information; and

causing a display unit to display the image of the monitor target at entry together with an image of the monitor target at exit transmitted from an image capturing apparatus corresponding to the gate terminal apparatus.

7. The display processing method according to claim 6, further comprising causing the display unit to display gate positions through which the monitor target has passed at entry and at exit in a case where states of the monitor target at entry and at exit differ from each other.

8. The display processing method according to claim 7, wherein the states of the monitor target at entry and at exit includes weight of the monitor target or information indicating whether an object held by the monitor target exists.

9. The display processing method according to claim 6, further comprising, in a case where an image capturing apparatus is selected, identifying a monitor target image-captured by the selected image capturing apparatus, reading an image of the identified monitor target at entry from the storage unit, and causing the display unit to display the read image.

10. A display processing method for a monitoring apparatus, the display processing method comprising:

reading an image of a monitor target obtained by an image capturing apparatus from a storage unit and causing a display unit to reproduce and display the image; and

causing the display unit to display an image of the monitor target at entry based on information about an entry/exit record in a case where time of image-capturing of the image being reproduced and displayed reaches exit time of the monitor target.

11. A computer-readable storage medium containing computer-executable instructions for controlling a monitoring apparatus, the medium comprising:

computer-executable instructions that receive identification information of a monitor target exiting a room through a gate from a gate terminal apparatus;

computer-executable instructions that acquire an image of the monitor target captured at entry from a storage unit based on the received identification information of the monitor target; and

computer-executable instructions that cause a display unit to display the acquired image of the monitor target at entry together with an image of the monitor target at exit transmitted from an image capturing apparatus corresponding to the gate terminal apparatus.

12. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, further comprising computer-executable instructions that cause the display unit to display gate positions through which the monitor target has passed at entry and at exit in a case where states of the monitor target at entry and at exit differ from each other.

13. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, in a case where an image capturing apparatus is selected, identify a monitor target image-captured by the selected image capturing apparatus, read an image of the identified monitor target at entry from the storage unit, and cause the display unit to display the read image.

14. A computer-readable storage medium containing computer-executable instructions for controlling a monitoring apparatus, the medium comprising:

computer-executable instructions that read an image of a monitor target obtained by an image capturing apparatus from a storage unit and causing a display unit to reproduce and display the image; and

computer-executable instructions that cause the display unit to display an image of the monitor target at entry based on information about an entry/exit record in a case where time of image-capturing of the image being reproduced and displayed reaches exit time of the monitor target.