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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasami Kato, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsuhiko Mori, Hiroshi Sato, Yusuke Mitarai, Yuji Kaneda
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A situation monitoring device which enables monitoring of a variety of situations and reporting in response to the situation using a single device is provided. The situation monitoring device is easy to install and to use and a system therefore can be implemented inexpensively. The situation monitoring device recognizes a place or installation where the device is installed (step S102), holds relational information correlating the place of installation and the situation to be recognized and determines a predetermined situation to be recognized according to place of installation recognition results and the relational information (step S104), recognizes a determined predetermined situation (step S106), and reports the result of the predetermined situation to a user (step S108).
A situation monitoring device comprising:
A method of controlling a situation monitoring device, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium retrievably storing computer-executable program code which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of controlling a situation monitoring device, the storage medium comprising computer-executable program code for:
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Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction: recognition of a predetermined image pattern or behaviour pattern…
Details concerning communication with a camera: network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
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This invention relates to a situation monitoring device that recognizes a situation of a target object and reports that situation, and a situation monitoring system in which such situation monitoring device is connected to a network, and more particularly, to a situation monitoring device and situation monitoring system used for monitoring a situation.
With advances in continuous internet access and expanded broadband service there is a growing awareness of security issues, as evidenced recently by the commercialization and widespread sale of video communications equipment for remote monitoring of homes and offices. By utilizing these types of existing video communications equipment, it is possible to construct security systems for observing intrusions by suspicious persons and monitoring the weak, such as the sick, the aged, and children, from a remote location.
However, with a security system like that described above, it is necessary for the user at the remote location to check the video data periodically, and thus it is difficult to respond quickly when a problem arises. Accordingly, although there is also a security system having the ability to detect and report live objects like the system proposed, for example, by Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2002-74566, such a system provides no more than the ability to detect and report the intrusion by a person who might be a suspicious person.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating the flow of processing performed by a situation monitoring device according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the outlines of the structure of a situation monitoring system including the situation monitoring device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail in accordance with the accompanying drawings.
The situation monitoring device according to the present invention recognizes predetermined situations of predetermined target objects in response to the installation environment of such device and notifies the user of a change in situation through a network.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the outlines of the structure of a situation monitoring system, including the situation monitoring device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.