Ambient presentation of surveillance data

• US 8,704,893 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2007
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Generac Power Systems Incorporated (Generac Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Senior, Andrew William
• Primary Examiner(s): Dailey, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US11/622,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20080170120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,658 Days
• Field of Search: 348/159, 348/154
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A system and method for presentation of surveillance data includes a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors. A second environment includes one or more information presentation devices configured to convey an event or state occurring in the first environment by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the event or state.

Claims

1. A system for presentation of surveillance data, comprising:

one or more sensors to acquire data;

a processing unit to extract information from the data to provide given events, filter the given events according to user criteria, and simulate filtered given events in accordance with the information; and

a plurality of information presentation devices that present simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship from a point of view of an environment of a monitoring operator, the plurality of information presentation devices being employed at different times to present the simulations such that an apparent origin of the simulations conveys the information to the operator for the filtered given events as though the filtered given events were acquired from a location of the operator.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the information is perceivable by the operator other than by foveated vision.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of information presentation devices include a wall screen, wherein the wall screen displays an icon representing an object being tracked and the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the spatial relationship includes the icon displayed against the background.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of information presentation devices include a plurality of sound producing devices, wherein the plurality of sound producing devices cooperate to provide the spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound is generated conveys the information to the operator for the given events.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein sound from the plurality of sound producing devices is produced such that an apparent sound origin conveys information derived from the data.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the simulations in the spatial relationship simulate at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

7. A method for presentation of surveillance data, comprising:

acquiring data from one or more sensors;

extracting information from the data to provide given events;

filtering the given events according to user criteria;

simulating filtered given events in accordance with the information; and

using a plurality of information presentation devices, presenting simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship from a point of view of an environment of a monitoring operator, the plurality of information presentation devices being employed at different times to present the simulations such that an apparent origin of the simulations conveys the information to the operator for the filtered given events as though the filtered given events were acquired from a location of the operator.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the plurality of information presentation devices include a wall screen, and the method further comprising representing an object being tracked as an icon on the wall screen displays, and the wall screen includes a background image representing a view of a monitored area and the spatial relationship includes the icon displayed against the background.

9. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the plurality of information presentation devices include a plurality of sound producing devices, and the method further comprises cooperating between the plurality of sound producing devices to provide the spatial relationship, such that a location from which sound is generated conveys the information to the operator for the given events including producing sound from the plurality of sound producing devices such that an apparent sound origin conveys information derived from the data.

10. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the simulations in the spatial relationship simulate at least one of speed, type, appearance, and state of an object.

11. A computer program product for presentation of surveillance data comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:

acquiring data from one or more sensors;

extracting information from the data to provide given events;

filtering the given events according to user criteria;

simulating filtered given events in accordance with the information; and

using a plurality of information presentation devices, presenting simulations in accordance with the information in a spatial relationship from a point of view of an environment of a monitoring operator, the plurality of information presentation devices being employed at different times to present the simulations such that an apparent origin of the simulations conveys the information to the operator for the filtered given events as though the filtered given events were acquired from a location of the operator.