Method and System of Simultaneously Displaying Multiple Views for Video Surveillance
First Claim
1. A method of transmitting a plurality of views from a video camera comprising:
- (a) capturing a scene in a wide-angle video camera and extracting at least two views of a possible plurality of views;
(b) scaling the plurality of extracted views to independently and respectively specified sizes, where each view is a geometry corrected wide-angle view of a region of interest selectively extracted from one of a plurality of places within the wide-angle view, each independently scaled and each corresponding to an independently controlled virtual camera;
(c) compositing at least a portion of the plurality of views into one or more views to form a composite video which includes multiple different views according to step (b) selectively superimposed, adjacent, or tiled, which can include selecting at least one region of interest from within the wide-angle view;
(d) whereby a compositing of superimposed, adjacent, or tiled views can be accomplished by the camera, or by a base station using a plurality of composited views, wherein the base station supports a surveillance monitor able to display the at least two views simultaneously, superimposed, adjacent, or tiled, and individually scaled as selected, and selectively positioned in the framed view of the monitor.
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Abstract
Methods and systems of transmitting a plurality of views from a video camera are disclosed. The camera captures a plurality of views from the lens and scales the view to a specified size. Each view can correspond to a separate virtual camera view of a region of interest and separately controlled. The camera composites at least a portion of the plurality of views into one or more views within the camera, and then transmits one or more of the views from the video camera to a base station for compositing views from the camera into a single view within the base station. Cameras can be grouped into a network, with network addresses assigned to the camera and any virtual cameras generated therein.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of transmitting a plurality of views from a video camera comprising:
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(a) capturing a scene in a wide-angle video camera and extracting at least two views of a possible plurality of views; (b) scaling the plurality of extracted views to independently and respectively specified sizes, where each view is a geometry corrected wide-angle view of a region of interest selectively extracted from one of a plurality of places within the wide-angle view, each independently scaled and each corresponding to an independently controlled virtual camera; (c) compositing at least a portion of the plurality of views into one or more views to form a composite video which includes multiple different views according to step (b) selectively superimposed, adjacent, or tiled, which can include selecting at least one region of interest from within the wide-angle view; (d) whereby a compositing of superimposed, adjacent, or tiled views can be accomplished by the camera, or by a base station using a plurality of composited views, wherein the base station supports a surveillance monitor able to display the at least two views simultaneously, superimposed, adjacent, or tiled, and individually scaled as selected, and selectively positioned in the framed view of the monitor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A digital video camera system, comprising:
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at least one video camera capturing a geometry distorted view of a scene using a wide-angle lens; digitally selectively extracted multiple region of interest views, each corresponding to a different implemented virtual camera centered on a different portion of the scene, and digitally processing image data of the views to composite into separate frame images, each individually scaled to a specified size, and correct the geometry of the captured scene and extracted images, and transmit the corrected view and images in a digital signal; and selectively displayed multiple corrected extracted images corresponding to multiple virtual cameras, and the scene from multiple video cameras, as selectively superimposed, adjacent, or tiled images, and able to composite selected images and scenes from different video and virtual cameras for display; whereby all the captured scene image data is viewable simultaneously with the extracted views on a surveillance monitoring display. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A video camera system, comprising:
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at least one video camera capturing a geometry distorted view of scene using a wide-angle lens; selectively extracted multiple views centered on multiple points in the scene and electronically processing the view data to composite into separate frame images, each view image data set independently scaled to a specified size from a different implemented virtual pan-tilt-zoom camera; wherein corrected captured scene image data is viewable simultaneously with the corrected extracted views as selectively superimposed, tiled, or adjacent images that can simultaneously include images and scenes from different wide-angle video cameras. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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