A SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM

• US 20150379355A1
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iOmniscient Pty Ltd.
• Original Assignee: iOmniscient Pty Ltd.
• Inventors: Kanga, Rustom Adi, Li, Ivy Lai Chun
• Granted Patent: US 9,852,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/41 Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items segmenting video sequences G06V20/49
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/44 Event detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/422 Technical drawings; Geographical maps
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

An automated surveillance system is disclosed in this specification. The system comprises a computing system arranged to receive a plurality of surveillance feeds from a surveillance network and detect characteristics of the surveillance feeds that are indicative of categorised events. Each of the surveillance feeds has a geospatial reference tag that identifies the origin of content contained within the feed. The surveillance system determines a response reaction to detected events and identifies potential response units in the vicinity of the surveillance location using the geospatial reference tag.

Claims

1. An automated surveillance system comprising:

a computing system arranged to receive a plurality of surveillance feeds from a surveillance network, each of the surveillance feeds having a geospatial reference tag that identifies a corresponding surveillance location,

a profiling engine that detects characteristics of the surveillance feeds that are indicative of categorized events and classifies the identified characteristics in event records, and

a response module that determines a response reaction to events documented in event records using a response index allocated to corresponding event categories.

2. The system of claim 1 comprising a cognition engine that generates incident reports from combinations of events documented in the event records, each of the incident reports being derived from event combinations that are indicative of predefined incidents.

3. The system of claim 2 comprising a response evaluation engine that determines response reactions for incident reports using a response index allocated to the predefined incident.

4. The system of claim 1 comprising a supervision module that samples the surveillance feeds and generates temporal characteristic profiles, the supervision module transferring the temporal characteristic profiles being to the profiling engine.

5. The system of claim 1 comprising a command module that monitors the geospatial position of a plurality of designated response units and nominates response units that satisfy the response reaction determined by the response module based on proximity to a corresponding surveillance location.

6. The system of claim 5 comprising a dispatch module that monitors response unit availability and dispatches response instructions to available response units nominated by the command module.

7. The system of claim 1 comprising a prioritization module that assesses current event records and assigns a prioritization rating to pending response reactions, the prioritization rating defining a response priority for a corresponding event, the prioritization module deriving the prioritization rating from the response index allocated to a corresponding event category.

8. The system of claim 1 comprising a network interface that receives surveillance feeds from a plurality of surveillance nodes within the surveillance network.

9. The system of claim 1 comprising a tracking engine that identifies response units in the geographical vicinity of designated surveillance locations.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the response module derives event response reactions from the event record classifications generated by the profiling engine.

11. An automated response process comprising:

a computing system receiving a plurality of surveillance feeds from a surveillance network, each of the surveillance feeds having a geospatial reference tag that identifies a corresponding surveillance location,

the computing system detecting characteristics of the surveillance feeds that are indicative of categorized events and classifying the identified characteristics in event records,

the computing system determining a response reaction to events documented in event records using a response index allocated to corresponding event categories and identifying response units in the vicinity of corresponding surveillance locations that are capable of responding to the events.

12. The process of claim 11 comprising the computing system generating incident reports from combinations of events documented in the event records, each of the incident reports being derived from event combinations that are indicative of predefined incidents.

13. The process of claim 12 comprising the computing system determining response reactions for incident reports using a response index allocated to the predefined incident.

14. The process of claim 11 comprising the computing system sampling the surveillance feeds and generating temporal characteristic profiles.

15. The process of claim 11 comprising the computing system monitoring the geospatial position of a plurality of designated response units and nominating potential response units that satisfy the response reaction determined for an event based on proximity to a corresponding surveillance location.

16. The process of claim 15 comprising the computing system monitoring response unit availability and dispatching response instructions to nominated response units that are available.

17. The process of claim 11 comprising the computing system assessing current event records and assigning a prioritization rating to pending response reactions, the prioritization rating being derived from the response index allocated to a corresponding event category and defining a response priority for a corresponding event.

18. The process of claim 11 comprising the computing system receiving surveillance feeds from a plurality of surveillance nodes.

19. An automated response method comprising a computing system generating an incident report from a plurality of individual events detected in a surveillance feed, and the computing system determining a response reaction to the incident report.

20. The method of claim 19 comprising the computing system receiving a geospatial reference tag that identifies a surveillance location for a corresponding surveillance feed.

21. The method of claim 19 comprising the computing system detecting characteristics of the surveillance feed that are indicative of categorized events and classifying the identified characteristics in event records.

22. The method of claim 19 comprising the computing system monitoring the geospatial position of a plurality of designated response units and selecting potential response units that satisfy the response reaction based on proximity to a corresponding surveillance location.

23. The method of claim 19 comprising the computing system sampling the surveillance feed and generating temporal characteristic profiles.

24. The method of claim 19 comprising the computing system generating individual incident reports from combinations of events that are indicative of predefined incidents.

25. The method of claim 24 comprising the computing system assigning each of the incident reports a prioritization rating that is derived from a response index allocated to a corresponding predefined incident, the prioritization rating defining a response priority for the incident.

26. The process of any one of claims 19 to 25 claim 19 comprising the computing system receiving surveillance feeds from a plurality of surveillance locations and/or surveillance devices.

27. An automated surveillance system comprising a computing system arranged to receive a plurality of surveillance feeds from a surveillance network, and having an analysis engine arranged to aggregate and analyse information from a plurality of surveillance feeds to determine one or more incidents, and to determine a response to the one or more incidents.

28. The system of claim 27 comprising a profiling engine that detects characteristics of the surveillance feeds that are indicative of categorized events and classifies the characteristics in event records.

29. The system of claim 28 comprising a response module that determines a response to events documented in event records and identifies response units in the vicinity of a corresponding surveillance location.

30. The system of claim 27 comprising a cognition engine that generates incident reports from combinations of events documented in the event records, each of the incident reports being derived from event combinations that are indicative of predefined incidents.

31. The system of claim 30 comprising a response evaluation engine that determines response reactions for incident reports using a response index allocated to the predefined incident.

32. The system of claim 28 comprising a supervision module that samples the surveillance feeds and generates temporal characteristic profiles, the supervision module transferring the temporal characteristic profiles to the profiling engine.

33. The system of claim 28 comprising a command module that monitors the geospatial position of a plurality of designated response units and nominates response units capable of responding to the one or more incidents based on proximity to a surveillance location.

34. The system of claim 33 comprising a dispatch module that monitors response unit availability and dispatches response instructions to available response units nominated by the command module.

35. The system of claim 28 comprising a prioritization module that assesses current event records and assigns a prioritization rating to pending responses, the prioritization rating defining a response priority for a corresponding event, the prioritization module deriving the prioritization rating from a response index allocated to a corresponding event category.

36. The system of claim 27 comprising network interface that receives surveillance feeds from plurality of surveillance nodes and distributes the surveillance feeds to the profiling engine.