System and method to provide an adaptive camera network

• US 20070177023A1
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Kujawa, Gregory, Lee, King, Weiss, David, Beuhler, Allyson
• Application Number:
  US11/344,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20070177023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.300
• 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: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

A system and method for providing an adaptive camera network is provided. The invention discloses a camera network comprising a plurality of cameras, wherein each camera in the network comprises a plurality of applications that include a first application for performing a primary function and a second application for changing the primary function and a trigger based on an event, the trigger activating the second application in at least a portion of the plurality of cameras.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a camera network comprising a plurality of cameras, wherein each camera in the camera network comprises a plurality of applications that include a first application for performing a primary function and a second application for changing the primary function; and

a trigger based on an event, the trigger activating the second application in at least a portion of the plurality of cameras.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger is a first camera in the network detecting the event.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the first camera detects a predetermined license plate and the detection activates the second application for searching for the predetermined license plate.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger is a user input into the camera network.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the primary function is a license plate recognition function based on a first set of parameters, and the second application changes the first set of parameters to a second set of parameters.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second application changes the primary function to a secondary function that is different from the primary function.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the second application resides on each camera, and the plurality of cameras communicate via a wireless protocol.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the wireless protocol is an 802.xx protocol.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the second application resides on each camera and, the plurality of cameras communicate via Internet.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the second application resides on each camera, and the plurality of cameras communicate via Ethernet.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the second application resides as software on a server and the second application is uploaded to each camera via an 802.xx protocol.

12. A method comprising the steps of:

executing a first application in a first camera comprising a plurality of cameras in a camera network, the first application for causing the first camera to perform a primary function;

receiving a trigger based on an event; and

responsive to the trigger, activating a second application in the first camera for causing the first camera to change the primary function.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the trigger is a second camera in the network detecting the event.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second camera detects a predetermined license plate and the detection activates the second application in the first camera for searching for the predetermined license plate.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the primary function is a face recognition function based on a first set of parameters, and the second application changes the first set of parameters to a second set of parameters.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the primary function of the first camera is a surveillance function, and the second application causes the first camera to change the primary function to a secondary function that is different from the primary function.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the trigger is a user input into the camera network.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the user input comprises a set of parameters, the second application being activated in the first camera for causing the first camera to change the primary function on detecting at least one parameter from the set of parameters.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the second application resides on each camera, and the plurality of cameras communicate via at least one of a wireless protocol, Internet and Ethernet.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the second application resides as software on a server and the second application is uploaded to each camera via an 802.xx protocol.