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US 2024/0267491 A1Published application
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;
- and
- 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 search results of the plurality of video streams by respective thumbnails in the graphical user interface, wherein each thumbnail comprises a frame of a video stream corresponding to a search result, wherein the thumbnails are displayed on a geo-map at respective positions of the search results, 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;
- and
- 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.
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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 search results of the plurality of video streams by 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 the search results by the respective thumbnails on the geo-map, 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.
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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 search results of the plurality of video streams by 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 the thumbnails are 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).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.