SURVEILLANCE METHOD UTILIZING VIDEO COMPRESSION FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION
First Claim
1. A wireless digital surveillance method for monitoring remote locations, the surveillance method comprising:
- capturing digital surveillance video with a camera assembly, the camera assembly outputting a video output,collecting the video output of the camera assembly and compressing the video output with a video processor into a low-bandwidth video signal suitable for transmission over low bandwidth wireless networks;
wirelessly communicating the low-bandwidth video signal from the video processor over a low bandwidth wireless network and ultimately to a server; and
providing access to the server by a user so the user can view the video signal.
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Abstract
A digital surveillance method in which the output signal of a camera is highly compressed, to the extent that the compressed signal can be sent over relatively low bandwidth wireless networks, such as cellular networks. The compressed signal is then uploaded to the wireless network from where it can be relayed to a server, such as an internet server, from where it can be accessed, viewed, manipulated and further used by authorized personnel. Such authorized personnel need not be proximate to the surveillance equipment at all. The digital surveillance system can include fixed cameras mounted in fixed orientations and the signals of the various fixed cameras can be integrated into a wide view, as well as used as individual narrow views. These views are wirelessly communicated to an internet server from where they can be accessed, viewed, manipulated and further used by authorized personnel. To power the cameras and the wireless communication device, one or more solar panels are mounted on or applied to the fixed camera mount. By providing a user with access over a computer network to the surveillance video, the user can monitor a location without owning, operating, or maintaining a surveillance server of its own.
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19 Claims
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1. A wireless digital surveillance method for monitoring remote locations, the surveillance method comprising:
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capturing digital surveillance video with a camera assembly, the camera assembly outputting a video output, collecting the video output of the camera assembly and compressing the video output with a video processor into a low-bandwidth video signal suitable for transmission over low bandwidth wireless networks; wirelessly communicating the low-bandwidth video signal from the video processor over a low bandwidth wireless network and ultimately to a server; and providing access to the server by a user so the user can view the video signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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4. The digital surveillance method of 2, wherein the wide view and/or the narrow views can be digitally zoomed and panned.
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19. A digital surveillance method for temporarily or portably monitoring a location, the method comprising:
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placing a fixed camera mount at the location to be monitored, the fixed camera mount comprising an enclosure housing a camera assembly including a plurality of fixed digital cameras fixedly mounted to the fixed camera mount, with individual ones of the fixed digital cameras pointing in different directions from one another; collecting the outputs of the plurality of fixed digital cameras and integrating the outputs of the plurality of fixed digital cameras into an integrated, compressed video signal having a wide view and multiple narrow views, and outputting the integrated video signal, wherein the compressed video is compressed to such an extent that the integrated, compressed video signal can be transmitted wirelessly over wireless networks; communicating the integrated, compressed video signal wirelessly; and supplying electric power from a battery to the camera assembly, the video processor, and the wireless communication device; whereupon the surveillance can be temporarily or portably deployed to locations not having electric service handy, the camera can be positioned as desired, and operated to send surveillance video signals wirelessly to a remote user monitoring the area under surveillance.
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