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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2008
Marcel Merkel, Oberengstringen, CH;
Hartmut Loos, Hildesheim, DE;
Jan Karl Warzelhan, Bad Salzdefurth Ot Heinde, DE;
Marcel Merkel, Oberengstringen, CH;
Hartmut Loos, Hildesheim, DE;
Jan Karl Warzelhan, Bad Salzdefurth Ot Heinde, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In addition to the clear advantages of video monitoring systems for securing monitoring regions and optionally for following suspicious objects, there is the requirement to secure the private environments of people in the regions being monitored. A masking module () for a monitoring system () is disclosed for the above, wherein the monitoring system () has at least one monitoring camera () designed and/or arranged for observing monitoring regions with moving objects (), comprising a selection device for selecting objects as selected objects (), wherein the masking module () is designed to output the selected objects () or partial regions thereof subsequently together called selected objects () in a masked form, wherein the masking module () is designed to limit the masking of objects () to at least one selected physical partial region () of the monitoring region.