Method and system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus

• US 20100165109A1
• Filed: 10/16/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Original Assignee: Altek Corporation
• Inventors: Lang, I-Lung
• Application Number:
  US12/588,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20100165109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30232 Surveillance
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

A method and a system for automatic monitoring made by a portable image-capturing apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes an image-capturing module, an image variation detecting module, and an automatic video recording module. The method preferably uses the image variation detecting module to determine whether or not a variation event occurs in a predetermined region. And the automatic video recording module records a video in the predetermined region according to the determination result. If the determination result is positive, the automatic video recording module then starts video recording. Next, if the variation event disappears for a period of time, the automatic video recording module stops recording the video.

Claims

1. A method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus, and the method is applicable to a portable image capturing apparatus which includes an image capturing module, the method comprises:

capturing a plurality of images in a predetermined region continuously with the image capturing module;

determining whether a variation event occurs in the predetermined region based on the images'"'"' observation or not; and

recording a monitoring video in the predetermined region if the variation event occurs.

2. The method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 1, if the predetermined region is a static region, the step of determining the variation event is to determine whether an object moves in the predetermined region.

3. The method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the variation event comprises a step of determining whether the variation event is a person allowed to enter the predetermined region or not.

4. The method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining whether or not the variation event occurs in the predetermined region is a continuous work;

and if the variation event disappears for a period of time, the portable image capturing apparatus stops recording the monitoring video, and stores the monitoring video.

5. The method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprises a step of sending a warning signal to an electronic device when the method starts to record the video.

6. The method for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the warning signal is sent by wired transmission or wireless transmission.

7. A system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus, and the portable image capturing apparatus includes at least one image capturing module for monitoring a predetermined region continuously, the automatic monitoring system comprises:

an image variation detecting module, for detecting a variation event which occurs in the predetermined region; and

an automatic video recording module, for recording a monitoring video in the predetermined region automatically when the image variation detecting module detects the variation event occurring in the predetermined region.

8. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image variation detecting module includes a motion detecting module, for detecting an event of an object moves in the predetermined region.

9. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image variation detecting module includes a character recognizing module, which is coupled with a characteristic database in the portable image capturing apparatus, for recognizing a person moving in the predetermined region;

when the character recognizing module detects that the person does not exist in the characteristic database, the automatic video recording module is triggered to record the monitoring video.

10. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image variation detecting module continuously detects the variation event in the predetermined region;

and if the variation event disappears for a period of time, the automatic video recording module then stops recording the monitoring video in the predetermined region and stores the monitoring video.

11. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprises a warning module, which is coupled with the automatic video recording module and connects to an external network, for sending a warning signal to an electronic device when the automatic video recording module starts to record the monitoring video.

12. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the external network is a wired network or a wireless network.

13. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the electronic device is a mobile phone, a computer, or a personal digital assistant.

14. The system for automatic monitoring of portable image capturing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image capturing module comprises an optical image capturing component and an image sensor.