Generating and storing an asset at a PORT apparatus

• US 20130057685A1
• Filed: 11/01/2012
• Published: 03/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VIAAS, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Third Iron LLC
• Inventors: ROSKOWSKI, STEVEN GADDARD
• Granted Patent: US 9,472,069 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19602 Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19665 Details related to the storage of video surveillance data television signal recording H04N5/76
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19667 Details realated to data compression, encryption or encoding, e.g. resolution modes for reducing data volume to lower transmission bandwidth or memory requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1685 the supervisory signal being transmitted in response to a specific request, e.g. to a polling signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/125 Arrangements for preventing errors in the return channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A system for providing video intelligence as a service to a plurality of small and medium sized enterprises to distributed video recordation equipment, comprising an apparatus and computer-implemented method. An apparatus comprises a point of recordation terminal apparatus coupled to a public network. A method for operating a system for video intelligence in a public network in a secure manner.

Claims

1. An apparatus for generating and storing an asset comprising

means for reading and encoding a PORT identification,

means for generating a PORT unique identification for the asset,

means for generating multiple representations of the event, and

means for indicating the timing relationship between multiple representations,

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the asset is an encrypted digital file.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:

means for determining and encoding a type of event.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising

means for computing and storing a digital signature.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising

means for determining and storing a preroll before the start of the event.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising

means for determining and storing a postroll after the end of the event.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising

means for deriving a metadata value for the number of moving objects.

8. An apparatus for generating, and transmitting a reference comprising

means for reading and encoding a camera identification,

means for reading and encoding a time of day of an asset,

means for determining and storing a type of event, and

means for reading and encoding an offset of the event relative to the time of day of the asset.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein a reference is an encrypted digital file.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising

means for determining and storing a digital signature.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising

means for deriving a low resolution, scaled still image.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising

means for reading and storing a size of the asset.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising

means for deriving a meta-data value for speed of moving object.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein said means comprises:

a processor coupled to computer-readable media encoded with instructions

to compute meta-data values,

to determine the size of an asset,

to determine an event,

to select a high resolution digital photograph from an image sequence,

to convert an image sequence into a medium resolution video image sequence,

to derive a compressed, scaled, low resolution representation from a selected high resolution digital photograph,

to read camera identification and

to compute a digital signature, wherein a reference comprises a plurality of digital files encoded by strong encryption.

15. An apparatus comprising:

a digital camera coupled to

a formatting circuit coupled to

an encryption circuit coupled to

an archive store, wherein the encryption circuit comprises

an input for reading a unique camera identification key,

an input for reading a video stream from the formatting circuit,

a processor for encoding the video stream with time, date, and the unique camera identification key, and

an output for writing the resultant encoded video stream to the archive store.

16. A point of recordation terminal apparatus comprising:

a network interface, the network interface coupled to a network;

an asset &

event capture circuit;

a reference selection &

meta-tagger circuit;

a bandwidth controller circuit; and

an encryption circuit, whereby captured assets and references are encrypted prior to transmission.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising

an archive store coupled to the encryption circuit whereby captured assets and references are stored in encrypted form into the archive store.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the encryption circuit is uniquely associated with the specific PORT by cryptographic operation.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the encryption circuit indicates the time and date of the event of interest by cryptographic operation on the assets.

20. A method of operating an apparatus comprising a network interface, the network interface coupled to a network;

an asset &

event capture circuit;

a reference selection &

meta-tagger circuit;

a bandwidth controller circuit; and

an encryption circuit, whereby captured assets and references are encrypted prior to transmission;

an archive store coupled to the encryption circuit whereby captured assets and references are stored in encrypted form into the archive store, wherein the encryption circuit is uniquely associated with the specific PORT by cryptographic operation, wherein the encryption circuit indicates the time and date of the event of interest by cryptographic operation on the assets, the method comprising

transmitting a reference immediately while storing an asset into the archive store; and

temporarily storing the transmitted reference and storing it to the archive store in case the transmission fails,

wherein storing comprises the steps of

detecting when the transmission is likely to be possible again and

retransmitting the reference.