Event monitoring report and display system

• US 8,803,969 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kondo, Tetsujiro, Kobayashi, Naoki, Fujimori, Yasuhiro, Takahashi, Yasuaki, Ohta, Koji, Takeda, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Gami, Tejal
• Application Number:
  US12/642,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20100097466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,698 Days
• Field of Search: 348/143, 700/10, 700/1, 345/440, 375/240.16, 386/46
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/002 specially adapted for covering the peripheral part of the vehicle, e.g. for viewing tyres, bumpers or the like integrated in the windows B60R1/001; combined with rear-view mirrors B60R1/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19652 Systems using zones in a single scene defined for different treatment, e.g. outer zone gives pre-alarm, inner zone gives alarm
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1966 Wireless systems, other than telephone systems, used to communicate with a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19663 Surveillance related processing done local to the camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1968 Interfaces for setting up or customising the system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• 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 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for displaying the event. When an infrared sensor detects an abnormality, a microwave sensor whose power consumption is small after the infrared sensor is turned ON. When the microwave sensor detects an abnormality, a video camera and a microphone are turned ON, and the microwave sensor is turned OFF. A communication unit wirelessly transmits an image signal captured by the video camera and an audio signal processed by the microphone. Then, if the infrared sensor does not detect an abnormality, the video camera and the microphone are turned OFF.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for performing monitor processing, comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect a first event from a remote monitoring security camera based on determining parameters;

generate, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, display data by inserting first event data, for reporting an occurrence of the first event, into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal,

control displaying of the generated display data,

wherein

the television broadcast audio-visual program data is received by a television receiver over a television communication network and provided to the information processing apparatus,

upon occurrence of the first event, the circuitry further controls displaying of the display data as a picture-in-picture display in which an image captured by the security camera and associated with the first event data is displayed within a video program image contained within the television broadcast audio-visual program data,

when no event has occurred, said circuitry is further configured to generate the television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data, and

wherein the first event data is displayed as the display data only in response to the occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, and

receive a decision from a user in response to the display of the generated display data indicating whether the first event should be continued to be reported in the future, and

update the determining parameters based on the received decision such that a second event equivalent to the first event would not be detected in the future.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said circuitry is further configured to generate remote-controller display data including the first event data for reporting the occurrence of the first event to a first information processing apparatus which remote-controls said information processing apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to

receive message data for reporting the occurrence of the first event from a second information processing apparatus;

transmit the remote-controller display data to said first information processing apparatus;

receive a decision signal corresponding to the decision based on the remote-controller display data from said first information processing apparatus; and

transmit the decision signal to said second information processing apparatus,

wherein said display data is generated based on the message data.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein wireless communication is utilized in the reception of the message data and the transmission of the decision signal.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to

extract a feature of an object based on sensor data;

obtain the extracted feature to determine whether the first event has occurred based on the determination parameters;

receive a decision signal corresponding to the decision based on the display data from a first information processing apparatus; and

perform control processing based on the received decision signal,

wherein the display data is generated based on a determination result of whether the first event has occurred.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said circuitry is further configured to update the determination parameters for determining whether the event has occurred, control the extraction processing of the feature, and transmit a signal for controlling the obtaining processing of the sensor data by said first information processing apparatus to said first information processing apparatus.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said circuitry is further configured to transmit a signal for turning ON or OFF a plurality of sensors provided for said first information processing apparatus.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determining parameters correspond to at least one of inter-frame difference of image data output from the remote monitoring security camera, a center of gravity of the inter-frame difference of the image data, and an amount by which sensor data output from an infrared sensor changes.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determining parameters correspond to each of inter-frame difference of image data output from the remote monitoring security camera, a center of gravity of the inter-frame difference of the image data, and an amount by which sensor data output from an infrared sensor changes.

8. An information processing apparatus for performing monitor processing, comprising:

a first event detecting mechanism configured to detect the first event from a remote monitoring security camera based on determining parameters;

a display-data generating mechanism configured to generate, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, display data by inserting first event data, for reporting the occurrence of the first event, into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal, wherein,

the television broadcast audio-visual program data is received by a television receiver over a television communication network and provided to the information processing apparatus,

upon occurrence of the first event, the display data is displayed as picture-in-picture display in which an image captured by the security camera and associated with the event data is displayed within a video program image contained within the television broadcast audio-visual program data,

when no event has occurred, said display-data generating mechanism is configured to generate the television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data, and

wherein the first event data is displayed as the display data only in response to the occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera;

a reception mechanism configured to receive a decision from a user in response to the display of the generated display data indicating whether the first event should be continued to be reported in the future; and

an updating mechanism configured to update the determining parameters based on the received decision such that a second event equivalent to the first event would not be detected in the future.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a display for displaying the display data generated by said display-data generating mechanism.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said display-data generating mechanism is further configured to generate remote-controller display data including the first event data for reporting the occurrence of the first event to a first information processing apparatus which remote-controls said information processing apparatus.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

an event-message reception mechanism configured to receive message data for reporting the occurrence of the first event from a second information processing apparatus;

a display-data transmission mechanism configured to transmit the remote-controller display data to said first information processing apparatus;

a decision signal reception mechanism configured to receive a decision signal corresponding to the decision based on the remote-controller display data from said first information processing apparatus; and

a decision signal transmission mechanism configured to transmit the decision signal received by said decision signal reception mechanism to said second information processing apparatus,

wherein said display-data generating mechanism is configured to perform processing based on the message data.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein wireless communication is performed in said event-message reception means and in said decision signal transmission mechanism.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a feature extracting mechanism configured to extract a feature of an object based on sensor data;

an event determining mechanism configured to obtain the feature extracted by said feature extracting mechanism so as to determine whether the first event has occurred based on determination parameters;

a reception mechanism configured to receive a decision signal corresponding to the decision based on the display data from a first information processing apparatus; and

a controller configured to perform control processing based on the decision signal received by said reception mechanism,

wherein said display-data generating mechanism is configured to generate the display data based on a determination result of said event determining mechanism.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said controller updates the determination parameters for determining whether the event has occurred by said event determining mechanism, controls the extraction processing of the feature by said feature extracting mechanism, and transmits a signal for controlling the obtaining processing of the sensor data by said first information processing apparatus to said first information processing apparatus.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said controller transmits a signal for turning ON or OFF a plurality of sensors provided for said first information processing apparatus.

16. An information processing method for performing monitor processing, comprising:

detecting a first event from a remote monitoring security camera based on determining parameters;

generating, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, display data by inserting first event data, for reporting the occurrence of the first event, into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal, the television broadcast audio-visual program data being received by a television receiver over a television communication network and provided to the information processing apparatus, and the display data being displayed as picture-in-picture display in which an image captured by the security camera and associated with the first event data is displayed within a video program image contained within the television broadcast audio-visual program data, the event data being displayed as the display data only in response to the occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera;

generating, while no event from a remote monitoring security camera is detected, said television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data;

receiving a decision from a user in response to the display of the generated display data indicating whether the first event should be continued to be reported in the future; and

updating the determining parameters based on the received decision such that a second event equivalent to the first event would not be detected in the future.

17. The information processing method according to claim 16, further comprising:

switching to generating display data by inserting the first event data into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal, from generating said television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera.