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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd., Changwon-si, KR;
Jeong Eun Lim, Changwon-si, KR;
Seung In Noh, Changwon-si, KR;
HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD., Changwon-si, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an event searching apparatus comprising: a communication interface configured to receive, from a camera, a plurality of image frames obtained by photographing a surveillance region and metadata comprising time information of occurrence of an event and location information regarding a location of the occurrence of the event; a search map generator configured to generate a search map corresponding to the image frames and comprising a plurality of blocks; a time stamp setter configured to set at least one time stamp comprising the time information in at least one block, corresponding to the location information; a user interface configured to receive a search location as a search condition for an event search in the surveillance region; and an event searcher configured to search for and find a time stamp included in a block near the search location among the blocks, and perform event search using metadata regarding an image frame indicated by the found time stamp.