SECURITY MONITORING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING AUGMENTED REALITY

• US 20130050496A1
• Filed: 07/17/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: JEONG, Chi Yoon
• Application Number:
  US13/550,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20130050496A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Disclosed is a security monitoring apparatus using augmented reality, including: an integrated event collector that collects events generated in a physical security region and an information security region; a security condition information generator that generates security condition information about each object to be monitored based on the collected events; and a security condition display unit that augments and displays the security condition information about the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by cameras in the videos.

Claims

1. A security monitoring apparatus using augmented reality, comprising:

an integrated event collector that collects events generated in a physical security region and an information security region;

a security condition information generator that generates security condition information about each object to be monitored based on the collected events; and

a security condition display unit that augments and displays the security condition information about the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by cameras in the videos.

2. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 1, wherein the security condition information includes security risk levels.

3. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an object information database that stores object information including positional information of each object to be monitored.

4. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 3, wherein the security condition display unit uses the positional information of the cameras, camera motion information, and the object information stored in the object information database to identify the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by the cameras.

5. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 2, wherein the security condition information generator includes:

an event aggregation module that aggregates and accumulates event data for each object to be monitored to generate statistical information; and

a security condition determination module that uses the statistical information to calculate the security risk levels for each object to be monitored.

6. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 1, wherein the security condition display unit includes:

an object identification module that uses the positional information of the cameras, camera motion information, and the positional information of each object to be monitored to identify the objects to be monitored existing in the videos; and

an augmented reality based display module that augments and displays the security condition information about the identified objects to be monitored in the videos.

7. A security monitoring apparatus using augmented reality, comprising:

an integrated event collector that collects events generated in a physical security region and an information security region;

a security condition information generator that calculates security risk levels for each object to be monitored based on the collected events; and

a security condition display unit that augments and displays the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by cameras in the videos.

8. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 7, wherein the security condition information generator aggregates and accumulates event data for each object to be monitored to generate statistical information and calculates the security risk levels for each object to be monitored using the statistical information.

9. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 7, wherein the security condition display unit simultaneously displays a plurality of videos photographed by a plurality of cameras and augments and displays the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored existing in the corresponding videos for each video in the corresponding videos.

10. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 9, wherein the security condition display unit changes an arrangement order of the plurality of videos according to a total sum of the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored for each video.

11. The security monitoring apparatus of claim 9, wherein the security condition display unit differently displays a size of at least one of the plurality of videos from those of other videos according to the total sum of the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored for each video.

12. A security monitoring method using augmented reality, comprising:

collecting events generated in a physical security region and an information security region;

generating security condition information about each object to be monitored based on the collected events; and

augmenting and displaying the security condition information about the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by cameras in the videos.

13. The security monitoring method of claim 12, wherein the security condition information includes security risk levels.

14. The security monitoring method of claim 12, wherein the augmenting and displaying of the security condition information in the videos includes:

using positional information of the cameras, camera motion information, and the positional information of each object to be monitored to identify the objects to be monitored existing in the videos photographed by the cameras; and

augmenting and displaying the security condition information about the identified objects to be monitored in the videos.

15. The security monitoring method of claim 13, wherein the generating of the security condition information includes:

aggregating and accumulating event data for each object to be monitored to generate statistical information; and

using the statistical information to calculate the security risk levels for each object to be monitored.

16. The security monitoring method of claim 13, wherein in the augmenting and displaying of the security condition information in the videos, a plurality of videos photographed by a plurality of cameras are simultaneously displayed and the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored existing in the corresponding videos for each video are augmented and displayed in the corresponding videos.

17. The security monitoring method of claim 16, wherein in the augmenting and displaying of the security condition information in the videos, an arrangement order of the plurality of videos is changed according to a total sum of the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored for each video.

18. The security monitoring method of claim 16, wherein in the augmenting and displaying of the security condition information in the videos, a size of at least one of the plurality of videos is differently displayed from those of other videos according to the total sum of the security risk levels for the objects to be monitored for each video.