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Selective object detection

  • US 9,449,510 B2
  • Filed: 10/16/2015
  • Issued: 09/20/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of monitoring whether an object of interest is passing through an area within a field of view of a scene observed by a video camera, the method comprising:

  • receiving video data representing the field of view of the scene observed by the video camera;

    using video analytics to track the object of interest represented in the video data;

    configuring a detection zone within the area, the detection zone including an entrance side and an exit side positioned opposite to each other and thereby defining opposite sides of the detection zone; and

    signaling an occurrence of an event only when the tracked object of interest is continually present in the detection zone during a period beginning when the tracked object of interest enters the detection zone on the entrance side and ending when the tracked object of interest leaves the detection zone from the exit side and not signaling the occurrence of the event if the tracked object of interest entered or exited the detection zone in another manner.

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