Monitoring system, monitoring camera, and management device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
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Abstract
There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
Claims14
A monitoring system comprising:
- a plurality of monitoring cameras that capture images;
- and
- a management device that is connected to the monitoring cameras,
- wherein the management device transmits first feature information relevant to a first person to one or more first monitoring cameras,
- wherein each of the first monitoring cameras performs a first check with respect to a first image, which is captured by the first monitoring cameras, using the received first feature information, and transmits a first check result to the management device,
- wherein the management device transmits time information based on time, in which the first image including the first person is captured, to second monitoring cameras, which capture the first image relevant to the time information, among the first monitoring cameras based on the first check result,
- wherein each of the second monitoring cameras performs a second check with respect to a second image, which is captured by the second monitoring cameras, using the received time information, and transmits a second check result to the management device, and
- wherein the management device specifies a second person based on the second check result.
A monitoring camera, which is connected to a management device and captures an image, comprising:
- an image sensor;
- a processor;
- and
- a communication device,
- wherein the image sensor captures an image of a first person,
- wherein the processor detects a feature quantity of the first person from the image,
- wherein the communication device receives first feature information relevant to the first person from the management device,
- wherein the processor performs a first check of checking the first feature information and the feature quantity of the first person, and
- wherein the communication device transmits a first check result to the management device.
A management device, which is connected to monitoring cameras, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a communication device,
- wherein the communication device
- transmits first feature information relevant to a first person to one or more first monitoring cameras,
- receives a first check result using the first feature information from each of the first monitoring cameras,
- transmits time information based on time, in which a first image including the first person is captured, to second monitoring cameras, which capture the first image including the first person, among the first monitoring cameras based on the first check result,
- receives a second check result from the second monitoring cameras using the time information, and
- wherein the processor specifies a second person based on the second check result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.