Avigilon Fortress Corporation

Sony Corporation

Objectvideo, Inc

The Uab Research Foundation (the University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Geoffrey Egnal

Alan J Lipton

Niels Haering

Andrew J Chosak

Donald Gerard Madden

Zhong Zhang

Weihong Yin

Gary W Myers

Matthew F Frazier

James S Sfekas

Michael C Mannebach

Péter L Venetianer

John I W Clark

Li Yu

Paul C Brewer

Himaanshu Gupta

Peter L Venetianer

Patrick Reardon

Stephen K Pitalo

Robert G Palmer, Jr

Bennett Sampson Wilburn

Theodore Earl Rogers

Christopher N Underwood

John Ian Wallace Clark

David Boyd Pollock

Rodney Feldman

Bobby Gintz

Kyungnam Kim

Bennett Wilburn

A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.

View handling in video surveillance systems

A video surveillance system may include at least one sensing unit capable of being operated in a scanning mode and a video processing unit coupled to the sensing unit, the video processing unit to receive and process image data from the sensing unit and to detect scene events and target activity.

Scanning camera-based video surveillance system

An image capture system comprises a plurality of cameras and a camera mount. The camera mount has a curved portion, and the plurality of cameras are secured to the curved portion. The cameras are oriented radially inward relative to the curved portion of the camera mount, such that the lines of sight of the cameras intersect. Images are captured substantially simultaneously with the plurality of cameras. The captured images are stitched together to form a collective image. The image capture system may be positioned in an aerial vehicle to provide overhead views of an environment, and captured images may be transmitted to a remote location for viewing in substantially real time. A remote user may indicate a region of interest within the collective image, and the image capture system may render a portion of the collective image in accordance with the user's indications.

Multi-lens array system and method

A method of video processing may include analyzing input video information to determine if a current video frame is directed to a same view as a previous video frame; determining whether a new view is present; and indicating a need to use video processing information pertaining to the new view if a new view is determined to be present.

Methods and systems for combining multiple video streams are provided. Video feeds are received from multiple optical sensors, and homography information and/or corner metadata is calculated for each frame from each video stream. This data is used to mosaic the separate frames into a single video frame. Local translation of each image may also be used to synchronize the video frames. The optical sensors can be provided by an airborne platform, such as a manned or unmanned surveillance vehicle. Image data can be requested from a ground operator, and transmitted from the airborne platform to the user in real time or at a later time. Various data arrangements may be used by an aggregation system to serialize and/or multiplex image data received from multiple sensor modules. Fixed-size record arrangement and variable-size record arrangement systems are provided.

System and method to combine multiple video streams

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Geoffrey Egnal