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US 12,764,256 B2Granted
Video surveillance system
AssigneeMilestone Systems A/S
InventorsOleksii Zatvornytskyi, Peter Posselt Vergmann
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Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to video surveillance systems and optionally computer-implemented video management methods for video surveillance systems. A video management system may be configured to display search results of a plurality of video streams as respective thumbnails on a geo-map at respective positions of the search results within a surveillance area.
Claims16
A video management system comprising:
- a graphical user interface configured to present a plurality of video streams and a geo-map of a surveillance area;
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- a processing unit configured to:
- receive a plurality of video streams from a plurality of video cameras in the surveillance area via a data communication interface;
- receive metadata streams via the data communication interface;
- search the plurality of video streams and respective metadata streams in accordance with one or more search criteria to identify at least one of a target object, a target activity and a target incident in the surveillance area;
- display all search results of the plurality of video streams by displaying respective thumbnails in the graphical user interface, wherein each thumbnail comprises a frame of a video stream corresponding to a search result, wherein each thumbnail is displayed on a geo-map at respective positions of each search result, wherein the position of each search result is based on a position of the video camera associated with the respective video stream corresponding to the search result;
- apply at least one supplementary search criterion, automatically or under user control, to the search results of the plurality of video streams to identify a subset of search results matching the least one supplementary search criterion;
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- add visually distinguishing attributes to the respective thumbnails of the geo-map representing the subset of search results matching the least one supplementary search criterion, wherein each thumbnail of the subset of search results on the geo-map is visually distinguished from the remaining thumbnails of the search results on the geo-map, and
- wherein thumbnails corresponding to search results that do not match the at least one supplementary search criterion remains displayed on the geo-map without removal such that the thumbnails representing the subset of search results are visually distinguished in the context of all thumbnails correspond to the search results of the one or more search criteria.
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A computer-implemented video management method for a video management system, comprising steps:
- a) receive, at the video management system, a plurality of video streams and respective metadata streams supplied by, or associated with, respective ones of a plurality of video cameras;
- b) retrieve a geo-map of a surveillance area of the video surveillance system;
- c) search the plurality of video streams and respective metadata streams in accordance with one or more search criteria;
- d) identify at least one of a target object, a target activity and a target incident in the surveillance area in response to the search;
- e) display all search results of the plurality of video streams by displaying respective thumbnails via a graphical user interface, wherein each thumbnail comprises a frame of a video stream corresponding to a search result;
- f) indicate positions of all the search results by the respective thumbnails on the geo-map, wherein the position of each thumbnail is displayed on the geo-map at respective positions of each search result, wherein the position of each search result is based on a position of the video camera associated with the respective video stream corresponding to the search result;
- g) apply at least one supplementary search criterion, automatically or under user control, to the search results of the plurality of video streams to identify a subset of search results matching the least one supplementary search criterion;
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- h) add visually distinguishing attributes to the respective thumbnails of the geo-map representing the subset of search results matching the least one supplementary search criterion wherein each thumbnail of the subset of search results on the geo-map is visually distinguished from the remaining thumbnails of the search results on the geo-map, and
- wherein thumbnails corresponding to search results that do not match the at least one supplementary search criterion remain displayed on the geo-map without removal, such that the thumbnails representing the subset of search results are visually distinguished in the context of all thumbnails corresponding to the search results of the one or more search criteria.
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A video management system comprising:
- a user screen or display comprising a graphical user interface configured to present the plurality of video streams and a geo-map of a surveillance area;
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- a processing unit configured to:
- a) receive a plurality of video streams from a plurality of video cameras in the surveillance area via a data communication interface;
- b) receive metadata streams via the data interface, the metadata streams being from position detecting devices associated with the plurality of video cameras via a data;
- c) search the plurality of video streams and respective metadata streams in accordance with one or more search criteria to identify at least one of a target object, a target activity and a target incident in the surveillance area;
- d) display all search results of the plurality of video streams by displaying respective thumbnails on the user screen or display via the graphical user interface, wherein each thumbnail comprises a frame of a video stream corresponding to a search result, the position of each search result is based on a position of the video camera associated with the respective video stream corresponding to the search result, wherein each thumbnail is displayed on a geo-map at respective positions of the search results;
- e) determine a selection of one or more of the search results through a user interaction;
- f) determine at least one supplementary search criterion based on the one or more selected search results;
- g) search the plurality of video streams and respective metadata streams in accordance with the at least one determined supplementary search criterion;
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- h) update the user screen or display based on the search results from step g) by adding a visually distinguishing attribute to the thumbnails of the geo-map representing the search results from step g) matching the least one determined supplementary search criterion, wherein each thumbnail of the search results from step g) on the geo-map is visually distinguished from each of the remaining thumbnails from search performed in step c) on the geo-map, and
- wherein thumbnails corresponding to search results from search performed in step c) that do not match the at least one determined supplementary search criterion remain displayed on the geo-map without removal, such that the thumbnails representing the search results from step g) are visually distinguished in the context of all thumbnails corresponding to the search results from search performed in step c).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.