Mobile terminal security systems

• US 9,852,515 B1
• Filed: 05/04/2016
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ONCAM Global, Inc. (Oncam Global Group AG)
• Original Assignee: ONCAM Global, Inc. (Oncam Global Group AG)
• Inventors: Pineau, Richard, Pineau, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahi, Shan
• Application Number:
  US15/146,107
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• Field of Search: 348150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24 Classification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30232 Surveillance
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30241 Trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/292 Multi-camera tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19608 Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19641 Multiple cameras having overlapping views on a single scene
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Systems that can track an object as it moves across the field of view of the security device, integrate transaction data with the object information, and can identify events that trigger an alert and methods for using the systems.

Claims

1. A method for operating a security system in an environment including mobile point-of-sale (POS) components, the method comprising:

acquiring and recording, using a server, an image of an object from one camera of a number of security cameras, each camera from the number of security cameras having position information and calibrated to identify other cameras from the number of security cameras in the vicinity of said each camera, calibration including field of view relations;

providing, using one or more processors, the object with an identifier if the object meets predetermined criteria, the identifier provided to the object being a characteristic of the object;

wherein said identifier provides a label for the object;

said label being used in tracking the object from said one camera to said another camera, said label and said object constituting a labeled object;

linking, using the one or more processors, the object with transaction data from a mobile POS component and location data for the mobile POS component;

tracking, using the one or more processors, the object from said one camera to another camera in the vicinity of said one camera as the object moves;

providing, using the one or more processors, video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object to the server, the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object being stored at a database;

utilizing the server to determine whether an event requiring an alert has occurred; and

utilizing the server to manage alerts;

wherein the utilizing the server to manage alerts comprises;

determining a type of alert for the alert using stored logic methods;

merging an identifying ID with the alert type;

determining a location of the alert; and

transmitting, using a transmitter and a preselected transmission method, the merged ID and alert type and the location to a predetermined site;

wherein the server includes one or more other processors and one or more non-transitory computer usable medium that has computer readable code embodied therein, which, when executed by the one or more other processors, causes the one or more processors to receive the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object, store the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object in the database, and determine, using the logic methods, whether an event requiring an alert has occurred and manage alerts.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the predetermined criteria comprises completing a transaction at the mobile POS component.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile POS component receives location data from a location providing system, wherein location data for said mobile POS component is also linked to the object.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein a field of view (FOV) of each one camera from the number of cameras overlaps the fields of view of at least one other security camera from the number of security cameras, the field of view of said one camera overlapping the field of view of said another camera, and wherein tracking of the labeled object is handed from said one camera to said another camera when the labeled object moves into the field of view of said another camera.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the stored logic methods comprise:

receiving information on location and time spent at the location as the object is dragged from said one camera to said another camera;

receiving the transaction data and the location data linked to the object; and

receiving a review of items at exit.

6. A system comprising:

a number of security cameras, each camera from the number of security cameras having position information and calibrated to identify other cameras from the number of security cameras in the vicinity of said each camera, calibration including field of view relations, an image of an object being acquired and recorded by one security camera from the number of security cameras;

a server, the server being operatively connected to a network;

one or more processors;

one or more non-transitory computer usable media having computer readable code embodied therein, the computer readable code, when executed in the one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to;

receive the image of the object;

provide the object with an identifier if the object meets predetermined criteria, the identifier provided to the object being a characteristic of the object;

wherein said identifier provides a label for the object, said label being used in tracking the object from said one camera to said another camera, said label and said object constituting a labeled object;

link the object with transaction data from a mobile POS component and location data for the mobile POS component;

track the object from said one camera to another camera in the vicinity of said one camera as the object moves; and

provide video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object to the server;

a database, said database having information for logic methods;

wherein the server comprises;

one or more other processors; and

one or more other non-transitory computer usable media having other computer readable code embodied therein, the other computer readable code, when executed in the one or more other processors, causing the one or more other processors to;

receive the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object;

store the video data for the object and the transaction data link to the object in the database;

determine, using the logic methods, whether an event requiring an alert has occurred; and

manage alerts;

wherein, in managing alerts, said other computer readable code, when executed in the one or more other processors, causes the one or more other processors to;

determine a type of alert for an alert using the logic methods;

merge an identifying ID with the alert type;

determine a location of the alert; and

transmit, using a transmitter and a preselected transmission method, the merged ID and alert type and the location to a predetermined site.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the predetermined criteria comprises completing a transaction at the mobile POS component.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein mobile POS components receive location data from a location providing system, wherein location data for said mobile POS component is also linked to the object, and wherein said location data is also received by the server.

9. The system of claim 6 wherein the predetermined criteria comprises having performed a transaction with the mobile POS component.

10. The system of claim 6 wherein a field of view (FOV) of each one camera from the number of security cameras overlaps the fields of view of at least one other camera from the number of security cameras, the field of view of said one camera overlapping the field of view of said another camera, and wherein tracking of the labeled object is handed from said one camera to said another camera when the labeled object moves into the field of view of said another camera.

11. The system of claim 6 wherein the stored logic methods comprise:

receiving information on location and time spent at the location as the object is dragged from said one camera to said another camera;

receiving the transaction data the location data linked to the object; and

receiving a review of items at exit.

12. The system of claim 6 wherein said one or more other processors are said one or more processors, and wherein said one or more other non-transitory computer usable media are said one or more computer usable media.