Abnormality supervising system
First Claim
1. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means and a detection area setting means providing an output to said abnormality discrimination means, said output being of divided detection areas in said input picture and having respectively different warning levels.
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Abstract
An abnormality supervising system compares an input picture with a previously stored reference picture having no abnormality, provides a compared picture signal to an abnormality discrimination means having preliminarily stored information for abnormality discrimination, and, upon presence of an abnormality, operates an output means for informing operation, whereby the abnormality discrimination means can effectively attain the abnormality discrimination on the basis of the preliminarily stored information, in a highly reliable manner.
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29 Claims
- 1. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means and a detection area setting means providing an output to said abnormality discrimination means, said output being of divided detection areas in said input picture and having respectively different warning levels.
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2. A system according to claim 2, wherein said warning levels are changeable.
- 14. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, a detection area setting means providing an output to said abnormality discrimination means, said output being of divided detection areas in said input picture having respectively different warning levels, and a variation pattern memory means for storing a luminance variation pattern in abnormal state, an output of said variation pattern memory means being provided to said abnormality discrimination means.
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16. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, a detection area setting means providing an output to said abnormality discrimination means, said output being of divided detection areas in said input picture and having respectively different warning levels, and means for providing to said input picture an attribute area in addition to said detection areas and storing a characteristic corresponding to said attribute area, an attribute ouput of said attribute area being provided to said abnormality discrimination means.
- 17. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said picture processing means comprising means for inhibiting renewal of said reference picture when said input picture has a luminance variation.
- 20. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said reference picture being plurally provided in said picture processing means.
- 22. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said abnormality discrimination means receiving an output of an external sensor together with said input picture.
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26. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said picture processing means providing an output to a gate upon overflowing of an A/D converting means, said gate providing a clock signal to a counting means while the gate is on, and said counting means providing an output to said abnormality discriminating means to stop said abnormality discrimination upon reaching a predetermined count.
- 27. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said picture input means including a plurality of picture pickup means, and means for switching outputs of said plurality of picture pickup means upon presence of luminance variation in said input picture.
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29. An abnormality supervising system comprising a picture input means for monitoring a zone to be supervised, a picture processing means for comparing an input picture obtained from said picture input means with a reference picture stored and processing said input picture to obtain information necessary for an abnormality discrimination, an abnormality discrimination means including memory means for preliminarily storing reference information necessary for said abnormality discrimination and to be compared with said information obtained from said picture processing means to discriminate an abnormality of an object in said monitoring zone, an output means receiving an output of said abnormality discrimination means, and said picture input means including color-picture pickup means, and means for extracting only hue components from a picture signal output of said color-picture pickup means and providing said hue components to said picture processing means.
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