# US 2018/0025188 A1 · Methods, computer program products, and systems for providing automated video tracking via radio frequency identification > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0025188 A1 - Document ID: US20180025188A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/707,849 - Filed: 2017-09-18 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Earliest claimed: 2008-10-21 - Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Inventors: Barrett Kreiner; Jonathan L. Reeves - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180025188A1 ## CPC - G06K 7/1097: {Optical sensing of electronic memory record carriers, such as interrogation of RFIDs with an additional optical interface} - G01S 13/82: wherein continuous-type signals are transmitted - G01S 13/867: {Combination of radar systems with cameras} - G06K 7/10079: {the collision being resolved in the spatial domain, e.g. temporary shields for blindfolding the interrogator in specific directions} - G06K 7/10366: {the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications} - G06K 17/00: Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations - G11B 27/02: Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers - G11B 27/10: Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel - H04N 5/76: Television signal recording - H04Q 2213/13095: PIN / Access code, authentication - G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04Q: SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W) ## Abstract Methods, computer program products and systems for providing video tracking. The method includes receiving a first signal from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. A location of the RFID tag is determined in response to the first signal. An image that includes the location of the RFID tag is recorded. The location of the RFID tag is marked on the image, resulting in a marked image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for providing a marked image, the method comprising: recording, by an image recorder, an image that includes a location of a radio frequency identification tag; and marking, by the image recorder, the location of the radio frequency identification tag on the image, resulting in the marked image, wherein the marking is performed by overlaying the location of the radio frequency identification tag identified on the image, wherein the image recorder recognizes a first signal emitted from the radio frequency identification tag, wherein the first signal comprises an ultraviolet signal and the marking is performed by the image recorder based on the first signal, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is attached to an object and the first signal includes data about the object, the data comprising a value of the object, wherein the first signal is emitted by the radio frequency identification tag when the radio frequency identification tag receives a radio frequency signal from a radio frequency identification emitter. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the data about the object further comprises a size of the object. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the marking further includes overlaying an image of the object on the image at the location, wherein the overlaying at the location of the radio frequency identification tag is responsive to the data about the object. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining prior to the recording if a field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag; and positioning the image recorder so that the field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag in response to determining that the field of view of the image recorder does not include the location of the radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, comprising: focusing the image recorder on the object. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving an additional signal from an additional radio frequency identification tag, the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag making up a constellation; and determining a location of the additional radio frequency identification tag, wherein the image that is recorded further includes the location of the additional radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising: determining prior to the recording if a field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag; and positioning the image recorder so that the field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag in response to determining that the field of view of the image recorder does not include the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the image recorder is a video camera. ### Claim 9 A system for providing a marked image, the system comprising: an image recorder for recording an image that includes a location of a radio frequency identification tag and for marking the location of the radio frequency identification tag on the image, resulting in the marked image, wherein the marking is performed by overlaying the location of the radio frequency identification tag identified on the image, wherein the marking is performed in response to receiving a signal from the radio frequency identification tag, wherein the signal is an ultraviolet signal, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is attached to an object and the signal includes data about the object, the data comprising a value of the object, wherein the signal is emitted by the radio frequency identification tag when the radio frequency identification tag receives a radio frequency signal from a radio frequency identification emitter. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is a passive tag and the system further comprises: the radio frequency identification emitter to activate the radio frequency identification tag, the activating causing the radio frequency identification tag to transmit the signal to the image recorder. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the data about the object further comprises a size of the object. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the marking further includes overlaying an image of the object on the image at the location, wherein the overlaying at the location of the radio frequency identification tag is responsive to the data about the object. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, further comprising: a positioning mechanism for determining prior to the recording if a field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag; and positioning the image recorder so that the field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag in response to determining that the field of view of the image recorder does not include the location of the radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is attached to the object, for causing the image recorder to focus on the object. ### Claim 15 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, further comprising: the image recorder for receiving an additional signal from an additional radio frequency identification tag, the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag making up a constellation; and the image recorder for determining a location of the additional radio frequency identification tag, wherein the image that is recorded further includes the location of the additional radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, further comprising: the image recorder for determining prior to the recording if a field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag, and for positioning the image recorder so that the field of view of the image recorder includes the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag in response to determining that the field of view of the image recorder does not include the location of the radio frequency identification tag and the additional radio frequency identification tag. ### Claim 17 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the image recorder is a video camera. ### Claim 18 A tangible computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor of an image recorder, cause the processor to perform operations for providing a marked image, the operations comprising: recording an image that includes a location of a radio frequency identification tag; and marking the location of the radio frequency identification tag on the image, resulting in the marked image, wherein the marking is performed by overlaying the location of the radio frequency identification tag identified on the image, wherein the image is recorded by the image recorder that recognizes a first signal emitted from the radio frequency identification tag, wherein the first signal comprises an ultraviolet signal and the marking is performed by the image recorder based on the first signal, wherein the radio frequency identification tag is attached to an object and the first signal includes data about the object, the data comprising a value of the object, wherein the first signal is emitted by the radio frequency identification tag when the radio frequency identification tag receives a radio frequency signal from a radio frequency identification emitter. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the data about the object further comprises a size of the object. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The tangible computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the marking further includes overlaying an image of the object on the image at the location, wherein the overlaying at the location of the radio frequency identification tag is responsive to the data about the object.