VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20140300758A1
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bao Tran
• Original Assignee: Bao Tran
• Inventors: Tran, Bao
• Application Number:
  US13/300,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20140300758A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators

Abstract

A smart camera system is disclosed. The camera can work with cloud data storage systems and compute cloud. A call center can access the cloud to provide security monitoring services.

Claims

1. A smart camera, comprising:

an imager;

a video analytic engine (VA) coupled to the imager;

an advanced video coding (AVC) engine coupled to the imager; and

a network processor coupled to the VA engine and the AVC engine.

2. The smart camera of claim 1, wherein the AVC engine comprises an H.264 engine.

3. The smart camera of claim 1, wherein the AVC engine performs scalable video coding (SVC).

4. The smart camera of claim 1, wherein the VA engine comprises a cellular neural network (CNN).

5. The smart camera of claim 1, wherein the VA engine and the AVC engine comprise a graphic processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of processors to process a plurality of computing threads.

6. The smart camera of claim 1, wherein a video comprises a plurality of video slices and wherein the VA engine and the AVC engine comprise a graphic processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of processors each processing a slice.

7. The smart camera of claim 1, comprising a call center coupled to the network processor.

8. The smart camera of claim 1, comprising an elastic compute cloud coupled to the network processor.

9. The smart camera of claim 1, comprising a cloud based data storage device coupled to the network processor.

10. The smart camera of claim 1, comprising a parallel search engine coupled to the cloud based data storage device.

11. A smart camera, comprising:

an imager to capture a video;

a video analytic (VA) engine coupled to the imager, the VA engine detecting objects in an image and generating metadata for each object and video;

an advanced video coding (AVC) engine coupled to the imager; and

a network processor coupled to the VA engine and the AVC engine; and

a cloud based data storage device coupled to the network processor to store the video and affiliated metadata.

12. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein the AVC engine comprises an H.264 engine.

13. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein the AVC engine performs scalable video coding (SVC).

14. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein the VA engine comprises a cellular neural network (CNN).

15. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein the VA engine and the AVC engine comprise a graphic processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of processors to process a plurality of computing threads.

16. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein a video comprises a plurality of video slices and wherein the VA engine and the AVC engine comprise a graphic processing unit (GPU) having a plurality of processors each processing a slice.

17. The smart camera of claim 11, comprising a call center coupled to the network processor.

18. The smart camera of claim 11, comprising an elastic compute cloud coupled to the network processor.

19. The smart camera of claim 11, wherein the cloud based data storage device comprises a parallel data base.

20. The smart camera of claim 11, comprising a parallel search engine coupled to the cloud based data storage device.