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US 10,855,728 B2Granted
Systems and methods for directly accessing video data streams and data between devices in a video surveillance system
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsDeepak Sundar Meganathan, Avijit Saha, Venugopala Reddy Janga
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Abstract
Systems and methods for directly accessing video data streams and data between devices in a video surveillance system can include a first camera of a mobile device capturing an image of a field of view of a video data stream displayed on a second device, the mobile device matching the field of view with a source of the video data stream, and responsive to matching the field of view with the source, the mobile device retrieving the video data stream directly from the source.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- a first camera of a mobile device capturing an image of a field of view of each of a plurality of video data streams displayed on a monitoring station of a surveillance system, wherein the plurality of the video data streams are provided by a plurality of corresponding video cameras of the surveillance system, and wherein the field of view of each of the plurality of video data streams corresponds to the field of view of the corresponding video camera, and wherein the field of view of each of the plurality of video cameras is pre-defined and unique;
- storing the captured images of the field of views of each of the plurality of video data streams on the mobile device, such that each captured image of the field of view functions as a camera marker for the corresponding video camera in order to subsequently identify the corresponding video camera from its field of view;
- subsequently capturing an image of a field of view of a selected one of the plurality of video data streams displayed on the monitoring station;
- the mobile device matching the field of view of the subsequently captured image with one of the field of views of the captured images stored on the mobile device to identify the video camera that corresponds to the field of view of the selected one of the plurality of video data streams;
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- responsive to identifying the video camera that corresponds to the field of view of the selected one of the plurality of video data streams displayed on the monitoring station, the mobile device displaying the video data stream that corresponds to the identified video camera on the mobile device.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a transceiver device;
- a first camera;
- a user interface device;
- a programmable processor;
- and
- executable control software stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium,
- wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software are configured to use the first camera to capture an image of a field of view of each of a plurality of video data streams displayed on a monitoring station of a surveillance system, wherein each of the plurality of video data streams is provided by a corresponding video camera of the surveillance system,
- wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software are configured to save a field of view for each of the corresponding video cameras, such that each field of view functions as a camera marker for identifying the corresponding video camera;
- wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software are configured to subsequently capture an image of a field of view of a selected one of the plurality of video data streams displayed on the monitoring station, and match the field of view of the subsequently captured image with a corresponding video camera using the camera markers;
- and
- wherein, responsive to matching the field of view of the subsequently captured image with the corresponding video camera, the programmable processor and the executable control software are configured to display the video data stream from the corresponding video camera on the mobile device.
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A method of directly accessing a video data stream that is displayed on a monitoring station and displaying the video data stream on a mobile device, the method comprising:
- creating a static database of predefined camera markers by using a camera of the mobile device to capture a field of view of each of a plurality of video data streams displayed on the monitoring station, each of the plurality of fields of view stored as a camera marker for that particular field of view that identifies a particular video data stream of the plurality of video data streams;
- the mobile device subsequently capturing an image of a field of view of one of the plurality of video data streams displayed on the monitoring station;
- matching the field of view of the subsequently captured image with a source of the video data stream using the static database of camera markers;
- and
- responsive to matching the field of view of the subsequently captured image with the source of the video data stream, displaying the video data stream on the mobile device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.