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US 7,742,072 B2Granted
Monitoring image recording apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsHaruo Tagawa, Naoki Ohkawa, Takuya Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kimata
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Abstract
The present invention provides a monitoring image recording apparatus capable of searching image data stored in a hard drive at high speeds. In this invention, video signals input from cameras 10 are detected by motion detector 14, and the difference of search results is stored in a hard drive 18 as incidental information of image data. When playing, based on the incidental information of image data, it is determined whether or not a motion is present within a set range. If motion is present, image data stored in the hard drive 18 is output to a monitor television 23.
Claims11
A monitoring image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a motion detecting unit for detecting motion, including a memory for storing video signals of two different image data to be input from cameras, a comparator for comparing the video signals of two different image data stored in the memory at every predetermined pixel unit, and a primary detector for storing a difference compared by the comparator at every primary predetermined pixel unit;
- a recording medium for recording image data to be input from the cameras;
- an operating unit for setting a search object;
- and
- a control unit for controlling the recording medium,
- wherein the primary detector stores a plurality of the differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit,
- characterized in that the motion detecting unit further includes:
- a second detector for calculating a difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit, based on averaging adjacent differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit among the plurality of differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit stored in the primary detector, wherein the second predetermined pixel unit is greater than the primary predetermined pixel unit;
- wherein the control unit records the difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit calculated by the second detector to the recording medium, together with image data and searches presence/absence of the motion based on the difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit read from the recording medium;
- and
- wherein the control unit selects one of the primary detector and the second detector on the basis of a size of the search object to search presence/absence of the motion of the search object.
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A surveillance system comprising:
- a plurality of monitoring cameras;
- a monitoring image recording apparatus;
- and
- a display device;
- wherein said monitoring image recording apparatus includes:
- a motion detecting unit for detecting motion, having a memory for storing video signals of two different image data to be input from cameras, a comparator for comparing the video signals of two different image data stored in the memory at every predetermined pixel unit, and a primary detector for storing a difference compared by the comparator at every primary predetermined pixel unit;
- a recording medium for recording image data to be input from the cameras;
- an operating unit for setting a search object;
- a control unit for controlling the recording medium;
- and
- a display control unit for reading image data from the recording medium and outputting the image data to the display device,
- wherein the primary detector stores a plurality of the differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit,
- characterized in that the motion detecting unit further includes:
- a second detector for calculating a difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit, based on averaging adjacent differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit among the plurality of differences at every primary predetermined pixel unit stored in the primary detector, wherein the second predetermined pixel unit is greater than the primary predetermined pixel unit;
- wherein the control unit records the difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit calculated by the second detector to the recording medium, together with the image data and searches presence/absence of the motion based on the difference value at every second predetermined pixel unit read from the recording medium;
- and
- wherein the control unit selects one of the primary detector and the second detector on the basis of a size of the search object to search presence/absence of the motion of the search object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.