Event monitoring report and display system

An information processing apparatus for performing monitor processing, comprising:

• a first event detecting mechanism configured to detect the first event from a remote monitoring security camera based on determining parameters;
• a display-data generating mechanism configured to generate, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, display data by inserting first event data, for reporting the occurrence of the first event, into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal, wherein,
• the television broadcast audio-visual program data is received by a television receiver over a television communication network and provided to the information processing apparatus,
• upon occurrence of the first event, the display data is displayed as picture-in-picture display in which an image captured by the security camera and associated with the event data is displayed within a video program image contained within the television broadcast audio-visual program data,
• when no event has occurred, said display-data generating mechanism is configured to generate the television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data, and
• wherein the first event data is displayed as the display data only in response to the occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera;
• a reception mechanism configured to receive a decision from a user in response to the display of the generated display data indicating whether the first event should be continued to be reported in the future;
• and
• an updating mechanism configured to update the determining parameters based on the received decision such that a second event equivalent to the first event would not be detected in the future.

An information processing method for performing monitor processing, comprising:

• detecting a first event from a remote monitoring security camera based on determining parameters;
• generating, upon occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera, display data by inserting first event data, for reporting the occurrence of the first event, into television broadcast audio-visual program data based on a predetermined signal, the television broadcast audio-visual program data being received by a television receiver over a television communication network and provided to the information processing apparatus, and the display data being displayed as picture-in-picture display in which an image captured by the security camera and associated with the first event data is displayed within a video program image contained within the television broadcast audio-visual program data, the event data being displayed as the display data only in response to the occurrence of the first event detected from the remote monitoring security camera;
• generating, while no event from a remote monitoring security camera is detected, said television broadcast audio-visual program data based on the predetermined signal alone as the display data;
• receiving a decision from a user in response to the display of the generated display data indicating whether the first event should be continued to be reported in the future;
• and
• updating the determining parameters based on the received decision such that a second event equivalent to the first event would not be detected in the future.