Surveillance server, method of processing data of surveillance server, and surveillance system

• US 9,584,767 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hanwha Vision Company Limited (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Young Joon, Kwon, Su Ho, Kang, Kyoung Don, Kim, Myung Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Gergiso, Techane
• Application Number:
  US14/341,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20150030155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0471 applying encryption by an intermediary, e.g. receiving clear information at the intermediary and encrypting the received information at the intermediary before forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/006 involving public key infrastructure [PKI] trust models network architecture or network communication protocol for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/30 Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A surveillance server connected to a camera through a network is provided, the camera acquiring an image of a surveillance area. The surveillance server includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire from the camera image data of the image that is encrypted; a mode selection unit configured to select a processing mode of the image data; and a decryption control unit configured to decrypt the image data in response to selection of a first mode.

Claims

1. A surveillance server connected to a camera through a network, the camera acquiring an image of a surveillance area, the surveillance server comprising at least one processor configured to implement:

a data acquisition unit which acquires from the camera image data of the image which is encrypted;

a mode selection unit which selects a processing mode of the image data according to a signal corresponding to a user input or a signal corresponding to image processing information included in the image data; and

a decryption control unit which decrypts the encrypted image data, in response to selection of a first mode for the processing mode by the mode selection unit, and

wherein the decryption control unit stores or transmits the encrypted image data without decryption, in response to selection of a second mode for the processing mode selected by the mode selection unit.

2. The surveillance server of claim 1, wherein, in response to selection of the second mode for the processing mode by the mode selection unit, the decryption control unit transmits the encrypted image data without decryption to a client that is connected to the surveillance server.

3. The surveillance server of claim 1, wherein the decryption control unit decrypts the encrypted image data by using a second key, and

wherein the second key is distinguished from a first key that is used for encryption of the image data, and the first key is used for authentication of the image data.

4. The surveillance server of claim 1, wherein the first mode is a mode of displaying the image on a display device, and, in response to the selection of the first mode, the decryption control unit further transmits the image data, which is decrypted, to the display device.

5. The surveillance server of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to implement an authentication unit which authenticates whether the image data is valid, and

wherein, if it is determined that the image data is authenticated to be valid, the mode selection unit selects the processing mode of the image data to determine whether to decrypt the encrypted image data.

6. The surveillance server of claim 5, wherein the authentication unit authenticates validity of the image data according to whether the image data transmitted by the camera and the image data received by the surveillance server match each other.

7. The surveillance server of claim 5, wherein the data acquisition unit acquires a first parameter of the image data from the camera, and

wherein the authentication unit generates a second parameter of the image data from the image data and authenticates the image data according to a result of comparison of the first parameter with the second parameter.

8. The surveillance server of claim 7, wherein the authentication unit generates the second parameter by using the same method as a method of generating the first parameter.

9. The surveillance server of claim 7, wherein the first parameter is generated based on packet information about image data acquired by the camera and the second parameter is generated based on packet information of the image data acquired by the data acquisition unit.

10. The surveillance server of claim 9, wherein the first parameter and the second parameter are generated based on the number of packets of the image data.

11. A method of processing data of a surveillance server that is connected to a camera through a network, the camera acquiring an image of a surveillance area, the method comprising:

acquiring encrypted image data of the image from the camera;

selecting a processing mode of the image data according to a signal corresponding to a user input or a signal corresponding to image processing information included in the image data;

selectively decrypting the encrypted image data, in response to selection of a first mode for the processing mode, or storing or transmitting the encrypted image data without decryption, in response to selection of a second mode for the processing mode by the mode selection unit.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first mode is a mode of displaying the image on a display device, and

wherein the method further comprises transmitting the image data, which is decrypted, to the display device in response to the selection of the first mode.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising, in response to the selection of the second mode for the processing mode, transmitting the encrypted image data without decryption to a client that is connected to the surveillance server.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising authenticating whether the image data is valid,

wherein, in the acquiring the image data, a first parameter of the image data is further acquired from the camera,

wherein, in the selecting the processing mode, if it is determined that the image data is authenticated to be valid, a mode of the image data is selected, and

wherein, in the authenticating the image data, a second parameter of the image data is generated from the image data and the image data is authenticated according to a result of comparison of the first parameter with the second parameter.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the decrypting comprises decrypting the encrypted image data by using a second key, and

wherein the second key is distinguished from a first key that is used for encryption of the image data, and the first key is used for authentication of the image data.

16. A surveillance system comprising:

a camera configured to acquire image data of a surveillance area and transmit the image data to a server by encrypting the image data;

the server connected to the camera through a network and configured to acquire the image data, which is encrypted, from the camera,

wherein the server comprises at least one processor configured to implement;

a mode selection unit which selects a processing mode of the image data according to a signal corresponding to a user input or a signal corresponding to image processing information included in the image data; and

a decryption control unit which decrypts the encrypted image data in response to selection of a first mode for the processing mode selected by the mode selection unit, and stores or transmits the encrypted image data without decryption in response to selection of a second mode for the processing mode selected by the mode selection unit.

17. The surveillance system of claim 16, wherein the first mode is a mode of displaying the image on a display device, and

wherein, in response to selection of the first mode for the processing mode selected by the mode selection unit, the decryption control unit transmits the image data, which is decrypted, to the display device.

18. The surveillance system of claim 16, in response to selection of the second mode for the processing mode by the mode selection unit, the decryption control unit transmits the encrypted image data without decryption to a client that is connected to the server.

19. The surveillance system of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to implement an authentication unit which authenticates whether the image data is valid,

wherein the server is further configured to acquire a first parameter of the image data from the camera, and

wherein, if it is determined that the image data is authenticated to be valid, the mode selection selects a mode of the image data to determine whether to decrypt the encrypted image data, and the authentication unit generates a second parameter of the image data from the image data and authenticates the image data according to a result of comparison of the first parameter with the second parameter.