Ambient presentation of surveillance data

• US 8,860,812 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2012
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Generac Power Systems Incorporated (Generac Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Senior, Andrew William
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US13/587,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20120307073A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 348/159, 348/143
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A system and method for presentation of surveillance data includes a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors. A second environment includes one or more information presentation devices configured to convey an event or state occurring in the first environment by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the event or state.

Claims

1. A system for presentation of surveillance data comprising:

a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors;

a second environment including one or more information presentation devices configured to convey at least one of an event and a state occurring in the first environment by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the at least one of the event and the state, the second environment including a monitoring control room configured to isolate a monitoring operator such that the monitoring operator is precluded from directly perceiving the first environment from the monitoring control room.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the ambient sensory condition is visually perceivable by the operator other than by foveated vision.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include cameras.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include one or more wall screens, wherein the wall screen displays a representation of an object being tracked.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the ambient sensory condition includes the representation displayed against the background.

6. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the representation of the object being tracked includes an icon.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices include transducing elements including at least one of sound producing devices and light producing devices such that one or more of intensity, frequency and source location of energy from the transducing elements are temporally altered to convey the ambient sensory condition in accordance with the type and/or level of the event.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the transducing elements cooperate to provide a spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound or light is generated conveys information to the operator for given events.

9. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the spatial relationship simulates at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

10. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the second environment includes a space for presentation of surveillance video wherein a plurality of video sources are presented of the first environment from a point of view of the second environment as though captured from a location of an operator.

11. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices are configured to convey one of the event and the state occurring in the first environment such that certain information is highlighted according to a criteria.

12. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more information presentation devices are configured to convey one of the event and the state occurring in the first environment such that certain information is masked according to a criteria.