METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS THEREOF

• US 20130145270A1
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: On-Net Surveillance Systems Incorporated (Hexagon AB)
• Original Assignee: On-Net Surveillance Systems Incorporated (Hexagon AB)
• Inventors: Piran, Gadi, Diamant, Shmuel, Nielsen, Morten
• Application Number:
  US13/753,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20130145270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/720
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19693 using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen

Abstract

A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising:

determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window; and

generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating includes the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon an input by a human operator.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the windows generated by the generating step are representative of portions of the video displaced from one another by a pre-determined period of time.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the pre-determined period of time is defined by a human operator.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon a detection of movement in the video.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon a detection of an event in the video.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the selection of an area of interest is performed by drawing a graphical box around the area of interest on the source window.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining an area of interest is performed based upon a detection of movement in an area of the video.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein determining an area of interest is performed based upon a detection of an event in an area of the video.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the controls include zoom controls.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the windows are thumbnail sized.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the size of each window can be altered.

14. A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising a map designating a location of at least one monitoring sensor and a source window to view play back of a video, the surveillance method comprising:

displaying a video being detected by the at least one monitoring sensor;

displaying a section of the map representing the location of the at least one monitoring sensor detecting the video.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the video displayed is displaced based upon an instruction received through a network.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the instruction is issued by a human operator.

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22. An improved computer implemented graphical user interface for monitoring video surveillance comprising:

a viewing region for viewing a video;

a video navigation region for manipulating the viewing of the video;

a thumbnail region which dynamically displays select frames of the video based on a pre-defined criteria each frame having a navigation region for viewing of the video beginning with the displayed frame;

wherein selecting individual frames of the video populates the viewing region with said individual frame and plays the video beginning with the selected frame.

23. An improved graphical user interface of claim 22 further comprising an alert notification region for alerting a user of the graphical user interface to a pre-defined occurrence in the video.