Robert Boschgmbh

Julia Ebling

Hartmut Loos

Jan Karl Warzelhan

Christof Krueger

Anton Stadler

Matthias Koenig

Marcel Merkel

Dieter Joecker

Jie Yu

Konrad Simon

Soeren Wittmann

A device and method for detection of an event in a monitoring area. The detection device includes a camera interface for transferring at least one image of the monitoring area, an image analysis unit configured to determine event specifications for at least any one position in the monitoring area, an alarm unit configured to define an alarm based on a comparison of alarm specifications with the event specifications, a storage unit configured to store the event specifications for the at least any one position, a calculation unit configured to determine at least one false event area based on the event specifications and the alarm specifications, and a masking unit configured to automatically modify the alarm specifications within the at least one false event area, exclude the false event area from the determination of event specifications by the image analysis unit, or both.

Detection device, method for detection of an event, and computer program

A transcoder device. The transcoder device includes an input portion for receiving at least two encoded camera image streams and for decoding the at least two encoded camera image streams, the two camera image streams displaying different sub-sections of a monitored region, an output portion for encoding a video image stream and for outputting the encoded video image stream, and a processing portion for generating the video image stream on the basis of the at least two camera image streams. The video image stream displays a selecting portion of the monitored region, the selecting portionincluding a sub-region of the one sub-section of the monitored region and a sub-region of the other sub-section of the monitored region which does not overlap the former sub-region.

Transcoder device and client-server architecture comprising the transcoder device

For operators of public or commercial buildings, such as supermarkets, it is interesting to determine how many persons, in particular potential buyers, enter the building each day. In other areas, as well, entering and exiting moving objects are counted: it is typical, for example, that cars driving into and out of a parking garage are counted. The invention relates to a devicefor counting objects in a monitoring area, having a counting module, wherein the counting module comprises an object counter increasing by one counting value when one of the objects completely passes through a counting sectionin a counting directionas a counting object, having at least one monitoring camerafor capturing the monitoring area, wherein the monitoring camerais designed for outputting an image data stream of the monitoring area, and having an extraction moduledesigned for extracting moving image areas in a current image of the image data flow, wherein the moving image areas can represent the objects or partial segments thereof, wherein the counting moduleis designed for increasing the object counterby a partial value for each current image for one of the moving image areas, the direction of motion thereof corresponding to the counting directionand thus representing a potential counting object or a partial segment thereof, said partial value being less than the counting value.

Device, method, and computer for image-based counting of objects passing through a counting section in a specified direction

A method for detection and/or tracking of objects in motionin a scene under surveillance, in which besides the objects in motion, interfering objects and/or interfering regions&#x2014;both hereinafter called interfering factors&#x2014;can occur, is proposed, in which the scene under surveillance, a plurality of regions are defined that are divided up into various region classes; and a first region class Dincludes sensitive regions, in which no and/or only insignificant interfering factorsare located and/or are to be expected; and for detection and/or tracking of the objects in motionin the sensitive regions, a sensitive content analysis is performed, and a second region class Dincludes semi-sensitive regions, in which interfering factorsare located and/or are to be expected, and for detection and/or tracking of the objects in motionin the semi-sensitive regions, a semi-sensitive content analysis is performed, which is limited and/or modified compared to the sensitive content analysis.

Method for detecting and/or tracking objects in motion in a scene under surveillance that has interfering factors; apparatus; and computer program

In daily life, people are often forced to join a queue in order, for example, to pay at a checkout or to be dealt with at an airport, etc. Because of the various forms of a queue, these are not usually recorded automatically, but are analyzed manually. For example, if a long queue is formed at a supermarket, as a result of which the predicted waiting time for the customers rises above a threshold value, this situation can be identified by the checkout personnel, and a further checkout can be opened. A deviceis proposed for identification of a queueof objectsin a monitoring area, having an interfacewhich can be connected to an image sourcewith the interfacebeing designed to observe at least one monitoring imageof the monitoring area of the image source, wherein the monitoring imageshows a scene background of the monitoring area with possible objectshaving an evaluation devicewhich is designed to identify the queueof the objectsin the at least one monitoring image, wherein the evaluation devicehas an object detector modulewhich is designed to detect a plurality of objectson the basis of the monitoring imagewherein the plurality of the detected objectsforms the basis for identification of the queueof the objectswherein the object detector moduleis designed to identify the objectsin the monitoring image with the scene background and/or wherein the object detector modulehas content-sensitive detectorsfor detection of the objects

Apparatus for identification of an object queue, method and computer program

The invention relates to video surveillance systems that are used, for example, for surveying public places, stations, streets, industrial estates, buildings or similar. Said video surveillance systems comprise one or more surveillance cameras that are oriented towards surveillance scenes and transfer image data streams, in the form of image sequences, to an evaluation center. The invention also relates to a device () for identifying and/or classifying a movement pattern in an image sequence of a surveillance scene comprising a plurality of moving objects, an interface () for recording the image sequence, a calculation module () for determining an optical flow field () in the surveillance scene by evaluating the image sequence and an identification module () that is designed in terms of programming and/or circuitry such that the optical field and/or partial areas thereof are compared to one or more patterns in order to identify the movement pattern in the image sequence.

Device for identifying and/or classifying movement patterns in an image sequence of a surveillance scene, method and computer program

The invention relates to a housing for protecting an electronic device () to be fitted to a motor vehicle, the housing comprising a plurality of shells () forming a front () and a cap (), these being assembled together to define jointly an enclosure () for housing an electronic card () provided with remote connectors (), wherein at least one first shell () is formed from at least two elementary shells () and said first shell () includes, molded into it, at least one mobility means allowing relative movement between the elementary shells. The first shell () is formed in one piece, the two elementary shells () are situated side by side, each comprising a window for the passage and/or reception of a connector (), and said mobility means comprises an elastically deformable member ().

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