Apparatus for playing back recorded video images related to event, and method thereof

• US 9,420,239 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Oya, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Christensen, Scott B
• Application Number:
  US12/763,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20100271478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,310 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

An apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a video image, a generation unit configured to generate, when a first type of event in which a state of an object changes is detected from the video image, an index associating the first type and a second type of event related to the first type in the video image, and a playback unit configured to play back, when the first type is specified, a video image concerning the second type corresponding to the specified first type based on the index.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a recording unit configured to record a video image;

a detection unit configured to detect an object event in which a state of an object changes from the video image;

a generation unit configured to generate, when the object event is detected from the video image, event information associating the object event with an identifier of the object and a time when the object event occurred;

a display unit configured to display a frame of the video image with a time line on which a plurality of symbols indicating respective object events are arranged, wherein a symbol indicating each of the object events is arranged in a position corresponding to a time when each of the events occurred;

a specifying unit configured to specify an object in response to a selection of the object from one or more objects in the displayed frame by a user;

an identification unit configured to identify, when the object is specified by the specifying unit, an object event concerning the specified object based on the identifier of the specified object in the event information;

a display control unit configured to change a display form of a symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object on the time line, so that the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object can be distinguished from symbols indicating other object events; and

a playback unit configured to start, in response to a selection of the symbol of which the display form has been changed, a playback of the video image of an object event corresponding to the selected symbol.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit is configured to detect desertion or taking away of an object as the object event.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to change, when a symbol corresponding to an object event is selected from the time line, display forms of symbols indicating object events related to an object which is a subject of the object event corresponding to the selected symbol so as to be distinguishable from other object events on the time line.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to change a display form of an area including the specified object in the frame in accordance with the changed display form of the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object, so that a correspondence between the specified object and the identified object event can be distinguished.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the display control unit is configured to uniform the display form of the area including the specified object in the frame and the display form of the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the playback unit is configured to start, in response to the selection of the symbol of which the display form has been changed, the playback of the video image at a time when the object event corresponding to the selected symbol occurred.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to change a display form of a sequence of symbols each indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to determine the display form of the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object in accordance with an attribute of the object.

9. A method comprising:

recording a video image;

detecting an object of event in which a state of an object changes from the video image;

generating, when the object of event is detected from the video image, event information associating the object event with an identifier of the object and a time when the object event occurred;

displaying a frame of the video image with a time line on which a plurality of symbols indicating respective object events are arranged, wherein a symbol indicating each of the object events is arranged in a position corresponding to a time when each of the events occurred;

specifying an object in response to a selection of the object from one or more objects in the displayed frame by a user;

identifying, when the object is specified by the specifying, an object event concerning the specified object based on the identifier of the specified object in the event information;

changing a display form of a symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object on the time line, so that the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object can be distinguished from symbols indicating other object events; and

starting, in response to a selection of the symbol of which the display form has been changed, a playback of the video image of an object event corresponding to the selected symbol.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

detecting desertion or taking away of an object as the object event.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising changing, when a symbol corresponding to an object event is selected from the time line, display forms of symbols indicating object events related to an object which is a subject of the object event corresponding to the selected symbol so as to be distinguishable from other object events on the time line.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

recording a video image;

detecting an object of event in which a state of an object changes from the video image;

generating, when the object of event is detected from the video image, event information associating the object event with an identifier of the object and a time when the object event occurred;

displaying a frame of the video image with a time line on which a plurality of symbols indicating respective object events are arranged, wherein a symbol indicating each of the object events is arranged in a position corresponding to a time when each of the events occurred;

specifying an object in response to a selection of the object from one or more objects in the displayed frame by a user;

identifying, when the object is specified by the specifying, an object event concerning the specified object based on the identifier of the specified object in the event information;

changing a display form of a symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object on the time line, so that the symbol indicating the identified object event concerning the specified object can be distinguished from symbols indicating other object events; and

starting, in response to a selection of the symbol of which the display form has been changed, a playback of the video image of an object event corresponding to the selected symbol.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12, further comprising:

detecting desertion or taking away of an object as the object event; and

identifying an entry or exit of a person who has carried out the desertion or taking away as the human event related to the object event.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 12, further comprising changing, when a symbol corresponding to an object event is selected from the time line, display forms of symbols indicating object events related to an object which is a subject of the object event corresponding to the selected symbol so as to be distinguishable from other object events on the time line.