Obtaining camera device image data representing an event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9955061-B2
Application number	US-201615227535-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 3, 2016
Priority date	Aug 3, 2016
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented and can include for instance: determining a location of interest; and obtaining image data from one or more camera device about the location of interest.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, by one or more processor, a location of interest; and
obtaining, by one or more processor, image data from one or more camera device about the location of interest, wherein the method includes registering a plurality of camera devices to a manager system, and wherein the obtaining includes messaging a location repository to determine identifiers for registered camera devices within a determined geofence.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location of interest is a location of a live event, wherein the obtaining includes obtaining for display crowdsourced image data from a plurality of camera devices, wherein crowdsourced image data includes image data representing the live event.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes establishing a geofence to define the determined geofence and determining devices within the geofence, the establishing a geofence being based on one or more current input of an operator user entered into a user interface.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location of interest is a location of a live event, wherein the obtaining includes establishing a geofence to define the determined geofence and determining devices within the geofence, the establishing a geofence being based on one or more criteria that includes one or more the following selected from the group consisting of (a) a type of the live event, and (b) a number of devices in an area about the live event.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes establishing a geofence to define the determined geofence and identifying camera devices within the geofence, wherein the establishing a geofence is based on one or more current operator input of an operator user entered into a user interface of a manager system, wherein the manager system initiates communications with camera devices within the geofence responsively to the establishing the geofence.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes establishing a geofence to define the determined geofence and identifying camera devices within the geofence, wherein the establishing a geofence is based on one or more current operator input of an operator entered into a user interface of a manager system, wherein the establishing is performed so that the manager system defines X, Y and Z boundaries of the geofence based on one or more input of the operator into a user interface of the manager system.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes prioritizing views from camera devices of the one or more camera device from which to obtain image data.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes prioritizing views from camera devices of the one or more camera device, and wherein the prioritizing views results in an occurrence of one or more of the following selected from the group consisting of: (a) image data of a prioritized view transitioning from an undisplayed state to a displayed state, (b) image data from a higher priority view being displayed in a larger size than a lower priority view, (c) image data of a higher priority view being displayed with an indicator indicating a higher priority.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes prioritizing views from camera devices of the one or more camera device, wherein the location of interest is a location of a live event, and wherein the prioritizing is based on a criteria including one or more of the following selected from the group consisting of: (a) image quality of views of the camera devices, (b) a proximity of the camera devices to the live event, (c) a history of usage of users of the camera devices during a current live event, (d) a history of usage of users of the camera devices during a past event.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining a location of interest includes examining data of an emergency center system.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining a location of interest includes examining data from one or more camera device.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining includes simultaneously obtaining image data from a plurality of camera devices.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes receiving, by the one or more processor, a request to register a camera device into a manager system and in response to the request sending camera control program code to the camera device for installation on the camera device.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes sending, by the one or more processor, one or more prompt message to a camera device of the one or more camera device for prompting of a user of the camera device to operate the camera device, the one or more prompt message being based on one or more operator input into a user interface a manager system, the user interface of the manager system being remote from the camera device, wherein the sending, by the one or more processor, the one or more prompt message is performed while live image data from the camera device is being displayed on a display of the manager system.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes sending, by the one or more processor, one or more prompt message to a camera device of the one or more camera device for prompting of a user of the camera device to operate the camera device, the sending including sending the one or more prompt message from a manager system based on one or more input entered into a user interface of the manager system by an operator of the manager system, the user interface of the manager system being remote from the camera device, wherein the sending, by the one or more processor, the one or more prompt message is performed while live image data from the camera device is being displayed on a display of the manager system.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method includes sending, by the one or more processor, one or more prompt message to a camera device of the one or more camera device for prompting of a user of the camera device to operate the camera device, the sending including automatically sending the one or more prompt message from a manager system independent of any current input entered into a user interface of a manager system by an operator of the manager system, wherein the sending, by the one or more processor, the one or more prompt message is performed while live image data from the camera device is being displayed on a display of the manager system.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location of interest is a location of a live event, and wherein the method includes sending, by the one or more processor, one or more prompt message to a camera device of the one or more camera device for prompting of a user of the camera device to operate the camera device, the sending including automatically sending the one or more prompt message from a manager system independent of any current input entered into a user interface of the manager system by an operator of the manager system, wherein the sending, by the one or more processor, the one or more prompt message is performed while live image data from the camera device is being displayed on a display of the manager system, and wherein the prompt message prompts the user of the camera device to change one or more of a location or an orientation of the camera device to optimize a representation of the live event.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location of interest is a location of a location changing live event, wherein the method includes sending, by the one or more processor, one or more prompt message to a camera

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Carbonell Lee A
• CHENG Tsz Shing
• EDGINGTON Jeffrey Lynn
• Mariadoss Pandian

Classifications

• G06T7/13

  Edge detection · CPC title

• G06T7/292

  Multi-camera tracking · CPC title

• G06T7/11

  Region-based segmentation · CPC title

• G06T7/33

  using feature-based methods · CPC title

• H04N23/661

  Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet · CPC title