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Video data storage, search, and retrieval using meta-data and attribute data in a video surveillance system

a video surveillance system and meta-data technology, applied in the field of video data storage in security and surveillance systems, can solve the problems of the weight associated with the camera going down, and achieve the effects of reducing the attribute weight, facilitating tampering, and increasing the attribute weigh

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-12-04
SECURENET SOLUTIONS GRP
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"The present invention is a method for storing, searching, and retrieving video data. The method involves adding meta-data to video data, which is data about events captured in the video. The meta-data can be generated by video detection components or human operators. The meta-data can include information about the number of people detected, motion detected, or any other attribute of the video data. The meta-data is stored in a separate module from the video data and can be used to index and search the video data. The invention also includes a system for automatically adding meta-data to video data. The technical effects of the invention include improved video data management and analysis."

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For example, a weight associated with a camera may go down if the camera was not maintained for a period of time.

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[0060]The present invention is a system, a method, and an apparatus for storing, searching, and retrieving video data. The video data is received from one or more cameras, which could be digital IP cameras. Meta-data is generated by one or more detection components, or manually entered by a human operator. The video data and corresponding meta-data, indexed to the video data, are stored. Attribute data, which relates to such things as the reliability of the meta-data and the video data, and associated weights, or weight functions, is also stored. Attribute data may be determined by a system administrator, and / or determined heuristically.

[0061]FIG. 1 shows an example of a system architecture 100 of one embodiment of the present invention. One or more cameras 104, 106, 108, or other video capture devices capture one or more streams of vide data. One or more additional sensory devices, such as temperature probe 110, pressure probe 112, and other sensory device 114 provide sensory data ...

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One embodiment is a method of storing video data from a video surveillance system having one or more cameras. Video data is captured from one or more surveillance cameras. Meta-data is automatically generated by performing video analysis on the captured video data from the surveillance cameras. A human operator may manually enter additional meta-data. Attribute data and associated weights, representing information about the relevance of the meta-data, is received. The video data is stored in a hierarchical video storage area; the meta-data, indexed by date and time stamp to the video data, is stored in a meta-data storage area; and the attribute data is stored in an attribute storage area. One or more alerts may be issued based on the past and present meta-data. The video data is secured by encrypting and storing the video data remotely, and audit trails are generated about who and when viewed the video data.

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REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority from co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 746,043 entitled “Apparatus, methods, and systems for intelligent security and safety” to John Donovan et al., filed on May 8, 2007, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is generally related to video data storage in security and surveillance systems and applications. More specifically, this invention relates to storage of video data and associated meta-data and attribute data, and subsequent search and retrieval of the video data using the meta-data. The present invention may be used to store, search, and retrieve video data and meta-data that has been obtained from surveillance cameras in various security and safety applications. The present invention may be used to help fight crime, detect and possibly prevent terrorist activity, and help ensure safety procedures are followed.BACKGROUND OF...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N7/18
CPCG06F17/3079G06F17/30793G06F17/30811G06F17/30817G06F17/3082G06F17/30834G11B27/105G11B27/329H04N5/76H04N5/765H04N5/772H04N5/781H04N7/181H04N9/8205H04N2005/91364G06F16/7867G06F16/7343G06F16/78G06F16/784G06F16/786G06F16/7837G06F16/787
Inventor DONOVAN, JOHN J.HUSSAIN, DANIAR
Owner SECURENET SOLUTIONS GRP
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