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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189046 | Computer-based communication systems and arrangements associated therewith for indicating user status A communication system for multiple users whereby an automatic indication of away status is prompted immediately upon a user's departure from the vicinity of a computer or other medium. In a preferred embodiment, this is accomplished, in an instant messaging environ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189045 | Surveillance camera A surveillance camera comprises a base mounted on a wall, an imaging lens mounted on the base via an imaging lens support member and a switchable mounting unit, and a rotation drive device driving the imaging lens so as to rotate in a panning direction. The switchab... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184158 | Curved mirror camera The present invention discloses a curved mirror camera including an opaque housing, a single-sided curved reflector, a light-absorption hood and a camera. The opaque housing contains an opening, the single-sided curved reflector is assembled with the opaque housing ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184157 | Generalized multi-sensor planning and systems A method is disclosed for the analysis of scenarios where there are dynamically occurring objects capable of occluding each others. Application of the method in vision systems is also disclosed. Methods for incorporating visibility constraints for occluding scenario... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174575 | Monitoring system The invention relates to a monitoring system equipped with low-power-consumption camera devices. A main monitor device (15) grasps whether each monitor device (12) makes a request for sending image signals. Each camera device (13) sends a pollin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174574 | Image pickup apparatus An optical apparatus includes a zoom lens unit, a pan/tilt unit configured to at least one of pan the zoom lens unit and tilt the zoom lens unit, and a center-shift information storage portion configured to store a shift amount of an optical axis for every zooming p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174573 | Monitoring camera A monitoring camera has a base, a camera module and a casing. The base has a parapet formed on the base. The parapet has a memory slot and at least one pair of guide slots formed oppositely on the parapet. Each guide slot has a notch extending toward the bottom of t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174571 | Apparatus for processing images, apparatus for processing reproduced images, method of processing images, and method of processing reproduced images Thumbnails are used, facilitating any operation on an object that changes from time to time as in a moving picture, thereby to prevent failure in capturing important objects. The present invention provides an apparatus for processing images that includes a moving bo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174572 | Intelligent camera selection and object tracking Methods and systems for creating video from multiple sources utilize intelligence to designate the most relevant sources, facilitating their adjacent display and/or catenation of their video streams. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164626 | Monitoring camera device The present invention provides a monitoring camera apparatus which can measure camera installation height easily with a simple configuration. The monitoring camera apparatus includes a distance detecting unit and direction detecting unit. The distance detecting unit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159533 | Surveillance camera capable of recording color or monochrome images based on time settings A surveillance camera has a sensing module, a micro-control unit (MCU) and a real-time clock (RTC) unit. The sensing module records original images. The MCU is connected to the sensing module and stores multiple time settings and a smart timer process. The MCU execu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159534 | Method for remote inspection of target in monitored space This invention addresses remote inspection of target in monitored space. A three dimensional (3D) microwave image of the space is obtained using at least two emitters. The data undergoes coherent processing to obtain maximum intensity of the objects in the area. Thi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154596 | Reduction in load of image transmission An image transmitting method is disclosed for reducing the load on a CPU of an image transmission apparatus. An image change monitoring unit provided in the image transmission apparatus monitors the latest image used to generate image data transmitted to an image re... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149278 | System and method for modeling movement of objects using probabilistic graphs obtained from surveillance data A method and system tracks models and predict object movement in an environment. Sequences of temporally and spatially adjacent events sensed by the set of sensors are linked to form a set of tracklets. Each tracklet has an associated starting and terminating locati... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139112 | Methods and apparatus related to improved surveillance A smart camera device incorporates a first processing path for video display processing and a second processing path for detection and/or tracking processing. A sensor device provides input signals including first size data units to both processing paths, at least s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139113 | Method and system for operating a camera assembly A method and a system for video camera assembly are provided. The video camera assembly includes at least one of a pan mechanism rotatable about a pan axis and a tilt mechanism rotatable about a tilt axis. The pan mechanism includes a pan motor and a pan position en... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125521 | Multiple image processing and synthesis using background image extraction A technique of efficiently extracting and synthesizing an object image from a plurality of images captured at different image magnifications. An image processing method of the present invention includes the steps of generating a first background image corresponding ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120655 | Interactive theatrical performance A theatrical performance for relaying data from at least one performer to at least one member of the audience, including a processor; at least one data collector positioned on the at least one performer and remotely connected to the processor; and at least one displ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120656 | Assembly module having a video transmission element This invention is to provide an assembly module comprising a board, a frame disposed on a surface of the board, and a circuit board disposed on another surface of the board, wherein the circuit board includes a power line and an image transmission line for directly ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106947 | Image recording and reproducing apparatus An image recording and reproducing apparatus includes a group management information file creation circuit for, in recording, grouping recorded images at predetermined time intervals and creating, for each group, a group management information file storing group man... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098282 | Privacy zone algorithm for ptz dome cameras The present invention advantageously provides a means by which the privacy zone on a PTZ camera can be maintained so that an object in the camera's sight is always masked or covered. An algorithm which remembers the defined privacy zones as an area in space marked b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098281 | Method and apparatus for providing a video session with images captured from web based cameras A method and apparatus for displaying image from web based camera(s) located in a residential home to be projected onto a television monitor are disclosed. For example, as part of a home security system, a web server capturing images of passageways leading to or ins... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081214 | Method of and system for mobile surveillance and event recording A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081216 | Lighting control system and method A lighting control system for controlling the lighting of a predetermined area is provided. According to one embodiment, the lighting control system comprises one or more light sources positioned in the predetermined area, the light source configured to include adju... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072491 | Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program An information processing system includes a sensor that obtains sensor data. The system also includes a feature extracting mechanism that extracts a feature of an object based on the sensor data obtained by the sensor. Further, the system includes an event determini... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8054330 | Apparatus and methods for establishing and managing a distributed, modular and extensible video surveillance system Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing and managing distributed video surveillance systems. Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention provide a well-organized structure for describing and implementing distributed video surveillance sys... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046330 | Image accumulation device and image accumulation method An image accumulation device is provided so as to include: an input unit that inputs, as input images, images of specific shot locations; an image database in which specific locations in a predetermined region, shot images relating to the specific locations, positio... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035686 | STB/DVR video surveillance There are provided a method, a system and machine-readable medium for managing surveillance video at a broadcast video terminal device. The method comprises detecting a security event associated with at least one surveillance video camera communicatively coupled to ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026944 | Method and apparatus for hosting a network camera with image degradation A method and apparatus for providing an improved Internet camera is described. The method of keeping a refreshed image from a camera on a user's system comprises sending the image to the user's system and refreshing the image periodically. The method further compris... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026945 | Directed attention digital video recordation The present invention describes systems and methods of incorporating detailed snapshots of targeted areas of interest into a video or digitized recording of the overall scene including metadata to link the snapshots to the time and location in the overall scene from... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022987 | Information-based self-organization of sensor nodes of a sensor network A sensor node detects a plurality of information-based events. The sensor node determines whether at least one other sensor node is an information neighbor of the sensor node based on at least a portion of the plurality of information-based events. The information n... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018489 | Surveillance system A surveillance device makes use of a fixed point in space such as a stabilized blimp, and a downward-looking high-resolution scanning camera. One or more line scan devices are arranged in a radial fashion on a rotating disk, together with associated lenses, so as to... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009193 | Unusual event detection via collaborative video mining Embodiments of the present invention describe a collaborative framework for mining of surveillance videos to detect abnormal events, which introduces a two-stage training process to alleviate the high false alarm problem. In the first stage, unsupervised clustering ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004561 | Methods and systems for networked camera control Methods and systems for providing fluid real-time camera control of at least one camera to at least one network user via a network including the internet. A control pad or area can be provided to camera users via an application or applet that can be calibrated to pr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999847 | Audio-video tip analysis, storage, and alerting system for safety, security, and business productivity An audio surveillance, storage, and alerting system, including the following components: One or more audio sensory devices capture audio data having attribute data representing importance of the audio sensory devices. One or more audio analytics devices process the ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999846 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and recording medium for programs therefor An image processing apparatus connected to a monitoring camera and a display for processing an image input from the monitoring camera includes an image storage storing an image input from the monitoring camera, a characteristic parameter storage storing a characteri... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7965313 | Airport security system An airport security system includes a scanner scanning and time stamping an article of identification of an individual passing into a secure terminal area. The system further includes security cameras generating respective video signals of overlapping zones of cover... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961215 | Smart task-driven video collection A multi-camera system that collects images and videos of moving objects in dynamic and crowded scenes, subject to task constraints is disclosed. The system constructs “task visibility intervals” comprising information about what can be sensed in future time inte... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956891 | Camera control apparatus and method, and camera control system A camera control system having a terminal device connected to a plurality of cameras via a network is provided. In response to an operation that exceeds a maximum control value (maximum control angle) of the PTZ of a camera that is the target of control, the termina... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956890 | Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera o... | 06/07/2011 |
