Smart surveillance system for swimming pools
AssigneePool Knight, LLC
InventorsRamy R. Gali, Phillip E. Matar, David C. May
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Abstract
A swimming pool monitoring system including an imaging sensor for detecting the presence of an object within a defined perimeter of the swimming pool and a computer system operatively coupled to the imaging sensor with a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing the computer system to execute processing to determine when an object is moving within a field of view of the imaging sensor once detected by the imaging sensor, to determine an angle of the object relative to the imaging sensor and to determine a range of the object relative to the imaging device to include a determination of a size of object for providing an alarm when the object approaches within a predetermined distance of the pool edge.
Claims16
A swimming pool monitoring system comprising:
- an imaging sensor suite for detecting the presence of an object within a defined perimeter of the swimming pool wherein the imaging sensor suite comprises at least one infrared imaging sensor and at least one red, green, blue (RGB) imaging sensor;
- at least one local ambient environment condition sensor to sense a quantity of ambient light in an environment of the swimming pool being monitored by the imaging sensor suite to determine at least one of:
- a mode for the at least one infrared imaging sensor to operate and whether to use the at least one RGB imaging sensor;
- a computer system operatively coupled to the imaging sensor suite with a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing the computer system to execute processing to determine when an object is moving within a field of view of the imaging sensor suite once detected by the imaging sensor suite, to determine an angle of the object relative to the imaging sensor suite and to determine a range of the object relative to the imaging sensor suite to include a determination of a size of the object for providing an alarm when the object approaches within a predetermined distance of an edge of the swimming pool;
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- a plurality of sensor systems comprising at least an olfactory sensor coupled to the computer system, wherein the computer system further comprises a data storage device including a database of olfactory signatures associated with authorized objects for comparison to olfactory signatures detected by the olfactory sensor, the computer system providing an alarm in response to unauthorized signatures.
A swimming pool monitoring system comprising:
- an imaging sensor suite, with at least one infrared imaging sensor and at least one red, green, blue (RGB) imaging sensor, with a known distance to a base surface;
- at least one local ambient environment condition sensor to sense a quantity of ambient light in an environment of the swimming pool being monitored by the imaging sensor suite to determine at least one of:
- a mode for the at least one infrared imaging sensor to operate and whether to use the at least one RGB imaging sensor;
- a computer system with a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing the computer system to execute processes to receive image frames from the imaging sensor suite, to detect an object within a field of view of the imaging sensor suite when comparing image frames at a horizon of each image frame to a floor of each image frame, to determine a range of the object from the imaging sensor suite, and to determine a width and height of the object with right triangle trigonometric equations;
- an alarm system in communication with the computer system to sound at least one of an audible, visual, and tactile alarm emitting from at least one of the computer system and a remote device when determined that the object is entering into a predetermined perimeter area around the swimming pool relative to the imaging sensor suite;
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- a plurality of sensor systems comprising at least an olfactory sensor coupled to the computer system, wherein the computer system further comprises a data storage device including a database of olfactory signatures associated with authorized objects for comparison to olfactory signatures detected by the olfactory sensor, the computer system or the remote device providing an alarm in response to unauthorized signatures.
A computerized method to monitor a swimming pool for a moving object, the computerized method comprises a computer system comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing the computer system to execute processes to image an area of interest with a stationary imaging sensor suite wherein to image the area is determined by information from a sensor which is used to select a type of imaging sensor of the imaging sensor suite to use, wherein the imaging sensor suite comprises at least one infrared imaging sensor and at least one red, green, blue (RGB) imaging sensor;
- detect a moving object within the field of view of the imaging sensor suite;
- and determine a range of the object relative to the imaging sensor suite utilizing an angle of the object from the imaging sensor suite and a position of the imaging sensor suite relative to a base, wherein a plurality of sensor systems comprising at least an olfactory sensor is coupled to the computer system, wherein the computer system further comprises a data storage device including a database of olfactory signatures associated with authorized objects for comparison to olfactory signatures detected by the olfactory sensor, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing the computer system to execute processes to provide an alarm in response to unauthorized signatures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.