METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS THEREOF
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising:
- determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window; and
generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.
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Abstract
A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.
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23 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising:
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determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window; and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising a map designating a location of at least one monitoring sensor and a source window to view play back of a video, the surveillance method comprising:
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displaying a video being detected by the at least one monitoring sensor; displaying a section of the map representing the location of the at least one monitoring sensor detecting the video. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A computer implemented method of detecting activity within a video on a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the surveillance method comprising:
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acquiring a reference frame from the video; acquiring a comparison frame; comparing the pixels of the reference frame to the pixels of the comparison fame to detect pixels that have changed; showing at least a portion of the video on the graphical user interface; showing the change in pixels on the graphical user interface by coloring the changed pixels with a pre-defined color; gradually altering the pre-defined color to reveal the color of the changed pixels prior to the coloring. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An improved computer implemented graphical user interface for monitoring video surveillance comprising:
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a viewing region for viewing a video; a video navigation region for manipulating the viewing of the video; a thumbnail region which dynamically displays select frames of the video based on a pre-defined criteria each frame having a navigation region for viewing of the video beginning with the displayed frame; wherein selecting individual frames of the video populates the viewing region with said individual frame and plays the video beginning with the selected frame. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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