BIOMETRIC NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
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1. A biometric notification system (“
- BNS”
) with facial recognition and related services, the system comprising;
plural digital video cameras (C1 . . . Cn) that monitor respective zones (Z1 . . . Zn) at a first site;
a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility;
a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility;
a video frame acquired from a video camera Cx in zone Zx includes a first content and a first facial feature set derived from the first content;
a database of the database facility includes plural cases, each case identifies a person by linking a name with a second facial feature set and a case group; and
,a matched case discovered when the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set;
wherein message trigger criteria include a requirement that a matched case is discovered.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a biometric notification system for selectively sending messages to interested recipients. In various embodiments, message trigger criteria, interested recipients, and message content may vary depending upon, among other things, the service being provided.
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1. A biometric notification system (“
- BNS”
) with facial recognition and related services, the system comprising;plural digital video cameras (C1 . . . Cn) that monitor respective zones (Z1 . . . Zn) at a first site; a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility; a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility; a video frame acquired from a video camera Cx in zone Zx includes a first content and a first facial feature set derived from the first content; a database of the database facility includes plural cases, each case identifies a person by linking a name with a second facial feature set and a case group; and
,a matched case discovered when the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set; wherein message trigger criteria include a requirement that a matched case is discovered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A biometric notification method with facial recognition and related services, the method comprising the steps of:
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providing plural digital video cameras (C1 . . . Cn) for monitoring respective zones (Z1 . . . Zn) at a first site, a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility, and a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility; acquiring a video frame from a video camera Cx in zone Zx including a first content and a first facial feature set derived from the first content; in a database of a database facility including plural cases, identifying each case with a name that is linked to a second facial feature set and a case group; and
,discovering a matched case if the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set, message trigger criteria including a requirement that a matched case be discovered. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27)
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24. The method of claim 23 wherein for a particular person of interest, a facial feature set of the person is compared with the facial feature sets of archive folders and matched folders are identified and the video frames of the matched folders are arranged for playback in chronological order.
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25. The method of claim 23 further comprising the steps of:
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providing a first automated video editing feature; wherein if a sequence of frames from a first camera to see the person of interest overlaps chronologically with a sequence of frames from a second camera to see the person of interest, then sufficient frames are removed from the overlap to eliminate the overlap. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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28. A biometric notification system (“
- BNS”
) with facial recognition and related services, the system comprising;plural digital video cameras (C1 . . . Cn) that monitor respective zones (Z1 . . . Zn); a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility; a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility; a database of the database facility includes plural cases, each case identifies a person by linking a name with a case facial feature set and a case group; a person of interest selected from the database of cases; for each camera, collecting video frames that include a facial image that matches the case facial feature set and associating each such frame with a date and time; and
,assembling the collected video frames such that the frames are presented in chronological order; wherein the only video frames subjected to the matching process are video frames that correspond to the case group of the selected person.
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