US 2003/0164764 A1 · Method and apparatus to select the best video frame to transmit to a remote station for CCTV based residential security monitoring

Abstract

A security monitoring system including: an alarm system having detectors for detection of an alarm in a structure; at least one camera for capturing image data inside and/or outside the structure; a processor for selecting a subset of the image data upon the occurrence of the alarm based on a predetermined criteria; and a modem for transmitting the subset of image data to a remote location. The processor ranks each video frame from the image data according to how well each video frame meets the predetermined criteria and the modem transmits a predetermined number of video frames having the best rank to the remote location.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A security monitoring system comprising:

an alarm system having means for detection of an alarm in a structure;
at least one camera for capturing image data inside and/or outside the structure;
a processor for selecting a subset of the image data upon the occurrence of the alarm based on a set of predetermined criteria;
and
transmission means for transmitting the subset of image data to a remote location.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/139,198Filed 6 May 2002

Priority

6 Dec 2000

Published

4 Sep 2003

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G08B 13/19602
Using television cameras: image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction
G06V 40/161
Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions: detection; Localisation; Normalisation
G08B 13/19604
Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction: involving reference image or background adaptation with time to…
G08B 13/19669
Details related to the storage of video surveillance data: event triggers storage or change of storage policy

Method and apparatus to select the best video frame to transmit to a remote station for CCTV based residential security monitoring

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Method and apparatus to select the best video frame to transmit to a remote station for CCTV based residential security monitoring

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Abstract

Claims21