SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED MULTIMEDIA

• US 20110069172A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cognyte Technologies Israel Ltd. (Cognyte Software Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Verint Systems Limited (Verint Systems Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hazzani, Gideon
• Granted Patent: US 9,674,489 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Systems and methods for receiving location indications of a communication terminal engaged in a communication session with a communication network, and selecting from a plurality of cameras having different respective fields of view within a geographical region that contains the geographical location, at least one camera whose field of view covers the geographical location. Images are output of the geographical location captured during the session by the at least one selected camera. The images may be correlated with the location indications by a switch in the communication network.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving location indications, which indicate a geographical location of a communication terminal engaged in a communication session with a communication network;

responsively to the location indications, selecting from a plurality of cameras, having different respective fields of view within a geographical region that contains the geographical location, at least one camera whose field of view covers the geographical location; and

outputting images of the geographical location captured during the session by the at least one selected camera.

2. The method according to claim 1, and comprising outputting the geographical location concurrently with the images.

3. The method according to claim 1, and comprising outputting audio content of the communication session concurrently with the images.

4. The method according to claim 1, and comprising selecting a different camera responsively to a change in the geographical location of the communication terminal indicated by the location indications.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein outputting the images comprises correlating the images with the location indications.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein correlation of the images with the location indications is performed by a switch in the communication network.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein outputting the images comprises storing the images and the location indications jointly in a storage device at a first time, and retrieving and displaying the images and the location indications at a second time, later than the first time.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the at least one camera comprises querying a predefined mapping of geographical locations to image locations in the fields of views of the cameras.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the at least one camera comprises controlling the at least one camera so as to modify the field of view of the at least one camera responsively to the location indications.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the at least one camera comprises automatically identifying an utterance of a Point Of Interest (POI) in audio content of the communication session, and estimating the geographical location based on the identified POI.

11. A system, comprising:

a first interface, which is configured to receive location indications that indicate a geographical location of a communication terminal engaged in a communication session with a communication network;

a second interface, which is configured to interact with a surveillance subsystem comprising a plurality of cameras having different respective fields of view within a geographical region that contains the geographical location; and

a processor, which is configured to cause the surveillance subsystem to select from the plurality of the cameras, responsively to the location indications, at least one camera whose field of view covers the geographical location, and to receive and output images of the geographical location captured during the session by the at least one selected camera.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to output the geographical location concurrently with the images.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to receive audio content of the communication session, and to output the audio content concurrently with the images.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to cause the surveillance subsystem to select a different camera responsively to a change in the geographical location of the communication terminal indicated by the location indications.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to correlate the images with the location indications.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the processor is comprised in a switch in the communication network.

17. The system according to claim 11, and comprising a storage device, wherein the processor is configured to store the images and the location indications jointly in the storage device at a first time, so as to enable retrieval and display of the images and the location indications at a second time, later than the first time. indications from the communication network.

18. A system, comprising:

a surveillance subsystem comprising a plurality of cameras having different respective fields of view; and

a correlation subsystem, which is configured to receive location indications that indicate a geographical location of a communication terminal engaged in a communication session with a communication network, to cause the surveillance subsystem to select from the plurality of the cameras, responsively to the location indications, at least one camera whose field of view covers the geographical location, to receive from the surveillance subsystem images of the geographical location captured during the session by the at least one selected camera, and to output the captured images.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the surveillance subsystem is configured to select the at least one camera by querying a predefined mapping of geographical locations to image locations in the fields of views of the cameras.

20. The system according to claim 20, wherein the surveillance subsystem is configured to control the at least one camera so as to modify the field of view of the at least one camera responsively to the location indications.