Television – Special applications – Observation of or from a specific location
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-04
2006-04-04
Wong, Allen (Department: 2613)
Television
Special applications
Observation of or from a specific location
C348S143000, C348S154000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07023469
ABSTRACT:
A system (10) for automatically monitoring an area includes a camera unit (12) having therein a video camera (23) and an image processing section (27). The image processing section saves a reference image from the video camera, compares subsequent images to the reference image, and detects and tracks change regions in the subsequent images. For each change region, the image processing section saves a path of movement of the change region, and a selected image of the change region. Selection is carried out so as to optimize the selected image, for example so that a detected person is facing and close to the video camera. The camera unit is network-ready (14), so that a remote workstation (13) can access the images and other information saved in the camera unit.
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