US 8,525,678 B2Granted

Behavior monitoring system and behavior monitoring method

AssigneeNEC Corporation

InventorAkira Monden

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Abstract

A storage element stores identification information identifying to-be-monitored objects (TBMO) and prohibited behavior conditions indicating behaviors respectively prohibited to the TBMO in an area. Entry monitoring elements monitor as specific TBMO, TBMO which enter the area, and judge whether or not specific identification information identifying the specific to TBMO exists in the identification information stored in the storage element. When identification information coincident with the specific identification information exists in the identification information, behavior monitoring element monitor based on the specific identification information, the specific TBMO which behave in the area, and generate behavior information indicating behaviors of the specific TBMO. Behavior judging element select specific prohibited behavior conditions corresponding to the specific identification information from the plurality of prohibited behavior conditions stored in the storage element, and produce an alarm when behaviors indicated by the specific prohibited behavior conditions coincide with behaviors indicated by the behavior information.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A behavior monitoring system, comprising:

a storage unit which stores a plurality of pieces of identification information, each piece of identification information respectively identifying a corresponding one of a plurality of persons and one of a plurality of prohibited behavior conditions indicating behaviors respectively prohibited to said plurality of persons in an area and being correlated with interrelationships of the persons;
an entry monitoring unit configured to monitor as specific persons persons which enter said area, and to judge whether or not a specific piece of identification information identifying said specific persons exists in said plurality of pieces of identification information stored in said storage unit, and to specify said interrelationships of said specific persons;
a behavior monitoring unit configured to monitor, based on said specific piece of identification information, said specific persons which behave in said area and to generate a piece of behavior information indicating behaviors of said specific persons, when a piece of identification information coincident with said specific piece of identification information exists in said plurality of pieces of identification information;
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a behavior judging unit configured to select specific prohibited behavior conditions corresponding to said specific piece of identification information from said plurality of prohibited behavior conditions stored in said storage unit based on said specified interrelationships of said specific persons and to produce an alarm when behaviors indicated by said specific prohibited behavior conditions coincide with behaviors indicated by the piece of said behavior information.

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Facts

Application: 12/674,295Filed 18 Jul 2008
Priority: JP 2007-21497621 Aug 2007
Published: US 2011/0115634 A119 May 2011
Granted: 3 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06T 7/20
Image analysis: analysis of motion
G06V 20/52
Context or environment of the image: surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects
G08B 13/19613
Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction: recognition of a predetermined image pattern or behaviour pattern…
G06T 2207/10016
Image acquisition modality: video; Image sequence