Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems
First Claim
1. A surveillance method comprising:
- using at least one event sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event;
using at least one camera with a view of the security area in which the event is sensed to gather biometric information concerning at least one person in the view of the one camera at a first time that is about the time of the sensing of the event;
producing a subject dossier corresponding to the at least one person;
using the at least one camera and one or more other cameras that have different views of different regions in the surveillance region such that, as the at least one person travels out of a first region and into a second region of the surveillance region, the at least one person travels out of the view of the at least one camera and into the view of at least a second camera from the one or more other cameras; and
matching biometric information of one or more persons, that is captured by the one or more other cameras at a second time that differs from the first time, with corresponding biometric information in the subject dossier.
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Abstract
A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
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21 Claims
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1. A surveillance method comprising:
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using at least one event sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; using at least one camera with a view of the security area in which the event is sensed to gather biometric information concerning at least one person in the view of the one camera at a first time that is about the time of the sensing of the event; producing a subject dossier corresponding to the at least one person; using the at least one camera and one or more other cameras that have different views of different regions in the surveillance region such that, as the at least one person travels out of a first region and into a second region of the surveillance region, the at least one person travels out of the view of the at least one camera and into the view of at least a second camera from the one or more other cameras; and matching biometric information of one or more persons, that is captured by the one or more other cameras at a second time that differs from the first time, with corresponding biometric information in the subject dossier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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9. A surveillance method comprising:
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using at least one event sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; using a plurality of cameras that have different views of different regions in the surveillance region, wherein as at least one person travels out of a first region and into a second region of the surveillance region, the at least one person travels out of the view of at least one camera and into the view of at least a second camera from the one or more other cameras; using the at least one camera with a view of the security area in which the event is sensed to gather biometric information concerning at least one person in the vicinity of the security area at about the time of the sensing of the event, wherein the at least one camera gathers estimated direction of travel of the at least one person; producing a subject dossier corresponding to the at least one person; and determining which one or more other cameras are in the vicinity of the at least one camera based upon the estimated direction of travel; and matching biometric information of one or more persons captured by the one or more other cameras in the vicinity of the at least one camera with corresponding biometric information in the subject dossier.
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16. A surveillance system comprising:
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at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras having corresponding views of different regions in the surveillance region, wherein as at least one person travels out of a first region and into a second region of the surveillance region, the at least one person travels out of the view of at least one camera and into the view of one or more other cameras; wherein the at least one camera of the plurality has a view of the first regions which corresponds to the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area at a first time in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event in the security area; wherein one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to capture biometric information for one or more persons in the corresponding views, at a second time, while the at least one subject person has traveled outside of the view of the at least one camera; a processing system; wherein the processing system is programmable to produce a subject dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person; and wherein the processing system is programmable to search for the at least one subject person by matching biometric information of one or more persons captured by the one or more of the other of the plurality of cameras with corresponding biometric information in the subject dossier. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A surveillance system comprising:
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a plurality of sensors disposed in a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras disposed in the surveillance region and having corresponding views of different regions in the surveillance region such that as at least one subject person travels out of a first region and into a second region of the surveillance region, the at least one subject person travels out of the view of at least one camera and into the view of one or more other cameras, wherein one or more of the plurality of cameras can be configured to automatically gather one or both of biometric information and temporal identifying information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the corresponding camera, in response to sensing of a potential security breach event in the vicinity of such camera; wherein one or more of the plurality of cameras can be configured to capture biometric information for one or more persons in the corresponding views, when the at least one subject person has traveled outside of the view of the corresponding camera; a processing system wherein the processing system is programmable to produce a subject dossier including one or both of biometric information or temporal identifying information corresponding to the at least one subject person; and wherein the processing system is programmable to search for the at least one subject person by matching one or both of biometric information or temporal identifying information of one or more persons captured by one or more cameras. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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