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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2007
Applicants:
Stewart Ellis Smith Greenhill, Hilton, AU;
Svetha Venkatesh, Winthrop, AU;
Inventors:
Stewart Ellis Smith Greenhill, Hilton, AU;
Svetha Venkatesh, Winthrop, AU;
Assignee:
VIRTUAL OBSERVER PTY LTD, Western Australia, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G08B 13/196 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2013.01); G08B 13/19647 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention concerns wide-area video surveillance systems. In a first aspect the invention is a surveillance network, in another aspect the invention is a virtual observer, and in a further aspect the invention is a method for operating a virtual observer. Each segments or frame of video, from each camera of the network is associated with the following trajectory parameters; a time and a spatial position, and possibly a radius, orientation, resolution and field of view, and stored for later recall.