Video monitoring system

• US 6,462,773 B1
• Filed: 07/22/1998
• Issued: 10/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Personal Computers, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Koga, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelley, Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, TUNG T
• Application Number:
  US09/120,191
• Time in Patent Office: 1,539 Days
• Field of Search: H04/N.718, 348/141, 348/143, 348/144-150, 348/155, 348/153, 348/154, 348/157-170, 348/146, 382/296
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/7864 T.V. type tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/144 Movement detection for video coding H04N19/503; analysis of motion in general G06T7/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

An optical subscriber unit comprises a portion for detecting whether or not an installation distance of the optical subscriber unit is a short distance or a long distance when the optical subscriber unit receives a subscriber command from a center unit by referring to a received optical power, and a portion for transmitting response burst signal to an entrance use slot of the current frame when the installation distance is the short distance and to an entrance use slot of the next frame when the installation distance is the long distance. The center unit comprises a response burst signal detecting portion for detecting whether or not the response burst signal of the optical subscriber unit against the subscriber command in the current entrance use slot is present in the current entrance use slot, and an installation distance detecting portion for measuring a delay time period of the response burst signal of the optical subscriber unit against the subscriber command in the current entrance use slot so as to obtain the installation distance of the subscriber unit.

Claims

1. A video monitoring system comprising:

imaging means for shooting a subject and outputting a video signal representative of the subject;

a processing unit for;

(a) dividing the video signal output from said imaging means into a number of blocks frame by frame,

(b) calculating mean values of luminance data or color data block by block,

(c) calculating differences between the mean values of the blocks of a current frame and the mean values of the corresponding blocks of a frame that occurred several frames before the current frame,

(d) comparing values derived from said differences and a mean value of said differences with a preselected value to thereby determine whether or not a movement has occurred, and

(e) outputting movement detection data when a movement occurs; and

a display unit for displaying an image of the subject and said movement detection data respectively output from said shooting means and said processing unit.

2. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processing unit is built in said shooting means.

3. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processing unit comprises:

inputting means for receiving the video signal output from said shooting means;

storing means for storing the video signal input via said inputting means;

a calculating section for dividing the video signal read out of said storing means, one frame at a time, into the blocks, calculating the mean values of luminance data or color data of said video signal block by block, calculating the differences between the mean values of the blocks of the current frame and the mean values of the corresponding blocks of the frame occurred several frames before, and calculating absolute values of differences between the individual differences and a mean value of said individual differences block by block;

a controller for comparing said absolute values with the preselected value to thereby detect a block where a movement has occurred, and generating said movement detection data; and

outputting means for sending said movement detection data output from said controller to said display unit.

4. A system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said processing unit is built in said shooting means.