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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Pelco, Inc., Clovis, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chien-Min Huang, Clovis, CA (US);

Farzin Aghdasi, Clovis, MA (US);

Hongwei Zhu, Natick, MA (US);

Lei Wang, Clovis, CA (US);

Zhan Jiang Ma, Clovis, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pelco, Inc., Clovis, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G08B 13/196 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/181 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); G06K 9/209 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G08B 13/19608 (2013.01); G08B 13/19643 (2013.01); G08B 13/19671 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention includes a master camera that may record master metadata regarding an object of interest and communicate the master metadata to a slave camera. The slave camera may zoom, pan, or tilt to isolate and record more detailed image data regarding the object of interest based on the master metadata. In addition, the slave camera may record slave metadata regarding the object of interest. The master and slave metadata may be stored associated with the recorded image data enabling a later search for the object of interest to be expedited. The recorded image data including the object of interest may be identified with greater ease as it may be guided by the master or slave metadata, or a combination thereof. According to embodiments presented herein, processing time for searching and identifying an object of interest may be reduced by enabling a search on the metadata associated with image data, rather than by searching the image data itself.


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