VIDEO SURVEILLANCE APPARATUS USING DUAL CAMERA AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120242809A1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Published: 09/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UDP Technology Limited
• Original Assignee: UDP Technology Limited
• Inventors: WHITE, Ben, Robinson, Neil, Choo, Yeon Hak
• Application Number:
  US13/423,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20120242809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/51
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19643 wherein the cameras play different roles, e.g. different resolution, different camera type, master-slave camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0175 by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/11 for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths

Abstract

The present invention relates to a video surveillance apparatus and method using a dual camera, which is capable of applying any camera videos with a result of video analysis made based on one selected from videos provided from a special purpose camera, such as a thermal image camera, and a visible light camera. Since the video surveillance apparatus and method is capable of arranging a visible light camera and a special-purpose camera in the same surveillance area, securing FOV differences between these cameras as pixel matching parameters between images by the medium of the same space corresponding to an image of each camera, performing selective video analysis for one of these parameters, and checking a result of the analysis in any camera images through the matching information in the same way, it is possible to guarantee autonomy of video switching, continuity of object tracking in video switching, and high reliability.

Claims

1. A video surveillance apparatus using a dual camera, comprising:

a dual camera unit including a visible light camera and a special-purpose camera which are adjacent to each other, the special-purpose camera having a property different from a property of the visible light camera;

a calibration unit which includes surveillance space calibration information for each camera of the dual camera unit;

a video analysis unit which analyzes a video of one selected from videos of the cameras of the dual cameras by referring to the calibration information;

a video matching unit which mutually matches videos of the two cameras of the dual camera unit by the medium of the surveillance space by using the calibration information for each camera of the calibration unit; and

a representation unit which selects a video of one to be analyzed by the video analysis unit, of the cameras of the dual camera unit according to an external control signal or a preset criterion, selects a video of a camera to be provided to the outside, and displays a result of the analysis of the video analysis unit on a corresponding position of the outside provision video matched through the video matching unit.

2. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calibration unit calculates the calibration information through adjustment of arrangement and size of three-dimensional grids and standard solid objects displayed on the 3D grids based on a relationship between a surveillance space and a camera image for each of the cameras of the dual camera unit.

3. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the video matching unit uses a rotation matrix and an inter-position translation for matching between the videos of the cameras of the dual camera unit having the same space information through the calibration unit.

4. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calibration unit uses measurement information in installation of the dual camera unit to calculate a scaling matrix between the videos of the cameras and an inter-position translation.

5. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the video matching unit uses the scaling matrix and the inter-position translation of the calibration unit to calculate pixel positions of one camera image corresponding to pixel positions of the other camera image according to a result of the analysis of the video analysis unit.

6. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the visible light camera of the dual camera unit has a higher resolution than the special-purpose camera.

7. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a display selection area is adjusted according to an external control signal through the representation unit.

8. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the video analysis unit determines a display selection area of the visible light camera such that all target objects are displayed depending on contents of the video analysis.

9. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the representation unit displays information of video analysis of a camera, which is analyzed by the video analysis unit, of the cameras of the dual camera unit according to an external control signal, on a video of a camera which is not analyzed by the video analysis unit, or displays the video analysis information on the video of the camera analyzed by the video analysis unit.

10. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the representation unit selects one of the videos of the dual camera unit, overlaps videos of a plurality of cameras, or combines videos of these cameras.

11. The video surveillance apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a storage unit which stores at least one of the videos of the cameras of the dual camera unit and the video of the representation unit.

12. A video surveillance apparatus using a dual camera, which performs object tracking through a dual camera unit including a visible light camera and a special-purpose camera which are adjacent to each other, the special-purpose camera having a property different from a property of the visible light camera, both cameras being calibrated for a surveillance space, comprising:

a video analysis unit which performs object tracking for a video of the special-purpose camera;

a video matching unit which mutually matches videos of the two cameras by the medium of the surveillance space by using calibration information for each of the cameras; and

a representation unit which displays a result of the video analysis by the video analysis unit on the video of the special-purpose camera according to an external control signal, or displays the result of the video analysis on a matching position in the video of the visible light camera through the video matching unit.

13. A video surveillance method using a dual camera including a visible light camera and a special-purpose camera which are adjacent to each other, the special-purpose camera having a property different from a property of the visible light camera, comprising the steps of;

performing calibration for a surveillance space for each camera of the dual camera unit;

acquiring matching information by mutually matching videos of the two cameras of the dual camera unit by the medium of the surveillance space by referring to a result of the calibration;

performing video analysis for one of the cameras and calculating a result of the video analysis; and

displaying the calculated result on a video subjected to the video analysis according to an external control signal, or displaying the calculated result on a video of a camera not subjected to the video analysis according to matching information between the videos of the cameras.

14. The video surveillance method according to claim 13, wherein the representation unit selects one of the videos of the video analysis result is displayed in the step of displaying is a video of one of the cameras, an overlap video of the cameras, or a combination of the videos of the cameras.