# US 10,771,716 B2 · Control device, monitoring system, and monitoring camera control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,771,716 B2 - Document ID: US10771716B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/365,797 - Filed: 2019-03-27 - Published: 2019-10-03 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2018-03-29 - Assignees: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Applicants: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Inventors: Kosuke Taki; Yoichi Hiranuma; Fumiya Sakashita; Shoichi Sakaguchi; Shohei Fujiwara - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10771716B2 ## CPC - H04N 7/181: {for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources} - G01S 3/7864: {T.V. type tracking systems} - G06V 10/235: {based on user input or interaction} - G06V 20/52: Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) - G06V 40/166: {using acquisition arrangements} - H04N 23/60: Control of cameras or camera modules - H04N 23/611: where the recognised objects include parts of the human body - H04N 23/90: Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums - G06F 3/011: {Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00)} - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification} - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A monitoring system includes a plurality of cameras and a control device. The control device includes device storage, an output device, and an input device. The device storage stores therein an image captured by each camera of the plurality of cameras. The output device displays an image exhibiting a positional relationship of the plurality of cameras. The input device sets tracking information for tracking a specific tracking target in the captured images to one camera among the plurality of cameras. When an imaginary movement line is input on the image exhibiting the positional relationship of the cameras, the input device sets the tracking information to one or more cameras corresponding to the imaginary movement line among the plurality of cameras other than the one camera. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A control device for controlling a plurality of imaging devices, comprising: storage configured to store therein an image captured by each imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices; a display section configured to display an image exhibiting a positional relationship of the plurality of imaging devices; and an input section configured to receive input of an operation from a user, wherein the input section receives an operation through which one imaging device exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship is selected from the image, sets, to the selected one imaging device, tracking information for tracking a specific tracking target in an image captured by the one imaging device, and receives an operation through which an imaginary movement line is input on the image exhibiting the positional relationship, the imaginary movement line is a line input by the input section based on an instruction of the user, and includes a position touched by a finger of the user in the image exhibiting the positional relationship, movement of the finger, and a position at which the finger is removed from the image exhibiting the positional relationship, the display section displays the imaginary movement line received by the input section as superimposed on the image exhibiting the positional relationship, and the input section selects one or more imaging devices corresponding to the imaginary movement line from the plurality of imaging devices exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship and sets the tracking information to the selected one or more imaging devices other than the one imaging device from the plurality of imaging devices, determines, for each of the plurality of imaging devices, whether or not a distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than a prescribed distance based on the imaginary movement line and the image exhibiting the positional relationship, and selects the imaging device when the distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than the prescribed distance. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The control device according to claim 1, wherein the display section edits the image captured by each imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices into a single image. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The control device according to claim 2, wherein each of the captured images has a flag, and each of the imaging devices turns on the flag of a captured image which includes an image exhibiting the specific tracking target, and the display section acquires a plurality of the captured images in which the flag is on and edits the captured images in which the flag is on into the single image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The control device according to claim 1, wherein the tracking information includes a detection area covering an image exhibiting the specific tracking target. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The control device according to claim 1, wherein the display section displays a movement line of the specific tracking target. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The control device according to claim 1, wherein the display section displays an image capturable range of one or more of the imaging devices. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The control device according to claim 1, wherein the display section displays the image exhibiting the positional relationship of the plurality of imaging devices by displaying the plurality of imaging devices and a floor layout on which the plurality of imaging devices are located. ### Claim 8 A monitoring system comprising: a plurality of imaging devices; and a control device for controlling the plurality of imaging devices, wherein the control device includes: storage configured to store therein an image captured by each imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices; a display section configured to display an image exhibiting a positional relationship of the plurality of imaging devices; and an input section configured to receive input of an operation from a user, the input section receives an operation through which one imaging device exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship is selected from the image, sets, to the selected one imaging device, tracking information for tracking a specific tracking target in an image captured by the one imaging device, and receives an operation through which an imaginary movement line is input on the image exhibiting the positional relationship, the imaginary movement line is a line input by the input section based on an instruction of the user, and includes a position touched by a finger of the user in the image exhibiting the positional relationship, movement of the finger, and a position at which the finger is removed from the image exhibiting the positional relationship, the display section displays the imaginary movement line received by the input section as superimposed on the image exhibiting the positional relationship, and the input section selects one or more imaging devices corresponding to the imaginary movement line from the plurality of imaging devices exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship and sets the tracking information to the selected one or more imaging devices other than the one imaging device from the plurality of imaging devices, determines, for each of the plurality of imaging devices, whether or not a distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than a prescribed distance based on the imaginary movement line and the image exhibiting the positional relationship, and selects the imaging device when the distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than the prescribed distance. ### Claim 9 A monitoring camera control method for controlling, with a control device, a plurality of imaging devices, the method comprising: storing, with the control device, an image captured by each imaging device of the plurality of imaging devices; displaying, with the control device, an image exhibiting a positional relationship of the plurality of imaging devices; receiving, with the control device, input of an operation through which one imaging device exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship is selected from the image; setting, with the control device to the selected one imaging device, tracking information for tracking a specific tracking target in an image captured by the one imaging device; receiving, with the control device, an operation through which an imaginary movement line is input on the image exhibiting the positional relationship; displaying, with the control device, the imaginary movement line as superimposed on the image exhibiting the positional relationship; selecting, with the control device, one or more imaging devices corresponding to the imaginary movement line from the plurality of imaging devices exhibited by the image exhibiting the positional relationship and setting the tracking information to the selected one or more imaging devices other than the one imaging device from the plurality of imaging devices; determining, with the control device, for each of the plurality of imaging devices, whether or not a distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than a prescribed distance based on the imaginary movement line and the image exhibiting the positional relationship; and selecting, with the control device, the imaging device when the distance between the imaginary movement line and the imaging device is equal to or shorter than the prescribed distance, wherein the imaginary movement line is a line input based on an instruction of a user, and includes a position touched by a finger of the user in the image exhibiting the positional relationship, movement of the finger, and a position at which the finger is removed from the image exhibiting the positional relationship. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input section determines, for each of the plurality of imaging devices, whether or not the imaginary movement line intersects with an image capturable range of the imaging device based on the imaginary movement line, the image capturable range, and the image exhibiting the positional relationship, and selects the imaging device when the imaginary movement line intersects with the imaging range of the imaging device.