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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6035053 | Moving subject recognizing system for automotive vehicle A moving subject recognizing system for recognizing a subject, such as a pedestrian, moving toward a forward path of a vehicle to avoid a collision against the subject scans a field ahead the vehicle to detect a transverse velocity of a subject moving in ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6028626 | Abnormality detection and surveillance system A surveillance system having at least one primary video camera for translating real images of a zone into electronic video signals at a first level of resolution. The system includes means for sampling movements of an individual or individuals located wit... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6014167 | Tracking apparatus and tracking method The invention provides a tracking apparatus and a tracking method by which an imaging object can be set without any special manual operation by a user. An imaged image is supplied to an imaging object setting section via an imaging object processing secti... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6002326 | Automotive vehicle anti-theft and anti-vandalism and anti-carjacking system An automotive vehicle anti-theft anti-vandalism and anti-carjacking system utilizing both an audible alarm and visual monitor system for reducing the incidence of theft or vandalism of an automotive vehicle and an emergency alarm device in connection with... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5990938 | Showcase security system An apparatus and method for an improved security system employing a video camera and video recorder is disclosed. Recordation of the video signals from the video camera by the video recorder is controlled by activation of a remotely mounted switch that mo... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5970203 | Video signal recording apparatus In a video signal recording apparatus, a first video signal is compressed into a second video signal in response to a controllable quantization factor which determines a degree of the compression. The quantization factor is controlled to maintain a data r... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5936666 | Security sensor arrangement In one embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus which includes at least two sensors whose overlapping fields of view are matched by sectorization. Sensor signal output processing of a high resolution sensor and a low resolution sensor provi... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5926210 | Mobile, ground-based platform security system which transmits images that were taken prior to the generation of an input signal The present invention discloses a security system for monitoring a mobile, ground-based platform via image acquisition in the form of electrical pixel signals. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of cameras attached to the platform and arra... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5923363 | Apparatus for powering a television interphone monitor via a signal transmission line In an apparatus for powering a television interphone monitor for communication between entrances of a building and individual apartment of the building, power is fed to the television interphone monitor which is operated by a rechargeable battery, through... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5907352 | Door mountable security system A door mountable security system including a first fiber optic image conduit, a video camera having a lens visually coupled to one end of the fiber optic image conduit and a first video output; a miniature video recorder operable from a battery power sour... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5892856 | Method of presence detection using video input A method of detecting whether a user is in close proximity to an end point. A base video frame of the end point is captured when the user is not in close proximity to the end point. A current video frame of the end point is captured and compared to the ba... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5880775 | Method and apparatus for detecting changes in a video display A scene change monitor includes a camera (12) for monitoring a given scene. The camera (12) is operable to sequentially generate frames (18) of visual information, which frames are then divided up into pixels and the value of the pixels for each frame acc... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5822012 | Home automation apparatus using a digital television receiver A home automation apparatus using a digital television receiver for use in a building is provided. In particular, the apparatus contains a signal processor, a memory unit, a microprocessing unit, a display unit, a sensor input unit, an interface unit, and... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5815199 | Interphone with television An interphone with television includes a terminal device having a wide-angle image input camera, an image output circuit, and a master device for receiving an image signal from the image output circuit. The master device converts the image to a digital fo... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5809200 | Video signal recording apparatus In a video signal recording apparatus, a first video signal is compressed into a second video signal in response to a controllable quantization factor which determines a degree of the compression. The quantization factor is controlled to maintain a data r... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5798787 | Method and apparatus for detecting an approaching object within a monitoring zone A method and system for detecting the approaching of a target object into a monitoring zone wherein the target object is scheduled to enter the zone is provided. The method includes providing motion image data continuously taken as an image from the monit... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5717379 | Remote monitoring system A remote monitoring system for monitoring properties of persons to be protected includes at least one video pickup device (C) positioned at the property (1) to be protected. The video pickup device can either be continuously operable or activated via a da... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5671009 | CCTV system having improved detection function and detecting method suited for the system A closed circuit television (CCTV) system with an improved detection function and a detecting method wherein, a number of camera signals, generated by multiple monitoring cameras, are recorded on a single recording medium such as a magnetic tape, correspo... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5666157 | Abnormality detection and surveillance system A surveillance system having at least one primary video camera for translating real images of a zone into electronic video signals at a first level of resolution. The system includes means for sampling movements of an individual or individuals located wit... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5635905 | System for detecting the presence of an observer A system is disclosed for detecting the presence of a human who may be observing an artifact which is within his or her line of sight or field of view. The system includes a laser with a lens at the output thereof and which is triggered rapidly in order t... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5602585 | Method and system for camera with motion detection A motion detection camera system which may be used as a security camera includes an active pixel imaging system operable in a video and differential mode connected to a mode activation circuit that controls the imaging system mode. In the video mode, the ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5583796 | Video security backup system A video security surveillance system comprises a backup video switching control unit connected in tandem with a primary video switching control unit. A backup controller monitors operation of the primary switching control unit and automatically effects tr... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5581297 | Low power video security monitoring system If motion occurs in an area viewed by a lens (14) of a video camera (12), a video security monitoring system (10) establishes a communication link with a video monitoring facility and begins transmitting compressed video images of the area. The system (10... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5512942 | Anomaly surveillance device An image signal which is output by a video camera is segregated into image data S2 and synchronous data S3 by the synchronizing segregation circuit 1. At each frame, image data S2 is sequentially stored in the image data multilayer memory 8 which consists... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5402167 | Protective surveillance system A system for observing and recording the activity between a practitioner such as a psychiatrist or doctor and a patient includes zoom lens video camera and a microphone having output signals mixed and fed through a delay network to a high capacity tape re... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5327233 | Movable security camera apparatus A movable security camera apparatus for providing visual security with minimal human effort, error and equipment expense, includes a MICOM, a path input section, a sensing section, a sensor detecting section, a camera video tape recording section, and a m... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5291563 | Method and apparatus for detection of target object with improved robustness An object detection system and a state transition detection system capable of realizing the improved robustness, general applicability, and customizability. In the system, features for the target image are calculated, where the features including at least... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5283644 | Crime prevention monitor system A crime prevention monitor system which, when detecting an intruder entering into a monitor region, automatically judges quickly and reliably whether or not the intruder is an illegally intruding person on the side of its concentrator center and if so, th... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5202759 | Surveillance system A remote surveillance system includes one or more surveyed stations and a common control station. Each surveyed station includes structure for communication with the control station via telephone line. Each surveyed station further includes video equipmen... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5133935 | Test area for prevention of specimen tampering in substance abuse testing The invention provides a method and a test area to prevent tampering in the collection of specimens for substance abuse testing from a subject utilizing a specimen collection container. More particularly, the present invention prevents the substitution of... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5111291 | Auto freeze frame display for intrusion monitoring system A video monitoring system responds to an intrusion alarm by automatically presenting still video images of the zone of the alarm at or about the time of the alarm. The operator can control magnification and contrast to enhance the displayed image. In one ... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5091780 | A trainable security system emthod for the same A security system comprised of a device for monitoring an area under surveillance. The monitoring device produces images of the area. The security system is also comprised of a device for processing the images to determine whether the area is in a desired... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4772875 | Intrusion detection system An intrusion detector has a first sensor for monitoring a first condition and a second sensor for monitoring a second condition in a space to be protected against intrusion; a change in the condition sensed by the first sensor in a target area causes the ... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4614968 | Contrast smoke detector A system for detection of smoke by measuring changes in the contrast of a multi-contrast target disposed remotely from a photoelectric sensor. The obscuration of the detection path causes a reduction in the contrast of the sensed target, and a change of p... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4455550 | Detection circuit for a video intrusion monitoring apparatus An intrusion monitoring apparatus wherein horizontal and vertical sync signals separated from the video signal generated by a monitor television camera are used to produce window pulses having respective timings and lengths corresponding to discrete spots... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4249207 | Perimeter surveillance system Disclosed is an automatic video intrusion detection system. The system monitors a given area such as between two parallel fences. The image of the given area is divided into an array of cells each approximately equal in size to the image of a man. The vid... | 02/03/1981 |
