Video surveillance system with selectable operating scenarios and system training for improved situational awareness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017193774-A1
Application number	US-201514983711-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Dec 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system including a plurality of cameras of a surveillance system that detect threats within a secured geographic area, a first file embodied in memory that defines a plurality of human use scenarios of the secured area, one of the plurality of human user scenarios being selected by a human user, a respective second file corresponding to each of the plurality of human user scenarios embodied in memory that defines critical surveillance areas of the secured area based upon the selected scenario and at least upon a time of day, the second file receiving from the user an identifier of one or more of the plurality of cameras that correspond to each of the critical surveillance areas and processor of the surveillance system that preferentially displays video from each of the critical surveillance areas based upon the time of day and camera identifiers received from the user.

First claim

1 . A system comprising:
a plurality of cameras of a surveillance system that detect threats within a secured geographic area; a first file embodied in memory of the surveillance system that defines a plurality of human use scenarios of the secured area, one of the plurality of human user scenarios being selected by a human user; a respective second file corresponding to each of the plurality of human user scenarios embodied in memory of the surveillance system that defines critical surveillance areas of the secured area based upon the selected scenario and at least upon a time of day, the second file receiving from the user an identifier of one or more of the plurality of cameras that correspond to each of the critical surveillance areas; and processor of the surveillance system that preferentially displays video from each of the critical surveillance areas based upon the time of day and camera identifiers received from the user.

2 . The system as in claim 1 further comprising a processor that detects one of the critical areas based upon previous alarms and alarm statistics including one or more of alarm trend and alarm history from the secured area or a camera or other security sensors.

3 . The system as in claim 2 wherein the previous alarms further comprise one or more of motion detection, camera sabotage detection, camera blur, video analytics alarms and integration system alarms including access control system, fire detection system intrusion detection system, input or alarm from gaming slot machine in a casino, hospital attendance system data, school attendance system and data Input from “Live Flight Information Status” or “Flight Schedule database.”

4 . The system as in claim 1 further comprising a processor that detects one of the critical areas based upon camera selection statistics and trend.

5 . The system as in claim 1 further comprising a processor that detects one of the critical areas based upon playback frequency of recorded video from one or more of the plurality of cameras.

6 . The system as in claim 1 wherein one of the critical areas further comprises a main entrance and main exit of a building and the time of day further comprises an opening and closing time of the building for business.

7 . The system as in claim 1 wherein the plurality of human use scenarios further comprises at least a school, a hospital, a casino, a bank, an airport, a retail business corporate premises, government sector including one or more of Homeland Security location, law enforcement location, public sector travel and transit location, manufacturing premises, entertainment premises, media and leisure premises and utility premises including power plant.

8 . The system as in claim 1 further comprising a user interface of the surveillance system that displays a respective icon for each of the school, hospital, casino, bank, airport, retail business, corporate premises, government sector premises including at least Homeland Security locations or law enforcement locations, travel and transit location, manufacturing premises entertainment premises, media and leisure premises and utility location including at least a power plant and that receives an input from the human user identifying the one of the plurality of human user scenarios selected by the human user.

9 . The system as in claim 8 further comprising a processor that displays descriptive information associated with each preferentially displayed video based upon a time of day including at least “students and buses are arriving at the school” based upon the input from the human user.

10 . The system as in claim 1 wherein video of the critical surveillance areas is not always constant against configured human user scenarios, but gets updated dynamically in runtime based on the screen and salvo layout including camera tiles in the screen, the video gets increased automatically independent of the number of Video of the critical surveillance areas where the video are increased for any given point of time in a day or for the additional video of the critical surveillance areas and where, upon occasion, video is extended to other display monitors as configured.

11 . A system comprising:
a surveillance system that protects a secured geographic area; a plurality of cameras distributed throughout the secured area; a first file embodied in a memory of the surveillance system that defines a plurality of human use scenarios of the secured area, each of the plurality of human user scenarios being selectable by a human user; a respective second file corresponding to each of the plurality of human user scenarios embodied in memory of the surveillance system that defines critical surveillance areas of the secured area based upon the selected scenario; and processor of the surveillance system that preferentially displays video from each of the critical surveillance areas based upon a respective human use criteria of each of the critical areas.

12 . The system as in claim 11 wherein the plurality of human use scenarios further comprises at least a school or a hospital.

13 . The system as in claim 12 wherein the human use criteria further comprises a time of day.

14 . The system as in claim 13 wherein in the case of a school, the time of day further comprises a set of normal operating hours of the school.

15 . The system as in claim 11 wherein the human use criteria further comprises a number of people in one of the critical areas that exceeds a threshold value.

16 . The system as in claim 11 further comprising a processor that detects at least one of the critical areas based upon previous alarms.

17 . The system as in claim 11 further comprising a processor that detects at least one of the critical areas based upon camera selection over some time period by a user.

18 . The system as in claim 11 further comprising a processor that detects one of the critical areas based upon a playback frequency of recorded video from one or more of the plurality of cameras.

19 . A system comprising:
a surveillance system that protects a secured geographic area; a plurality of cameras distributed throughout the secured area; a first file embodied in a memory of the surveillance system that defines a plurality of human use scenarios of the secured area, each of the plurality of human user scenarios being selectable by a human user; a respective second file corresponding to each of the plurality of human user scenarios embodied in memory of the surveillance system that defines critical surveillance areas of the secured area and at least one of the plurality of cameras that covers each of the defined critical surveillance areas based upon a selected scenario of the selectable scenarios; and processor of the surveillance system that preferentially displays video from each of the critical surveillance areas based upon a respective human use or non-use criteria of each of the critical areas.

20 . The system as in claim 19 wherein video gets loaded automatically throughout the day based on the time and wherein the processor that displays video further comprises one or more of a mobile platform, cloud platform, mobile screen and wearable screen.

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Meganathan Deepak Sundar
• Dhayalan Sivasanthanam
• Mohanam Damodharan

Classifications

• G08B13/19645 Primary

  Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over · CPC title

• G08B13/19669

  Event triggers storage or change of storage policy · CPC title

• H04N7/181 Primary

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title

• H04N7/188

  Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position (signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253) · CPC title

• G08B13/19693 Primary

  using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen · CPC title