# US 7,609,856 B2 · Smoke detection method based on video processing > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,609,856 B2 - Document ID: US7609856B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/938,786 - Filed: 2007-11-13 - Published: 2009-05-14 - Granted: 2009-10-27 - Earliest claimed: 2007-11-13 - Assignees: Huper Laboratories Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Chao-Ho Chen; Yen-Hui Yin; Cheng-Liang Kao - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7609856B2 ## CPC - G06V 20/52: Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) - G08B 17/12: Actuation by presence of radiation or particles, e.g. of infrared radiation or of ions - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS ## Abstract The static and dynamic characteristics of smoke are developed for extracting smoke pixels of an image and effective smoke detection. In static characteristic, a chromaticity-based analysis is employed to extract grayish pixels in the moving region from a monitored area. Then, a circumference-based disorder measurement in dynamic characteristic is developed to obtain the smoke pixels from the grayish pixels. To enhance the reliability of alarming, a fuzzy system is introduced to judge if the smoke will spread out by checking its growth-rate. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A smoke detection method based on video processing comprising: capturing images in a monitored area by an image capturing device; segmenting moving regions from the captured images by a computing device, each moving region comprising a plurality of pixels; extracting a plurality of smoke pixels from the plurality of pixels in the moving regions according to a first rule by the computing device; and determining whether the plurality of smoke pixels forms real smoke by the computing device according to a disorderness and a growth-rate of the plurality of smoke pixels, comprising: determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device when a number of times which an average growth-rate of the smoke pixels is greater than a threshold of growth-rate exceeds a predetermined value within a time duration, wherein the average growth-rate of the smoke pixels is an average of the growth-rates of the smoke pixels, and each growth-rate of the smoke pixels denotes a difference between the numbers of smoke pixels at a first time slice and a second time slice divided by a time difference between the first time slice and the second time slice. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The smoke detection method of claim 1, wherein capturing images in a monitored area by the image capturing device comprises: capturing images in the monitored area by the image capturing device at a first time slice and a second time slice, wherein the first time slice and the second time slice are successive time slices with fixed interval. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The smoke detection method of claim 1, wherein segmenting moving regions from the captured images by the computing device comprises segmenting a moving region in a captured image by the computing device according to the successive images' frame difference in the captured images. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The smoke detection method of claim 1, wherein extracting a plurality of smoke pixels according to a first rule by the computing device comprises: updating the number of smoke pixels according to the color components' gray levels and the intensity (I) of HSI color model of the plurality of pixels by the computing device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The smoke detection method of claim 4, wherein updating the number of the plurality of smoke pixels according to the color components' gray levels and the intensity (I) of HSI color model of the plurality of pixels by the computing device comprises: determining a pixel as a smoke pixel when red, green and blue gray levels of the pixel are approximately equal and when the intensity of the pixel is within a predetermined range. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The smoke detection method of claim 1, wherein determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device according to the disorderness and the growth-rate of the plurality of smoke pixels comprises: determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device when the ratio of circumference of the region formed by the smoke pixels and the number of smoke pixels is greater than a threshold. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The smoke detection method of claim 1, further comprising: giving an alarm when the plurality of smoke pixels is real smoke. ### Claim 8 A smoke detection method based on video processing comprising: capturing images in a monitored area by an image capturing device and segmenting moving regions from the captured images by a computing device, each moving region comprising a plurality of pixels; determining real smoke from the moving regions by the computing device wherein the real smoke comprising a plurality smoke pixels, comprising: determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device according to a disorderness and a growth-rate of the plurality of smoke pixels when a number of times which an average growth-rate of the smoke pixels is greater than a threshold of growth-rate exceeds a predetermined value within a time duration, wherein the average growth-rate of the smoke pixels is an average of the growth-rates of the smoke pixels, and each growth-rate of the smoke pixels denotes a difference between the numbers of smoke pixels at a first time slice and a second time slice divided by a time difference between the first time slice and the second time slice; and giving an alarm according to the number of smoke pixels of the real smoke and the time slices for the real smoke spanning across by a fuzzy system. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The smoke detection method of claim 8, wherein capturing images in a monitored area by the computing device and segmenting moving regions from the captured images by the computing device comprises: capturing images in the monitored area at a first time slice and a second time slice by the image capturing device, wherein the first time slice and the second time slice are successive time slices with fixed interval; and segmenting a moving region in a captured image according to the successive images' frame difference in the captured images. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The smoke detection method of claim 8, wherein determining real smoke from the moving regions by the computing device comprises: updating the number of the smoke pixels according to the color components' gray levels and the intensity (I) of HSI color model of the plurality of pixels. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The smoke detection method of claim 10, wherein updating the number of the smoke pixels according to the color components' gray levels and the intensity (I) of HSI color model of the plurality of pixels comprises: determining a pixel as a smoke pixel when red, green and blue gray levels of the pixel are approximately equal and when the intensity of the pixel is within a predetermined range. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The smoke detection method of claim 8, wherein determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device according to the disorderness and the growth-rate of the plurality of smoke pixels comprises: determining the plurality of smoke pixels as real smoke by the computing device when the ratio of circumference of the region formed by the smoke pixels and the number of smoke pixels is greater than a threshold. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The smoke detection method of claim 8, wherein giving an alarm according to the number of smoke pixels of the real smoke and the time slices for the real smoke spanning across comprises: generating a fuzzy result by the fuzzy system according to the number of smoke pixels of the real smoke and the time slices for the real smoke spanning across; defuzzifying the fuzzy result for generating the alarm strength; and giving the alarm according to the alarm strength. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The smoke detection method of claim 13, wherein generating a fuzzy result by a fuzzy system according to the number of smoke pixels of the real smoke and the time slices for the real smoke spanning across comprises: performing the maximum operation on the number of smoke pixels of the real smoke and the time slices for the real smoke spanning across for generating the fuzzy result. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The smoke detection method of claim 13, wherein defuzzifying the fuzzy result for generating the alarm strength comprises: defuzzifying the fuzzy result by weighted average defuzzification for generating the alarm strength.