SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING VIDEO DATA

• US 20190313062A1
• Filed: 06/11/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Worrill, Joshua
• Granted Patent: US 10,863,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• 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

Described herein are systems and methods for managing video data. Embodiments are described by reference to a Digital Video Management (DVM) system, for example methods for providing a user with access to view live feed from cameras in a DVM system. In overview, a DVM system is configured to provide a user interface for allowing an operator to view a plurality of video display objects, wherein each display object is configured to display live video data captured at a camera of the DVM system. The user interface is further configured to provide access to one or more camera groups, wherein the one or more camera groups are respectively defined by dynamic parameters. The DVM system executes a process for updating the constituent cameras of each camera group responsive to changes in the dynamic parameters. For example, in one embodiment there is a camera group defined by cameras recently viewed by a particular client. That group is updated thereby to provide an operator with quick and convenient access to recently viewed cameras.

Claims

1. A user interface for a digital video management (DVM) system, the user interface comprising:

a camera display history object including a plurality of video display objects each simultaneously displaying live video data capture at a camera of the DVM system; and

a set of camera objects, at least one of the camera objects including one or more camera groups, each camera group including one or more constituent cameras that are all providing live video streaming; and

wherein;

the one or more camera groups are defined based on dynamic parameters which change automatically over time such that the constituent cameras that are in a given group change over time; and

the constituent cameras that make up each camera group in response to changes in the dynamic parameters.

2. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the one or more camera groups includes a recently viewed camera group defined by the most recent n cameras viewed via the user interface, wherein 0<

n<

a predefined maximum.

3. The user interface of claim 2, wherein the user interface is configured to display a screen object containing video display objects indicative of the cameras in the recently viewed camera group.

4. The user interface of claim 3, wherein the video display objects provide live video streaming.

5. The user interface of claim 4, wherein the live video streaming is at a rate less than the rate of streaming when the cameras where being viewed.

6. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the live video streaming rate varies between the cameras in the viewed camera groups in response to specified criteria.

7. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the user interface is configured to enable user creation of camera groups based on specified dynamic parameters.

8. The user interface of claim 1, wherein the one or more groups are defined by dynamic parameters thereby to configure groups for one or more of the following:

cameras recently viewed at a given client terminal;

cameras recently viewed across the DVM system;

cameras having a high view rate over a predefined period;

cameras having greater than a threshold incident rate over a predefined period;

cameras having greater than a threshold motion rate over a predefined period;

cameras having greater than a threshold number of movement observations, based on analytics software, over a predefined period;

cameras in respect of which alarms have been raised over a predefined period;

cameras which have had greater than a threshold number of fail or error conditions over a predetermined period; and

cameras having a fail or error condition.

9. The user interface of claim 8, wherein each group has a maximum size, and is populated by a set of cameras of up to and including the maximum size that best satisfy the dynamic parameters.

10. The user interface of claim 1, wherein a given camera group is displayable in a user interface object including a screenshot or streaming feed for each of the cameras.

11. A display of a digital video management (DVM) system, the display configured to display:

a camera display history object including a plurality of video display objects each simultaneously displaying live video data capture at a camera of the DVM system; and

a set of camera objects, at least one of the camera objects including one or more camera groups, each camera group including one or more constituent cameras that are all providing live video streaming; and

wherein;

the one or more camera groups are defined based on dynamic parameters which change automatically over time such that the constituent cameras that are in a given group change over time; and

the constituent cameras that make up each camera group in response to changes in the dynamic parameters.

12. The display of claim 11, wherein a camera server is configured to utilise video data from an assigned one or more video streaming units and a streaming unit is configured to stream, onto a network, video data for a respective camera.

13. The display of claim 11, wherein the one or more camera groups includes a recently viewed camera group defined by the most recent n cameras viewed via the user interface, wherein 0<

n<

a predefined maximum.

14. The display of claim 13 further configured to display a screen object containing video display objects indicative of the cameras in the recently viewed camera group.

15. The display of claim 11, wherein the live video streaming rate varies between the cameras in the viewed camera groups in response to specified criteria.

16. The display of claim 11, wherein the user interface is configured to enable user creation of camera groups based on specified dynamic parameters.

17. A tangible non-transitive computer-readable carrier medium carrying computer executable code that, when executed via one or more processes, displays:

a camera display history object including a plurality of video display objects each simultaneously displaying live video data capture at a camera of the DVM system; and

a set of camera objects, at least one of the camera objects including one or more camera groups, each camera group including one or more constituent cameras that are all providing live video streaming; and

wherein;

the one or more camera groups are defined based on dynamic parameters which change automatically over time such that the constituent cameras that are in a given group change over time; and

the constituent cameras that make up each camera group in response to changes in the dynamic parameters.

18. The computer-readable carrier medium according to claim 17 wherein the one or more camera groups includes a recently viewed camera group defined by the most recent n cameras viewed via the user interface, wherein 0<

n<

a predefined maximum.

19. The computer-readable carrier medium according to claim 17 wherein the live video streaming rate varies between the cameras in the viewed camera groups in response to specified criteria.

20. The computer-readable carrier medium according to claim 17 wherein the user interface is configured to enable user creation of camera groups based on specified dynamic parameters.