Relevant image detection in a camera, recorder, or video streaming device
First Claim
1. A video monitoring system comprising:
- a video capture element that is configured to provide a plurality of video images, anda corresponding image detector that is configured to;
receive the video images, anddetermine a relevancy of each image by filtering each image based on one or more image characteristics of the image; and
a remote video processing system that receives the plurality of images and the relevancy of each image from the corresponding image detector, the remote video processing system is configured to process the plurality of images based on the determined relevancy of each image and to dynamically reprogram or reconfigure the corresponding image detector to identify a distinguishing feature by further filtering an object of interest detected by the remote video processing system.
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Abstract
The filtering tasks that are conventionally applied in a video monitoring application, to distinguish images that may be relevant to the application, are distributed to the image source, or near-source devices. Source devices, such as cameras and playback devices, and near-source devices, such as video concentrators and streaming devices, are configured to include video processing tools that can be used to pre-filter the image data to identify frames or segments of frames that include image information that is likely to be relevant to the receiving video monitoring application. In this manner, the receiving processor need not spend time and resources processing images that are pre-determined to be irrelevant to the receiving application.
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47 Claims
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1. A video monitoring system comprising:
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a video capture element that is configured to provide a plurality of video images, and a corresponding image detector that is configured to; receive the video images, and determine a relevancy of each image by filtering each image based on one or more image characteristics of the image; and a remote video processing system that receives the plurality of images and the relevancy of each image from the corresponding image detector, the remote video processing system is configured to process the plurality of images based on the determined relevancy of each image and to dynamically reprogram or reconfigure the corresponding image detector to identify a distinguishing feature by further filtering an object of interest detected by the remote video processing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A video streaming system that includes:
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a receiver that is configured to receive video images from one or more video sources, an encoder that is configured to transmit the video images to a receiving system that includes a remote video monitoring application, and a relevant image detector that is configured to; receive the video images, and determine a relevancy of each image by filtering each image based on one or more image characteristics of the image, based on one or more characteristics associated with target objects of the video monitoring application; and the remote video monitoring application that receives the plurality of images and the relevancy of each image from the relevant image detector, the remote video monitoring application is configured to process the plurality of images based on the relevancy of each image and to dynamically reprogram or reconfigure the relevant image detector to identify a distinguishing feature by further filtering of target objects detected by the remote video monitoring application. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A method including:
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receiving a plurality of images from a video capture element; filtering each of the plurality of images based on one or more image characteristics of the image; identifying irrelevant images from the plurality of images based on the filtering; identifying a relevancy of each of the plurality of images based on the identification of irrelevant images; processing a plurality of images to identify a relevancy of each image based on characteristics associated with target objects of a video monitoring application, communicating the plurality of images and the relevancy of each image to a remote video processing system that is configured to process the images of the plurality of images based on the relevancy of each image; and the remote video processing system dynamically reprogramming or reconfiguring the relevant image detector to identify a distinguishing feature by further filtering an object of interest detected by the remote video processing system. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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