System for processing visual information and method of visual surveillance

• US 20060139452A1
• Filed: 11/28/2003
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: VSC International BV
• Original Assignee: VSC International BV
• Inventors: Van Deijzen, Wilhelmus Petrus Arnoldus
• Application Number:
  US10/536,553
• Publication Number:
  US 20060139452A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19615 wherein said pattern is defined by the user
• 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 13/19691 Signalling events for better perception by user, e.g. indicating alarms by making display brighter, adding text, creating a sound
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for processing visual information, comprising: a number of cameras for recording visual information, a control room in communication with the cameras and having means for displaying recorded visual information, and control means for influencing the information displayed in the control room. The invention also relates to a method for visual surveillance.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A system for processing visual information, comprising:

a plurality of cameras for recording visual information,

a control room in communication with the cameras and having means for displaying recorded visual information, and

control means for influencing the information display in the control room, wherein the system is also provided with storage means for storing the operations performed with the control means.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the storage means are adapted to store the operations performed with the control means in combination with at least a part of the visual information displayed as a result of the operations performed with the control means.

18. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the control room is also provided with communication means and the storage means are adapted to store the operations performed with the communication means.

19. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the system is also provided with input means for supplying to the storage means an identification of an operator of the control means.

20. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the system is also provided with a data processing unit with which statistical information is generated from the operations performed with the control means.

21. The system as claimed in claim 20, wherein the system is also provided with second storage means adapted to store the statistical information generated by means of the data processing unit.

22. The system as claimed in claim 20, wherein the data processing unit connects to a control module with which the information displayed in the control room is transmitted.

23. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the system is also provided with detection means for observing behaviour of an operator of the system.

24. The system as claimed in claim 23, wherein the detection means connect to the storage means for storing the operations performed with the control means, which storage means are also adapted to store the information generated with the detection means.

25. A method of visual surveillance, comprising the steps of:

A) recording visual information by means of a plurality of cameras,

B) feeding the recorded information to a control room,

C) selecting by an operator for observation purposes of a part of the available information from the recorded information fed to the control room, and

D) storing the information selected by the operator.

26. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the information selected by the operator as according to processing step (D) is stored in relation to the selection behaviour applied for this purpose by the operator.

27. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein statistical information is generated from the selection behaviour.

28. The method as claimed in claim 27, wherein the statistical information is used to actively influence the operator.

29. The method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the control room for processing information recorded by the system can also be supplied with personal identification data.

30. The method as claimed in claim 29, wherein the personal identification data are generated by linking visual information to another information source.