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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7633521 | Apparatus and method improving marker identification within a motion capture system A system, apparatus and method are described for improving marker identification within a motion capture system. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a plurality of cameras configurable for a motion capture session, each of t... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7433588 | Camera control apparatus, camera control method, program and storage medium Traveling photographing of a camera is controlled in accordance with a plurality of photographing parameters and priority orders of the plurality of photographing parameters, respective stored in a storage unit, a motion of an object photographed with the camera is ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428318 | Method for capturing, measuring and analyzing motion A system and method for capturing, measuring and analyzing motion in real-time is provided which operates with or without markers. A threshold image is based on a background image and is created to minimize noise during the motion capture. A captured image is compar... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7399127 | Autonomous operation control system A monitoring apparatus including a loudspeaker, a photographic camera that photographs image information on a photographic subject, a proximity sensor, and a monitoring control unit is disposed at a first remote location. An autonomous operation controller including... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394918 | Image recognition method and apparatus An image recognition apparatus has an image capture section for capturing a range image, an image deformation section for deforming the range image captured by the image capture section, and a recognition section for recognizing the presence/absence of three-dimensi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7382249 | Security motion sensor and video recording system A combined alarm and surveillance system integrates an existing alarm system (12) with an existing surveillance system (14) such that functions unique to each system are combined in a complementary manner. The existing alarm and surveillance systems ar... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382900 | Method of determining a three-dimensional velocity field in a volume A method of determining a three-dimensional velocity field in a volume having particles, the particles within the volume being excited to radiate by illuminating the volume, including two or more cameras simultaneously capturing images of the observation volume at t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376250 | Apparatus, method and program for moving object detection The present invention detects a moving object by generating the distance information of the moving object, detecting the object motion, determining the object distance, detecting the object image area and the object contour from the video image that includes the obj... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7356166 | Method and computer-readable medium for detecting motion and filtering noise This invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for detecting motion and filtering noise from images. The method includes (a) dividing an incoming image into several blocks; (b) comparing the blocks to the corresponding blocks of a referred image and s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342484 | Exterior vehicle mirror assembly with sensors An exterior mirror sensor system for commercial vehicles comprising an exterior mirror, a sensor for monitoring an exterior mirror zone, and an indicator for indicating objects detected in the exterior mirror zone. The sensor may be a distance sensor, a motion senso... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340078 | Multi-sensing devices cooperative recognition system Disclosed here is an information processing system capable of recognizing actions and circumstances of a user with respect to both space and time as a “situation” to recognize the user's request using a plurality of sensing nodes that work cooperatively with eac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339607 | Security camera and monitor system activated by motion sensor and body heat sensor for homes or offices A security camera and monitor system activated by motion sensor and body heat sensor for homes or offices that utilizes home VCR, or other household A/V recordation equipment, as a recording means and recordation only occurs when motion is detected, achieving great ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337463 | Displaying heterogeneous video Heterogeneous video may be independently encoded in a processor-based system and transmitted for display on a display device. In the display device, the independent video streams may be de-packetized for display on the same display at different frame rates. Thus, ea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336169 | Method and real time emergency response surveillance system A real time emergency response surveillance system, a method, and a computer readable medium for storing a computer program for responding to an emergency situation are disclosed. The real time emergency response surveillance system includes one or more surveillance... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333129 | Fire detection system A fire detection system for an enclosed area comprises: at least one infrared (IR) imager for generating infrared images of at least a portion of the enclosed area, for determining from the images that a fire is perceived present in the enclosed area, and for genera... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330109 | System and method for capturing and rerouting an individual local security system A method and system used by a central monitoring station to monitor and control a local installed security system. The method includes programming into a receiver an identifier for a local security system to be captured and controlled. Programming a control instruct... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324133 | Method and apparatus for controlled camera useability A programmable digital camera requiring a programming password to be entered to access the camera's programmability. The camera further includes programming so as to allow the camera to be operated only for a specified time interval, after which the camera becomes i... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319479 | System and method for multi-camera linking and analysis The present invention is directed to a system and method for tracking objects, such as customers in a retail environment. The invention is divided into two distinct software subsystems, the Customer Tracking system and the Track Analysis system. The Customer Trackin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310111 | Video monitoring and security system A computer especially suitable for use as a video-based security system includes video inputs, a processor and a network connection. The video inputs are each configured to receive an electronic video signal from a video camera. The processor operates on a digital r... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310110 | Method, device and computer program product for demultiplexing of video images A method for demultiplexing digital video data which originates from multiple sources in which the multiplexed images are not indexed nor is there identification information provided to differentiate sources. The sources are generally cameras which may be stationary... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308147 | Image processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, camera system, computer program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes an image compression device which performs a discrete wavelet transform of pixel values for each rectangular portion to produce wavelet coefficients, and performs a hierarchical compression coding of the wavelet coefficients fo... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308113 | Method of detecting and measuring a moving object and apparatus therefor, and a recording medium for recording a program for detecting and measuring a moving object There are provided a plurality of units for detecting a moving object in an image from changes of an image structure in a monitor area defined in a linear strip on a single straight line consisting of a base line and its partitions, and a height of a moving object i... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304662 | Video surveillance system and method A video surveillance system includes clients coupled to servers using a network. The clients generate data, video, and optionally audio. Using the network, clients communicate in real-time the data, video, and optionally audio to the servers for monitoring, analyzin... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301557 | Composite camera system, zoom camera image display control method, zoom camera control method, control program, and computer readable recording medium A composite camera system includes a control section for performing positional control and magnification ratio control of at least one zoom camera ratio for omnidirectional image data centered on a prescribed portion thereof, the omnidirectional image data being obt... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295228 | Security camera systems A security camera system is provided. Several video cameras operate in conjunction with an image display monitor, a user control and camera selector means whereby a target of interest may be followed. Each two cameras providing adjacent areas of coverage are operabl... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292723 | System for image analysis in a network that is structured with multiple layers and differentially weighted neurons Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating the usage of an online workforce to remotely monitor security-sensitive sites and report potential security breaches. In some embodiments, cameras are configured to monitor critical civilian infrastruc... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286157 | Computerized method and apparatus for determining field-of-view relationships among multiple image sensors A computerized method of image analysis that includes receiving first image data for a plurality of first video frames representing a first scene. Each first video frame is composed of a plurality of image regions, and a first object is present in an image region of... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286704 | Imaging fire detector An imaging fire detector is used to detect a fire from a recorded image sequence. Either a video camera or an infrared camera is used as an imaging device. Characterizing parameters of a fire are either analyzed individually or in combination. In order to detect cha... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283687 | Imaging for virtual cameras Imaging for virtual cameras implemented through a Web site sometimes referred to as an “electronic photo shop.” Embodiments include receiving in an electronic photo shop, from a virtual camera coupled for data communications through a network to the electronic p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280673 | System and method for searching for changes in surveillance video Systems and methods for determining when a change has occurred in an area-of-interest included in an image region are disclosed. The system and methods may perform a specially modified background subtraction method. The systems and methods may initialize a backgroun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280696 | Video detection/verification system Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images, extracting features from the enhanced images, and combining the features... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277122 | Image surveillance system processing user's voice request to provide access authority level of each client in the system Information identifying an operator remotely controlling a camera can be obtained. By using voice as means for reporting the information, it is possible to achieve reporting that is ideal for a user interface. Specifically, a client (116) is connected to a ca... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262791 | Communication apparatus and method, and storage medium There is the possibility that the operator misunderstands as if an abnormality has occurred in an apparatus, depending on the state of reception of an image changing in accordance with situation. This problem is solved by providing a reception unit for receiving ima... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260241 | Image surveillance apparatus, image surveillance method, and image surveillance processing program An image surveillance apparatus includes: an imaging section including a convex mirror having a shape of a body of rotation, the imaging section obtaining an image of an omniazimuthal region and generating image data of the omniazimuthal region; a surveillance regio... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256818 | Detecting fire using cameras Detecting a fire, such as a fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of frames of video information, determining an energy indicator for each of a subset of the plurality of frames, and detecting the presence of fire in response to the energy in... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253732 | Home intrusion confrontation avoidance system A system is described that enables the user to deal with an intrusion into their home without having to personally confront the intruder. Given the night-time nature of many intruder events, a display and control unit is disclosed that is suitable for residing on a ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250853 | Surveillance system A surveillance system is provided. The system includes at least one target detection sensor, a plurality of adjustable identification sensors and a system controller. The syste controller is coupled to the at least one target detection sensor and the plurality of ad... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248286 | Apparatus and method for controlling a camera using a video compression algorithm A method for controlling a camera using an image compression algorithm. A motion region and a motionless region are determined with respect to an input image based on a motion vector of a macro block which is for the generation of compressed data from the input imag... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245315 | Distinguishing between fire and non-fire conditions using cameras Detecting fire and non-fire conditions includes receiving a plurality of frames of video information, determining an energy indicator for each of a subset of the plurality of frames, detecting a fire condition in response to the energy indicator for each of the subs... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242423 | Linking zones for object tracking and camera handoff Linked zones define the temporal and spatial relationships among multiple zones of a surveillance area, and are used to model an object's disappearance from one zone, for potential reappearance at another zone. One or more zones are defined within each camera's fiel... | 07/10/2007 |