Object tracking and alerts
AssigneeSensormatic Electronics Corporation
InventorChristopher Buehler
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Abstract
An integrated surveillance system combining video surveillance and data from other sensor-based security networks is used to identify activities that may require attention.
Claims63
A system for generating alerts based on events in an environment, the system comprising:
- a plurality of cameras for producing video signals representing at least a portion of a environment;
- a video-processing module for analyzing the video signals to identify objects within the environment;
- a data-input module for receiving non-video data from at least one sensor-based monitoring system, the data representing one or more events relating to at least one of the identified objects;
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- an alert module for generating alerts based on at least one of the events.
A method of monitoring activity within an environment, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of image signals representing at least a portion of the environment;
- identifying an object within the image signals;
- receiving non-video data representing an event occurring in the environment;
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- generating an alert based on the identified object and the event.
A surveillance system comprising:
- a video surveillance subsystem comprising plurality of cameras each having a field of view, each field of view comprising a plurality of camera sub-regions;
- a radio-frequency identification subsystem comprising a plurality of stations capable of detecting radio-frequency identification tags within an operational radius;
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- an association module in communication with the video surveillance subsystem and the radio-frequency identification subsystem for associating one or more of the camera sub-regions with one or more of the operational radii of the radio-frequency stations.
A method of monitoring activity within an environment, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of image signals generated by a plurality of cameras each having a field of view comprising a plurality of sub-regions;
- receiving data generated by a plurality of radio-frequency stations, the data being based on interaction with a plurality of radio-frequency tags associated with objects within the environment;
- associating one or more of the camera sub-regions with one or more of operational radii of the stations;
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- tracking, independent of calibration, a plurality of objects within the environment as the objects move between fields of view of the cameras and the operational radii of the stations.
An article of manufacture having computer-readable program portions embodied thereon for monitoring activity within an environment, the article comprising computer-readable instructions for:
- receiving a plurality of image signals representing at least a portion of the environment;
- identifying an object within the image signals;
- receiving non-video data representing an event occurring in the environment;
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- generating an alert based on the identified object and the event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.