Object monitoring system detecting motion and tracking human skin
First Claim
1. An object monitoring system, including:
- a slave system having slave processors and a plurality of cameras for monitoring one or more objects, each camera having a field of view, images of said cameras being processed by respective ones of said slave processors, and said slave processors including sensors assigned to respective cameras and at least parts of the fields of view of said cameras to analyze said at least parts, detect predetermined characteristics of said at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto;
a master system having a master processor including agents assigned to at least one of said objects and having one or more of said sensors allocated thereto, each of said agents being allocated at least two sensors that are from different processors, and said agents each generating an event on receiving said trigger from the one or more allocated sensors; and
an event system receives events from said agents and determines whether the received events represent an alarm condition, wherein said event system identifies the occurrence of an alarm condition only when said master system receives a trigger from a specified combination of said sensors.
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Abstract
An object monitoring system, including a slave system having slave processors (14, 16) and a plurality of cameras (10) for monitoring one or more objects, images of the cameras (10) being processed by respective ones of the slave processor (14, 16), and the slave processors including sensors (30) assigned to respective cameras (10) and at least parts of the fields of view of the cameras (10) to detect predetermined characteristics of the at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto. A master system has to master processor (20) including agents (34) assigned to at least one of the objects and having one or more of the sensors (30) allocated thereto, the agents (34) each generating an event on receiving triggers from the one or more allocated sensors (30). An event system (6) receives the events and determines whether an alarm condition exists. A user interface system (8) can configure the sensors (30) and agents (34) and respond to events. The monitoring can be used to protect a number of objects, such as paintings and artworks held in a number of locations, from human theft.
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39 Claims
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1. An object monitoring system, including:
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a slave system having slave processors and a plurality of cameras for monitoring one or more objects, each camera having a field of view, images of said cameras being processed by respective ones of said slave processors, and said slave processors including sensors assigned to respective cameras and at least parts of the fields of view of said cameras to analyze said at least parts, detect predetermined characteristics of said at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto; a master system having a master processor including agents assigned to at least one of said objects and having one or more of said sensors allocated thereto, each of said agents being allocated at least two sensors that are from different processors, and said agents each generating an event on receiving said trigger from the one or more allocated sensors; and an event system receives events from said agents and determines whether the received events represent an alarm condition, wherein said event system identifies the occurrence of an alarm condition only when said master system receives a trigger from a specified combination of said sensors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An object monitoring system, including:
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a plurality of sensors assigned to respective zones in a monitored area and which process pixels representing a zone to detect predetermined characteristics in said zone and generate a trigger in response thereto; a plurality of agents respectively assigned to at least one object and having one or more of the sensors allocated thereto, at least two of said allocated sensors monitoring different zones, and said agents generating respective events on receiving triggers from the one or more allocated sensors; and an event processor receives the events and generates an alarm signal when said events represent an alarm condition, wherein said event processor identifies the occurrence of an alarm condition only when a specified combination of said sensors generate a trigger. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method of monitoring an object, including:
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monitoring a plurality of zones in an area using a plurality of sensors for each zone, each of which processes pixels representing said zone; detecting predetermined characteristics in said zone using said sensors and generating a trigger at one of said sensors in response to said sensor detecting a predetermined characteristic; receiving said trigger at an agent assigned to said object and to which said sensors are assigned, wherein sensors from more than one zone are assigned to said agent; generating an event using said agent in response to receiving triggers from a plurality of sensors assigned to the agent; and detecting said event and determining whether an alarm condition exists, wherein the occurrence of an alarm condition is identified only when each one of a specified combination of said sensors generates a trigger. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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38. An object monitoring system comprising:
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a plurality of cameras; a plurality of slave processors, each comprising a plurality of software sensors, a plurality of software agents; and an event system;
wherein;each of said cameras is allocated to one of said slave processors; each of said software sensors analyses at least a part of the image produced by the camera allocated to its slave processor, and generates a trigger when it detects a predetermined characteristic of said part; each of said agents is allocated to and receives triggers from a plurality of said software sensors, at least two of said allocated software sensors belonging to different slave processors; each of said software agents generates an event when it receives a trigger from each software sensor in a predetermined set of its allocated software sensors; and said event system receives events from said software agents and automatically determines whether the received events represent an alarm condition.
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39. A method of monitoring an object, comprising the steps of:
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generating images using a plurality of cameras, each of which has a plurality of allocated sensors, wherein each of said sensors processes pixels representing at least a part of the image produced by its allocated camera; at least one of said sensors, detecting a predetermined characteristic and generating a trigger; at an agent that is allocated to a set of said sensors, at least two of the set of sensors being allocated to different cameras, receiving a plurality of triggers from at least some of said set of sensors; at said agent, identifying a condition to the effect that said plurality of triggers conform to a predetermined set of triggers and generating an event; and detecting said event and automatically determining whether an alarm condition exists.
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