Automated diagnoses and prediction in a physical security surveillance system

• US 7,158,022 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2004
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth T. Fallon
• Original Assignee: Kenneth T. Fallon
• Inventors: Fallon, Kenneth T.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US10/978,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20060092019A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 340/505, 340/506, 340/286.01, 340/286.02, 340/286.05, 340/286.06, 340/286.11, 340/435, 340/436, 340/572.1, 701/29, 701/33, 701/35
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• 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: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 31/00 Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data

Abstract

An invention that automatically reports and collects security surveillance problems, device diagnostics and device state information from cameras and security detection equipment. Devices may be attached to a network or attached through a device controller on a network but are not limited to that topology. Each detected occurrence is recorded for analysis and reporting to network administration centers. The device or the controller may also keep track of trend information and report that over time. The administration center produces warning alerts and notifications. These alerts and notifications may not be related to a single problem or intrusion but may be based on trend, predictive or diagnostic information using predictive algorithms. Special charts, graphs, histogram and other reports are produced by the system to aid in proactive diagnosis, problem prediction and behavior patterns. The system produces predictive information based on trend and periodic information to alert operators of potential upcoming problems and behavior.

Claims

1. A security surveillance system provides predictive security information by uniquely collecting information from security surveillance devices comprising cameras and detection equipment attached to a network, attached to device controller units on a network, or attached via electronic means and automatically report problems and status to administrative computers which save information be analyzed to determine the reason for the frequency of problems, the severity of the problems and potential future problems with the devices and the analysis will present trends and predictive behavior to include hardware failure, feature failure, network failure, operation error, human error, equipment misuse, intermittent error, externally activated error, repeated intrusions and security trend information.

2. A security surveillance system can display and report predictive behavior by the use of special predictive algorithms to create graphs, charts and reports by using uniquely collected surveillance security information from cameras or detection equipment which predicatively analyzes problems, failures, warnings, notifications, trends from selected or requesting users attached to a computer network or electronically from user display devices including desktop computers, laptop computers, mobile vehicle terminals, hand held computers, cell phones, personal digital assistants, and remote devices where after gathering information the invention runs special analysis software at administrative centers against this gathered data to identify failure trends, behavior and identifies problem areas to recommend corrective action through special reports to assist in prediction and correction of identified problems and predict behavioral or suspicious activity.