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Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Yuki Watanabe, Kodaira, JP;

Tsuneya Kurihara, Tokyo, JP;

Naoto Akira, Tokyo, JP;

Daisuke Matsubara, Koganei, JP;

Atsushi Hiroike, Kawagoe, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Watanabe, Kodaira, JP;

Tsuneya Kurihara, Tokyo, JP;

Naoto Akira, Tokyo, JP;

Daisuke Matsubara, Koganei, JP;

Atsushi Hiroike, Kawagoe, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2621 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01);
Abstract

A video monitoring apparatus capable of efficiently superimposing additional information on a monitoring camera image is provided. The video monitoring apparatus holds image specifying information for specifying an image picked up by a camera and additional information in correspondence with each other. In superimposing additional information on an image, additional information corresponding to images having a distance therebetween falling within a prescribed range is searched for, and out of the thus found additional information, one that may be fit within an image currently picked up by the camera is superimposed on the camera image.


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