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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110291831 | TIME BASED VISUAL REVIEW OF MULTI-POLAR INCIDENTS A system and method for time based review of multi-polar incidents is provided. The method includes selecting at least one past alarm incident, and populating a floor plan map with representations of the past alarm incident and a set of alarms that were active during th... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292213 | DOOR MOUNTABLE CAMERA SURVEILLANCE DEVICE AND METHOD One embodiment pertains to a surveillance device having at least two video cameras contained within a housing of the surveillance device. The device is configured to couple to at least one side of a door. One of the two cameras is positioned on one side of the surveilla... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285851 | INTRUDER SITUATION AWARENESS SYSTEM An approach for detecting, tracking and capturing images of an intruder in a building. The intruder's bearing and speed, and structural information about the building may provide at least a partial basis for calculating potential paths of the intruder. Cameras along the... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110249121 | PERIMETER SECURITY SYSTEM USING ACTIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES REFLECTED BY A SET OF MIRRORS ONTO A VIDEO CAMERA A perimeter security system includes a video camera (1), an element (7) for transmitting or retransmitting a radiation lighting a scene observed by the camera (1), and a unit (4) for image analysis and processing and for driving the camera (<... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110216203 | SIP CONVERTER When communications are performed by connecting a non-SIP information terminal device in which SIP is not supported to a SIP converter connected to a communication line via a line terminating device, the SIP converter performs establishment and disconnection of a SIP se... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110157364 | INTELLECTUAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to an intellectual surveillance system and a monitoring method thereof. The intellectual surveillance system comprises a camera module and a terminal computer module, wherein the camera module is capable of monitoring and reacting various s... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149078 | WIRELESS ANTI-THEFT SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND SERVICE A wireless anti-theft security communications service uses a wireless security device comprising a video camera, a force/wave sensor (e.g., accelerometer, motion detector, acoustic sensor, tilt sensor), a microphone, and a wireless communication component. Various level... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTI-LEVEL INTRUSION EVENTS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF A system and a method for detecting multi-level intrusion events are provided. The system includes an area recognition module and an area classification module. The area recognition module performs a geometric topology operation to recognize a plurality of areas in a gr... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141283 | SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MEASUREMENT OF ACOUSTIC FIELD VARIATION A security system and a method of determining whether there is an intrusion are provided. A correlation between sound signals obtained from a sound source generating device and a sound-field variation measuring device is used to measure a acoustic field in a certain spa... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110133930 | FILTERING VIDEO EVENTS IN A SECURED AREA USING LOOSE COUPLING WITHIN A SECURITY SYSTEM A method and apparatus for detecting events in a security system. The method includes the steps of providing a secured area having a plurality of physical sensors that detect events associated with the secured area and a plurality of video devices that each collect vide... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110115634 | BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM AND BEHAVIOR MONITORING METHOD A storage element stores identification information identifying to-be-monitored objects (TBMO) and prohibited behavior conditions indicating behaviors respectively prohibited to the TBMO in an area. Entry monitoring elements monitor as specific TBMO, TBMO which enter th... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING VIDEO WITH GEOSPATIALLY REFERENCED DATA A system that annotates video with geospatially referenced data on a display is provided. A video client is connected to a source of video data, the video client being capable of overlaying a video feed from the source of video data with graphics or text data not inhere... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110090341 | INTRUDING OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF An intruding object detection system including a first drive unit for moving an image pickup unit in a pan direction, a second drive unit for moving the pickup unit in a tilt direction, a third drive unit for moving the pickup unit to zoom in and out, and a control unit... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090340 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus comprises a detection unit that detects an area having a predetermined feature from image data, a selection unit that selects, based on information of the detected area, a transfer method in which a total transfer amount of data is smallest... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110069171 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VIDEO MONITORING A method for autonomous monitoring includes the following steps. A plurality of video signals of a region to be monitored is collected by a video signal collecting module. A current image and a previous image of the region to be monitored are analyzed by an image proces... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100283857 | EVENT BASED DYNAMIC CHANGE IN VIDEO QUALITY PARAMETERS OF NETWORK CAMERAS A method and apparatus are provided for operating a security system. The method includes the steps of providing a network video camera coupled to the security system through a network, detecting a predetermined activity and increasing a video quality parameter of video ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100225764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCCUPANCY DETECTION A detection system includes a plurality of sensors including an entry sensor having a field of view oriented to detect object entry with respect to an entry portion of an occupancy volume, and an exit sensor having a field of view oriented to detect object exit with res... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100201820 | INTRUSION ALARM VIDEO-PROCESSING DEVICE Binarization is performed using a threshold image obtained by multiplying a variation in each pixel value of an input image with a coefficient. Although the variation is time-averaged based on an update coefficient for each pixel, the update coefficient is switched depe... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100077421 | Security System and Method A security system and method for detecting the presence of one or more persons in a location, by: directing a light source in the direction of the location; detecting reflections of the light source from the location by a light detector in order to form an image represe... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100045792 | DEVICE FOR CAPTURING THE SILHOUETTE OF AN INDIVIDUAL A device for capturing a silhouette consisting of a transparent wall, a vision device to capture at least one image of the wall and a processing unit connected to the vision device which analyses the captured images and detects the silhouette of the individual passing b... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100033572 | Ticket-holder security checkpoint system for deterring terrorist attacks A security checkpoint system and apparatus that provides security officers entrusted with protecting our nations' critical infrastructure or other high risk locations, a means of isolating and tracking suspicious persons who enter large public events or public transport... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100026808 | Surveillance System for Terminals A surveillance system for terminals for controlling generation of false or wrong information by displaying an inquiry message to a user. The surveillance system includes a terminal having an individual information acquirement unit acquiring private information on a user... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090315994 | SECURITY CAMERA WITH MAGNETIC ADJUSTOR A security camera with magnetic adjustor has a camera body and a front cap assembly. The camera body has a case, an optoelectronical module and at least one magnetic adjustor. The optoelectronical module is coaxially mounted in the case and has a camera lens. The at lea... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090303327 | Security System This invention provides a security system that includes: a surveillance camera unit including a video camera and a paint bullet firing apparatus for firing a paint bullet from a firing port arranged along the direction of the axis of the line of sight of the video camer... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090295923 | DIRECTIONAL SURVEILLANCE CAMERA WITH RING OF DIRECTIONAL DETECTORS A motion detector consisting of multiple motion detector elements each having a preset field of view. An alarm signal generated by a motion detector element when movement is detected is sent to a detector controller which converts the alarm signal to a control signal fo... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090284600 | Remote-control door viewer surveillance system A remote-control door viewer surveillance system includes a door viewer holding a lens assembly in the door panel of a house, an image sensor for picking up image signals through the lens assembly, an image processing circuit for processing image signals received from t... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090278934 | System and method for predicting patient falls A patient fall prediction system receives video image frames from a surveillance camera positioned in a patient's room and analyses the video image frames for movement that may be a precursor to a patient fall. In set up phase, the viewpoint of the camera is directed at... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090251543 | MONITORING CAMERA DEVICE In a camera 12, a sound input unit inputs a monitoring sound obtained from a monitoring place, and an image generation unit generates a monitoring image obtained from the monitoring place. A sound anomaly detection unit then detects a sound anomaly in the monitor... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090128328 | Automatic monitoring system with a security system The invention is related to a security system of an automatic monitoring system that is used to guard the automatic monitoring system from theft. The security system uses a sensing device to detect the movement or vibration of the monitoring system and produces a sense ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090091446 | SECURITY SYSTEM USING LASER RANGE FINDER AND METHOD OF DETECTING INTRUDER USING LASER RANGE FINDER A security system using a laser range finder that can precisely determine an existence and a location of an intruder, and a method of detecting the intruder using the laser range finder are provided. The security system using a laser range finder, the security system in... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090033745 | Method and apparatus for video frame sequence-based object tracking An apparatus and method for the analysis of a sequence of captured images covering a scene for detecting and tracking of moving and static objects (86) and for matching (88) the patterns of object behavior in the captured images to object behavior in prede... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090002492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVENT DETECTION USING COMPOSITE DEFINITIONS FOR CAMERA SYSTEMS A system and method for monitoring events includes defining alert events based on primitive event types in an environment monitored by monitoring devices. Alert parameters are set for each alert event, and alert events are combined to create a composite alert event base... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080316315 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALERTING BY WEIGHING DATA BASED ON THE SOURCE, TIME RECEIVED, AND FREQUENCY RECEIVED Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring, alerting, and acting, including the following steps. Input data is received from one or more sensory devices. One or more data weights are determined for the input data based on a weight corresponding to a source of the in... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080246844 | Emergency and Alarm Lamp with a Video Camera An emergency and alarm lamp with a video camera includes a lamp head, a lamp housing, and a lamp casing. The lamp head is a metal head with a general screw interface or a bayonet interface that can be fit on a lamp holder of a general filament lamp. The lamp housing is ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080122930 | Image processor, intruder monitoring apparatus and intruder monitoring method An intruder monitoring apparatus has at least a feature of correcting characteristic quantities by which an object to be monitored is specified, on the basis reference characteristic, when any change occurs in conditions of the video devices and environments. A further ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080117299 | Communication and monitoring system An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a per... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080111885 | Robust tactical unattended ground sensor networking An unattended sensor is provided for use in a surveillance system. The sensor is generally comprised of: a detector that generates an electrical signal in response to a physical stimulus proximate to the sensor; a signal processor adapted to receive the electrical signa... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080111684 | Security System and Method for Use of Same A security system and method for use of the same are disclosed that provide for remote surveillance. In one embodiment, a property's entry point such as a doorway is equipped with a video camera, an external microphone, and an external speaker. An individual, such as an... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080111884 | Multipurpose unattended ground sensor node with relay capability An unattended sensor is provided for use in a surveillance system. The sensor is generally comprised of: a detector; a signal processor; a radio transceiver; a power source; and a controller which configures the sensor in either a sensor mode or a relay mode. When confi... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080079810 | Barrier operator system and method with obstruction detection At least one of an area to protect and an area to ignore are marked using a visual indicator. The area to protect and the area to ignore are in proximity to a moveable barrier operator system. Visual inputs from a camera representative of the visual indicator are receiv... | 04/03/2008 |
