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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Damian M. Lyons, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
Eric Cohen-Solal, Ossining, NY (US);
Srinivas Gutta, Buchanan, NY (US);
Antonio Colmenarez, Jr., Peekskill, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A security monitoring system including: an alarm system having detectors for detection of an alarm in a structure; at least one camera for capturing image data inside and/or outside the structure; a processor for selecting a subset of the image data upon the occurrence of the alarm based on a predetermined criteria; and a modem for transmitting the subset of image data to a remote location. Preferably, the processor ranks each video frame from the image data according to how well each video frame meets the predetermined criteria and the modem transmits a predetermined number of video frames having the best rank to the remote location.