Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7486183B2
Filed: 2004-05-24
Issued: 2009-02-03
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Eaton Corp     (Current Assignee) Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd
Inventor(s): Charles J. Luebke, Russ C. Sabo, William C. Sabram, Joseph M. Ballay, Michael L. McManus

Title: Home system and method for sending and displaying digital images

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, server, bandwidth, first storage device, first network interface, non-volatile removable memoriescomputer, device, network, camera, processor, monitor, storage[FEATURE ID: 1] server, memory, sensor, adapted, display
[FEATURE ID: 2] apparatusagent, interface, algorithm, appliance, application, arrangement[FEATURE ID: 2] integral digital camera
[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] maintainprovide, transmit, receive, communicate, present, create, capture[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] detect, send, display, store
[FEATURE ID: 4] high complexity continuous data, interest, extent, data, https server session, https client, acceptable amount, motion activity, motion objects, format files, JPEG filesactivity, events, content, time, application, images, object[FEATURE ID: 4] event, receipt, motion, information, message, request messages
[FEATURE ID: 5] unreliable connectionnetwork, battery, memory, transmitter, switch, transceiver, modem[FEATURE ID: 5] second communication port, wireless port
[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] comprising, capturing, transmitting, capturing, comprisesproviding, storing, of, incorporating, defining, receiving, containing[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] comprising, including, having, includes
[FEATURE ID: 7] recordation terminal, evententry, input, location, access, application, area, port[FEATURE ID: 7] digital image, interface
[FEATURE ID: 8] connectionserver, computer, controller, transceiver, display, gateway, terminal[FEATURE ID: 8] first communication port, second device, display responsive, cellular telephone, client device, global communication network port, digital camera, server prior, motion detector, communication port, digital camera device
[FEATURE ID: 9] processescomponents, devices, processors, elements[FEATURE ID: 9] sensors
[FEATURE ID: 10] events, analysis artifactsevent, representations, information, image, objects, file, content[FEATURE ID: 10] digital image responsive, digital images
[FEATURE ID: 11] immediate transmissiondetection, transmitted, captured[FEATURE ID: 11] detected
[FEATURE ID: 12] https client sessionemail, sms, application, internet, uplink, alarm[FEATURE ID: 12] antenna
[FEATURE ID: 13] high resolution digital camerahousing, frame, network[FEATURE ID: 13] structure
[FEATURE ID: 14] circuit, thumbssystem, locations, first, device, sensor, events, tags[FEATURE ID: 14] devices
[FEATURE ID: 15] motion thresholdcommand, signal, request[FEATURE ID: 15] request message
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 2]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 4]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection [FEATURE ID: 5]

, the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 7]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 8]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 6]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 7]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 4]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

the following processes [FEATURE ID: 9]

: determining when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 4]

of data [FEATURE ID: 4]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 10]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 11]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 12]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 4]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 4]

and server [FEATURE ID: 1]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount [FEATURE ID: 4]

of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 1]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 13]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 14]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 15]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 4]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 10]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 14]

1 . A system for a structure [FEATURE ID: 13]

, said system for a structure comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

: a server [FEATURE ID: 1]

including [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

a first communication port [FEATURE ID: 8]

, a second communication port [FEATURE ID: 5]

and a memory [FEATURE ID: 1]

having [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

at least one digital image [FEATURE ID: 7]

; a plurality of first devices , at least one of said first devices comprising a sensor [FEATURE ID: 1]

adapted [TRANSITIVE ID: 1]

to detect [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

an event [FEATURE ID: 4]

, and a first communication port adapted to send [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

the detected [TRANSITIVE ID: 11]

event to the first communication port of said server ; and a second device [FEATURE ID: 8]

including a second communication port and a display [FEATURE ID: 1]

, wherein the second communication port of said server is adapted to send one of said at least one digital image to the second communication port of said second device responsive to receipt [FEATURE ID: 4]

of said detected event at the first communication port of said server , and wherein said second device is adapted to display [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

said one of said at least one digital image on said display responsive [FEATURE ID: 8]

to receipt thereof at the second communication port of said second device . 2 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said second device is a cellular telephone [FEATURE ID: 8]

; and wherein said second communication port of said second device is an antenna [FEATURE ID: 12]

. 3 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said second device is a client device [FEATURE ID: 8]

; and wherein said second communication port of said second device is a global communication network port [FEATURE ID: 8]

. 4 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said server includes [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

an integral digital camera [FEATURE ID: 2]

adapted to create said at least one digital image in the memory of said server . 5 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said server includes an interface [FEATURE ID: 7]

adapted to communicate with a digital camera [FEATURE ID: 8]

, receive said at least one digital image from said digital camera , and store [FEATURE ID: 3]

said at least one digital image from said digital camera in the memory of said server . 6 . The system for a structure of claim 5 wherein said interface is structured to to temporarily engage said digital camera . 7 . The system for a structure of claim 5 wherein said digital camera includes a wireless port [FEATURE ID: 5]

; and wherein said interface is adapted to communicate with the wireless port of said digital camera . 8 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said one of said at least one digital image is a predetermined digital image in the memory of said server prior [FEATURE ID: 8]

to receipt of said detected event at the first communication port of said server . 9 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein said one of said at least one digital image is communicated to the first communication port of said server with said detected event . 10 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein the sensor of said at least one of said first devices is a motion detector [FEATURE ID: 8]

adapted to detect motion [FEATURE ID: 4]

as said event . 11 . The system for a structure of claim 1 wherein some of said devices [FEATURE ID: 14]

include a plurality of sensors [FEATURE ID: 9]

, each one of said sensors sensing information [FEATURE ID: 4]

and including a corresponding communication port [FEATURE ID: 8]

, which sends said sensed information to the first communication port of said server . 12 . A system for a structure , said system for a structure comprising : a server including a first communication port , a second communication port and a memory having at least one digital image ; a plurality of first devices , at least one of said first devices comprising a sensor adapted to detect an event , and a first communication port adapted to send the detected event to the first communication port of said server ; and a second device including a second communication port and a display , wherein the second communication port of said server is structured to send one of said at least one digital image to the second communication port of said second device responsive to receipt of said detected event at the first communication port of said server , wherein said second device is adapted to display said one of said at least one digital image on said display responsive to receipt thereof at the second communication port of said second device , wherein said one of said at least one digital image is a predetermined digital image in the memory of said server ; and wherein said server is adapted to receive a message [FEATURE ID: 4]

from said at least one of said first devices as said detected event and to associate said message with said predetermined digital image . 13 . A system for a structure , said system for a structure comprising : a server including a first communication port , a second communication port and a memory having at least one digital image ; a plurality of first devices , at least one of said first devices comprising a sensor adapted to detect an event , and a first communication port adapted to send the detected event to the first communication port of said server ; and a second device including a second communication port and a display , wherein the second communication port of said server is structured to send one of said at least one digital image to the second communication port of said second device responsive to receipt of said detected event at the first communication port of said server , wherein said second device is adapted to display said one of said at least one digital image on said display responsive to receipt thereof at the second communication port of said second device , wherein said server is adapted to receive a message and a corresponding digital image from said at least one of said first devices at the first communication port of said server , and to store said corresponding digital image as said one of said at least one digital image in the memory of said server . 14 . A system for a structure , said system for a structure comprising : a server including a first communication port , a second communication port and a memory having at least one digital image ; a plurality of first devices , at least one of said first devices comprising a sensor adapted to detect an event , and a first communication port adapted to send the detected event to the first communication port of said server ; and a second device including a second communication port and a display , wherein the second communication port of said server is structured to send one of said at least one digital image to the second communication port of said second device responsive to receipt of said detected event at the first communication port of said server , wherein said second device is adapted to display said one of said at least one digital image on said display responsive to receipt thereof at the second communication port of said second device , wherein said second device is adapted to send a request message [FEATURE ID: 15]

from the second communication port thereof to the second communication port of said server ; wherein said server is adapted to receive said request message from the second communication port thereof and to send another request message to the first communication port of said at least one of said first devices ; wherein said at least one of said first devices is a digital camera device [FEATURE ID: 8]

comprising said sensor , which is adapted to detect receipt of said another request message as said event , a digital camera adapted to create a corresponding digital image responsive [FEATURE ID: 10]

to said event , and said first communication port of said at least one of said first devices being adapted to send said corresponding digital image as said detected event to the first communication port of said server ; wherein said server is adapted to stored said corresponding digital image in the memory of said server and to send said corresponding digital image from the second communication port thereof to the second communication port of said second device ; and wherein said second device is adapted to display said corresponding digital image on said display responsive to receipt thereof at the second communication port of said second device . 15 . The system for a structure of claim 14 wherein said second device is adapted to send a plurality of request messages [FEATURE ID: 4]

from the second communication port thereof to the second communication port of said server ; and wherein said second device is further adapted to display a plurality of corresponding digital images [FEATURE ID: 10]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US20090022362A1
Filed: 2007-07-16
Issued: 2009-01-22
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Cernium Corp     (Current Assignee) CheckVideo LLC
Inventor(s): Nikhil Gagvani, Philip Allen Robertson

Title: Apparatus and methods for video alarm verification

[FEATURE ID: 1] methoddevice, system, protocol, communication method, computer method, monitoring method, security method[FEATURE ID: 1] method, alarm signal sensor
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, capturing, transmitting, capturing, determiningmonitoring, receiving, processing, detecting, providing, triggering, generating[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] authenticating, conducting, determining, use
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, interest, events, https client session, https server session, https clientendpoint, event, interface, agent, image, asset, appliance[FEATURE ID: 3] alarm, alarm sensor, electronic access control system output
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintaintransmitting, capturing, collecting, issuing, communicating, signaling, broadcasting[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] receiving, sending
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, bandwidth, motion objects, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG files, thumbscontent, information, images, video, data, metadata, frames[FEATURE ID: 5] video analytics, video data, interest, instructions, parameters
[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] comprisingincluding, compromising, having, includes, containing, involving, of[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] comprising
[FEATURE ID: 7] recordation terminal, first network interfacerecorder, transmitter, point, port, display, location, network[FEATURE ID: 7] video source
[FEATURE ID: 8] connection, servertransceiver, gateway, network, receiver, client, camera, computer[FEATURE ID: 8] recipient, glass breakage sensor, security keypad, biometric identification system, profile, system
[FEATURE ID: 9] eventalarm, indicator, image, alert, notification, action, occurrence[FEATURE ID: 9] alarm signal, significant event, infrared sensor
[TRANSITIVE ID: 10] occursresides, results, applies, occurred, originates, happens, indicates[TRANSITIVE ID: 10] exists
[FEATURE ID: 11] extentembodiment, aspect, item[FEATURE ID: 11] claim
[FEATURE ID: 12] datavideo data, sensor data, image data[FEATURE ID: 12] premise video data
[FEATURE ID: 13] compact representationdefinition, plot, record, location, signature, feature, summary[FEATURE ID: 13] representation, segment
[FEATURE ID: 14] high resolution digital cameraswitch, camera, thermometer, detector, photocell, timer, transducer[FEATURE ID: 14] motion sensor, sound sensor, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, humidity sensor
[FEATURE ID: 15] first storage devicetimer, sensor, magnetometer, light, thermistor, potentiometer, scanner[FEATURE ID: 15] door contact sensor, window contact sensor, tension sensor, magnetic sensor
[FEATURE ID: 16] circuitsensor, detector, system, switch[FEATURE ID: 16] smoke sensor
[FEATURE ID: 17] motion thresholdwarning, state, device, change, situation, status, location[FEATURE ID: 17] potential significant event
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 7]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 8]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 2]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 9]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 3]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an event of interest comprises the following processes : determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

when an event of interest occurs [TRANSITIVE ID: 10]

; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 11]

of data [FEATURE ID: 12]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 13]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 3]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 3]

and server [FEATURE ID: 8]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 5]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 14]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 15]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 7]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 16]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 17]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity ; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 5]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 5]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for authenticating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an alarm [FEATURE ID: 3]

, comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

: receiving [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

from an alarm sensor [FEATURE ID: 3]

at a monitored premise an alarm signal [FEATURE ID: 9]

associated with a potential significant event [FEATURE ID: 17]

at the monitored premise ; receiving from the monitored premise video data [FEATURE ID: 12]

from a video source [FEATURE ID: 7]

associated with the alarm sensor ; and conducting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video analytics [FEATURE ID: 5]

on the video data [FEATURE ID: 5]

to determine whether or not the potential significant event exists [TRANSITIVE ID: 10]

. 2 . The method of claim [FEATURE ID: 11]

1 , further comprising , upon determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

that the significant event [FEATURE ID: 9]

exists , sending [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

to a recipient [FEATURE ID: 8]

a representation [FEATURE ID: 13]

of a segment [FEATURE ID: 13]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the video data associated with the significant event . 3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the alarm sensor is selected from the group consisting of a motion sensor [FEATURE ID: 14]

, a glass breakage sensor [FEATURE ID: 8]

, a door contact sensor [FEATURE ID: 15]

, a window contact sensor [FEATURE ID: 15]

, an infrared sensor [FEATURE ID: 9]

, a sound sensor [FEATURE ID: 14]

, a pressure sensor [FEATURE ID: 14]

, a tension sensor [FEATURE ID: 15]

, a magnetic sensor [FEATURE ID: 15]

, a temperature sensor [FEATURE ID: 14]

, a humidity sensor [FEATURE ID: 14]

, and a fire or smoke sensor [FEATURE ID: 16]

. 4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the alarm signal sensor [FEATURE ID: 1]

is selected from the group consisting of an electronic access control system output [FEATURE ID: 3]

, a security keypad [FEATURE ID: 8]

, and a biometric identification system [FEATURE ID: 8]

. 5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising , upon determining that the significant event exists : consulting a profile [FEATURE ID: 8]

for routing instructions [FEATURE ID: 5]

; and sending to a recipient a representation of a segment of interest of the video data associated with the significant event according to the routing instructions . 6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the conducting video analytics includes consulting a profile to determine parameters [FEATURE ID: 5]

for use [FEATURE ID: 2]

in the video analytics . 7 . A system [FEATURE ID: 8]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7474205B2
Filed: 2004-03-24
Issued: 2009-01-06
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Richard Steven Trela     
Inventor(s): Richard Steven Trela

Title: Stand-off vehicle under-carriage inspection and detection system for deterring vehicle bombers from a safe stand-off distance

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, apparatus, recordation terminal, https client session, https server session, https clientinterface, application, attachment, device, appliance, process, agent[FEATURE ID: 1] automatic digital video vehicle undercarriage image scanner, means, network interface system capable
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, comprising, transmitting, capturingproviding, generating, using, monitoring, receiving, performing, allowing[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] comprising, conducting, enabling
[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] maintain, immediate transmissionaccess, transfer, retrieval, transmission, capturing, processing, receipt[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] transmitting, storage, review, remote viewing
[FEATURE ID: 4] high complexity continuous data, capturing, interest, bandwidth, high resolution digital camera, first storage device, circuit, motion threshold, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG filesinformation, data, content, video, camera, pictures, digital[FEATURE ID: 4] wireless audio, video communications system, remote video inspections, digital images, gathered, images, time warnings
[FEATURE ID: 5] unreliable connection, non-volatile removable memoriesmemory, capacity, battery, file, storage, media[FEATURE ID: 5] digital image storage system
[FEATURE ID: 6] connection, servernetwork, computer, system, processor, radio, recorder, receiver[FEATURE ID: 6] security officer, network LAN, WAN system, radio transmitter, microphone capable
[FEATURE ID: 7] eventssignal, file, video[FEATURE ID: 7] pre-recorded message
[FEATURE ID: 8] first network interfacecomputer, transmitter, microphone[FEATURE ID: 8] car radio
[FEATURE ID: 9] motion objectsobjects, cameras, same, images, and, vehicles[FEATURE ID: 9] undercarriage, long range traffic signal communications components
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 1]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 4]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection [FEATURE ID: 5]

, the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 1]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 6]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 4]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event of interest [FEATURE ID: 4]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an event of interest comprises the following processes : determining when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent of data associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 7]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 3]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 1]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 1]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 1]

and server [FEATURE ID: 6]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 4]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 8]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 4]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity ; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 9]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories [FEATURE ID: 5]

1 . A stand - off vehicle security checkpoint machine and wireless audio [FEATURE ID: 4]

/ video communications system [FEATURE ID: 4]

comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: an automatic digital video vehicle undercarriage image scanner [FEATURE ID: 1]

for conducting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

remote video inspections [FEATURE ID: 4]

of vehicles ' under carriage as the vehicles pass over it ; a means [FEATURE ID: 1]

of wirelessly transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

said scanned under carriage digital video images of said vehicles undercarriage a safe stand - off distance away ; a digital image storage system [FEATURE ID: 5]

for the storage [FEATURE ID: 3]

of said scanned digital images [FEATURE ID: 4]

of the undercarriage [FEATURE ID: 9]

for a on - the - spot review or later review [FEATURE ID: 3]

by a security officer [FEATURE ID: 6]

; a network interface system capable [FEATURE ID: 1]

of enabling [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

remote viewing [FEATURE ID: 3]

of the gathered [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

images [FEATURE ID: 4]

by security or law enforcement agency personnel via a network LAN [FEATURE ID: 6]

or WAN system [FEATURE ID: 6]

; a radio transmitter [FEATURE ID: 6]

and microphone capable [FEATURE ID: 6]

of playing a pre-recorded message [FEATURE ID: 7]

in real - time instructing oncoming vehicles to follow specific security procedures before approaching a security checkpoint via their car radio [FEATURE ID: 8]

and further capable of communicating real - time warnings [FEATURE ID: 4]

to oncoming vehicles to stop before approaching any closer to a security checkpoint via their car radio ; a housing and tower for supporting long range traffic signal communications components [FEATURE ID: 9]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7463753B2
Filed: 2004-09-15
Issued: 2008-12-09
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Raytheon Co     (Current Assignee) Raytheon Co
Inventor(s): Darin S. Williams, Edward N. Kitchen

Title: FLIR-to-missile boresight correlation and non-uniformity compensation of the missile seeker

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, circuitsystem, device, process, methods, means, wireless method, mechanism[FEATURE ID: 1] method, missile
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, comprises, determiningusing, by, monitoring, and, utilizing, generating, employing[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] having, comprising, receiving, performing
[FEATURE ID: 3] high complexity continuous data, interest, data, bandwidth, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG files, thumbsinformation, content, video, frames, events, edges, motion[FEATURE ID: 3] target handover, high resolution launch system video, launch system video, NUC terms, temporal motion, scene motion, images, same edges
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] comprisingcomprises, includes, providing[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] provides
[FEATURE ID: 5] point, extentplurality, source, first, range, portion, array[FEATURE ID: 5] temporal sequence
[FEATURE ID: 6] connection, first storage device, first network interfacecamera, transceiver, transmitter, memory, receiver, housing, controller[FEATURE ID: 6] missile launch system, imager, missile seeker
[FEATURE ID: 7] capturing, transmitting, capturingreceiving, storing, processing, generating, monitoring, tracking, acquiring[FEATURE ID: 7] providing
[FEATURE ID: 8] eventinput, image, information[FEATURE ID: 8] missile video
[TRANSITIVE ID: 9] followingnext, subsequent, preceding[TRANSITIVE ID: 9] second frame
[FEATURE ID: 10] eventsinformation, data, image[FEATURE ID: 10] alignment
[FEATURE ID: 11] high resolution digital cameracircuit, network, lens[FEATURE ID: 11] filter
[FEATURE ID: 12] motion activitymotion, movements, displacement[FEATURE ID: 12] measured scene motion
[FEATURE ID: 13] motion objectsscenes, pixels, edges, images, video, objects[FEATURE ID: 13] seeker, frames
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus for to reliably maintain high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 3]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

: a point [FEATURE ID: 5]

of recordation terminal ( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 6]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 7]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 8]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 3]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the following [TRANSITIVE ID: 9]

processes : determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 5]

of data [FEATURE ID: 3]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 10]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission fails ; opening an https client session ; opening an https server session ; connecting between an https client and server ; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 3]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 11]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 6]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 6]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold ; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity [FEATURE ID: 12]

; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 13]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 3]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 3]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 3]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 3]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

of providing [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

target handover [FEATURE ID: 3]

from a missile launch system [FEATURE ID: 6]

having [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an infrared ( IR ) imager [FEATURE ID: 6]

that provides [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high resolution launch system video [FEATURE ID: 3]

to a missile [FEATURE ID: 1]

having a missile seeker [FEATURE ID: 6]

with an IR imager that provides low resolution missile video , comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: receiving [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

missile video [FEATURE ID: 8]

from the missile seeker ' s IR imager ; receiving launch system video [FEATURE ID: 3]

from the launch system ' s IR imager ; performing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

a boresight correlation of the missile video to the launch system video to align the seeker ' s IR imager to the launch system ' s IR imager ; performing non-uniformity compensation ( NUC ) on the missile video to compute NUC terms [FEATURE ID: 3]

for the seeker ' s IR imager , said computed NUC terms not being applied to the missile video used in the performance of the boresight correlation ; and handing over the alignment [FEATURE ID: 10]

and NUC terms for the seeker ' s IR imager to the missile seeker . 2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein boresight correlation is performed by , using temporal motion [FEATURE ID: 3]

of the seeker [FEATURE ID: 13]

over a plurality of frames [FEATURE ID: 13]

of missile video to form a first edge map ; measuring scene motion [FEATURE ID: 3]

in the missile video ; spatially processing images [FEATURE ID: 3]

in the launch system video in accordance with the measured scene motion [FEATURE ID: 12]

to locate at least some of the same edges [FEATURE ID: 3]

to form a second edge map ; and correlating the first and second edge maps . 3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first edge map is formed by differencing images in the missile video . 4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein a first frame of the missile video is subtracted from a second frame [FEATURE ID: 9]

to form the first difference image . 5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the launch system video is spatially processed with a displace and subtract filter [FEATURE ID: 11]

in accordance with the measured scene motion . 6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-uniformity compensation is performed on the missile video by , registering a temporal sequence [FEATURE ID: 5]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7463145B2
Filed: 2005-09-22
Issued: 2008-12-09
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) RSI Video Technologies Inc     (Current Assignee) RSI Video Technologies Inc
Inventor(s): Keith Jentoft

Title: Security monitoring arrangement and method using a common field of view

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, serversystem, network, device, user, apparatus, sensor, unit[FEATURE ID: 1] non-AC power source, communication device, central controller
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, transmittingproviding, maintaining, monitoring, generating, controlling, communicating, having[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] receiving, increasing, integrating
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, recordation terminal, https client session, https server session, https clientinterface, application, object, event, agent, endpoint, alarm[FEATURE ID: 3] integrated security arrangement, intrusion, electronic circuit
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintain, eventsrecord, receive, provide, acquire, stream, detect, catch[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] sense, capture
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, bandwidth, motion objects, format files, JPEG filescontent, information, files, video, assets, data, events[FEATURE ID: 5] images, wireless signals
[FEATURE ID: 6] unreliable connectionbattery, power, network[FEATURE ID: 6] self
[TRANSITIVE ID: 7] comprisingincorporating, comprises, having, includes, containing, of, with[TRANSITIVE ID: 7] comprising, including
[FEATURE ID: 8] connection, first storage device, first network interfacecontroller, camera, monitor, display, processor, battery, computer[FEATURE ID: 8] detection device, capture device, base unit, housing
[FEATURE ID: 9] capturing, capturing, determiningsensing, monitoring, tracking, triggering, imaging, registering, shooting[FEATURE ID: 9] powered
[FEATURE ID: 10] eventimage, element, alert, incident, entry, individual, action[FEATURE ID: 10] intrusion indication, object
[FEATURE ID: 11] interestsubject, reference, exposure[FEATURE ID: 11] response
[FEATURE ID: 12] processescomponents, functions, modes, aspects, elements[FEATURE ID: 12] portions
[TRANSITIVE ID: 13] occurs, thumbstriggers, indicates, events, addresses, alarms, starts[TRANSITIVE ID: 13] arms
[FEATURE ID: 14] extentembodiment, aspect, item[FEATURE ID: 14] claim
[FEATURE ID: 15] immediate transmissiontriggering, reception, sensing, transmission[FEATURE ID: 15] movement indication
[FEATURE ID: 16] high resolution digital cameraswitch, frame, housing, camera, sensor[FEATURE ID: 16] mountable housing, passive infrared sensor
[FEATURE ID: 17] circuit, analysis artifactscamera, sensors, motion, detector, mechanism, first, device[FEATURE ID: 17] second sensor
[FEATURE ID: 18] motion thresholdcondition, warning, user, sensor, flag, motion, trigger[FEATURE ID: 18] facility, sense movement, control, signal
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection [FEATURE ID: 6]

, the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 3]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 8]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 9]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 10]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 11]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 9]

an event of interest comprises the following processes [FEATURE ID: 12]

: determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 9]

when an event of interest occurs [TRANSITIVE ID: 13]

; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 14]

of data associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 4]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 15]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 3]

and server [FEATURE ID: 1]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 5]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 16]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 8]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 8]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 17]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 18]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity ; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 5]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 17]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 13]

1 . An integrated security arrangement [FEATURE ID: 3]

, comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

: an intrusion sensor to sense [FEATURE ID: 4]

an intrusion [FEATURE ID: 3]

at a target area of a facility [FEATURE ID: 18]

; a self [FEATURE ID: 6]

- powered [TRANSITIVE ID: 9]

detection device [FEATURE ID: 8]

including [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

: a second sensor [FEATURE ID: 17]

to sense movement [FEATURE ID: 18]

; a non-Alternating Current ( AC ) power source ; an image - capture device [FEATURE ID: 8]

to capture [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

images [FEATURE ID: 5]

in response [FEATURE ID: 11]

to an intrusion indication [FEATURE ID: 10]

from the intrusion sensor and to a movement indication [FEATURE ID: 15]

from the second sensor ; an electronic circuit [FEATURE ID: 3]

to control [TRANSITIVE ID: 18]

power drawn from the non-AC power source [FEATURE ID: 1]

by the second sensor and the image - capture device , the electronic circuit , in response to receiving [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor , increasing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

power drawn from the second sensor by arming the second sensor and , in response to receiving a movement indication from the second sensor , increasing the power drawn from the image - capture device by arming the image - capture device ; and a base unit [FEATURE ID: 8]

, powered by the non-AC power source , integrating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the electronic circuit , the non-AC power source second sensor and the image - capture device , and directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image - capture device . 2 . The integrated security arrangement of claim [FEATURE ID: 14]

1 , wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal [FEATURE ID: 18]

that arms [FEATURE ID: 13]

the second sensor in response to sensing the intrusion , and wherein the non-AC power source is a battery circuit . 3 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 1 , wherein , the electronic circuit processes the captured images and wherein the control of power drawn from the non-AC power source by the second sensor and the image - capture device includes powering up and down portions [FEATURE ID: 12]

of the image - capture device and the second sensor . 4 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 3 , further including a wall - mountable housing [FEATURE ID: 16]

to contain the base unit , the non-AC power source , the electronic circuit , the second sensor and the image - capture device . 5 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 1 , further including a housing [FEATURE ID: 8]

to contain the base unit , the second sensor , and the image - capture device . 6 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 1 , further including a communication device [FEATURE ID: 1]

to transmit wireless signals [FEATURE ID: 5]

to a remotely - located central controller [FEATURE ID: 1]

, and a housing to contain the communication device , the base unit , the second sensor , and the image - capture device . 7 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the second sensor is a passive infrared sensor [FEATURE ID: 16]

. 8 . The integrated security arrangement of claim 1 , wherein one of the second sensor and the image - capture device differentiates between images of a human and another moving object [FEATURE ID: 10]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7460149B1
Filed: 2007-05-28
Issued: 2008-12-02
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) KD Secure LLC     (Current Assignee) TIERRA VISTA GROUP LLC
Inventor(s): John J. Donovan, Danir Hussain

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

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, unreliable connection, recordation terminal, connection, high resolution digital camera, first storage device, first network interface, circuit, motion thresholdcamera, memory, device, computer, sensor, controller, network[FEATURE ID: 1] method, video surveillance system
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, capturing, transmitting, capturing, comprises, determiningreceiving, providing, monitoring, collecting, acquiring, maintaining, creating[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] storing, comprising, capturing, generating, performing, determining
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, extent, https server session, https clientobject, interface, application, agent, email, element, aggregator[FEATURE ID: 3] attribute storage area
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintainstream, store, record[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] video storage area
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, event, bandwidth, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG files, non-volatile removable memories, thumbsinformation, metadata, content, objects, images, video, tags[FEATURE ID: 5] video data, data, attribute, weights, surveillance cameras, events, video tips, short video clips
[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] comprisingincluding, containing, defining[TRANSITIVE ID: 6] representing
[FEATURE ID: 7] point, motion activitytime, position, distance, place, source[FEATURE ID: 7] date
[FEATURE ID: 8] interestimportance, time, events, reference, information, features, occurrence[FEATURE ID: 8] attribute weights, relevance, time stamp
[FEATURE ID: 9] processesfeatures, components, blocks, elements, tasks, actions, functions[FEATURE ID: 9] video analysis, subsets
[FEATURE ID: 10] dataactivity, time, interest[FEATURE ID: 10] external events
[FEATURE ID: 11] compact representationderivative, result, value[FEATURE ID: 11] multiple
[FEATURE ID: 12] eventsrecord, video, image, file, data, event, area[FEATURE ID: 12] associated, data storage area
[FEATURE ID: 13] motion objectstrends, events, changes[FEATURE ID: 13] future attribute weights
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection [FEATURE ID: 1]

, the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

: a point [FEATURE ID: 7]

of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 1]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 1]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 2]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 5]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 8]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the following processes [FEATURE ID: 9]

: determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 3]

of data [FEATURE ID: 10]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 11]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 12]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission fails ; opening an https client session ; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 3]

and server ; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 5]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity [FEATURE ID: 7]

; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 13]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 5]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

of storing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video data [FEATURE ID: 5]

, associated [TRANSITIVE ID: 12]

meta - data [FEATURE ID: 5]

, and associated attribute [TRANSITIVE ID: 5]

weights [FEATURE ID: 5]

from a video surveillance system [FEATURE ID: 1]

, the method comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video data from one or more surveillance cameras [FEATURE ID: 5]

; generating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

meta - data by performing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video analysis [FEATURE ID: 9]

on the video data from the surveillance cameras , the meta - data representing [TRANSITIVE ID: 6]

events [FEATURE ID: 5]

detected in the video data ; determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

attribute weights [FEATURE ID: 8]

, representing information about the relevance [FEATURE ID: 8]

of the meta - data ; generating intersections of two or more subsets [FEATURE ID: 9]

of the meta - data to generate intersection meta - data ; determining attribute weights associated with the intersection meta - data by multiplying the attribute weights for each subset of meta - data ; generating unions of two or more subsets of the meta - data to generate union meta - data ; determining attribute weights associated with the union meta - data by adding the attribute weights for each subset of meta - data and subtracting a multiple [FEATURE ID: 11]

of the attribute weights of each subset of meta - data ; changing the attribute weights based on external events [FEATURE ID: 10]

by computing future attribute weights [FEATURE ID: 13]

from past attribute weights by composing past attribute weights with external event weights ; storing the video data in a video storage area [FEATURE ID: 4]

; storing the meta - data , indexed by date [FEATURE ID: 7]

and time stamp [FEATURE ID: 8]

to the video data , in a meta - data storage area [FEATURE ID: 12]

; and storing the attribute weights in an attribute storage area [FEATURE ID: 3]

, wherein attribute weights for the intersection meta - data is calculated using the equation : W ( M 1 ∩ M 2 ) = W ( M 1 ) · W ( M 2 ) , wherein attribute weights for the union meta - data is calculated using the equation : W ( M 1 ∪ M 2 ) = W ( M 1 ) + W ( M 2 ) − W ( M 1 ) · W ( M 2 ) , and wherein M 1 and M 2 are two subsets of meta - data , W ( M 1 ) is an attribute weight associated with subset M 1 , W ( M 2 ) is an attribute weight associated with subset M 2 , W ( M 1 ∪ M 2 ) is a calculated attribute weight associated with the intersection meta - data of subset M 1 and subset M 2 , and W ( M 1 ∪ M 2 ) is a calculated attribute weight associated with the intersection meta - data of subset M 1 and subset M 2 . 2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the attribute weights are changed based on external events by computing future attribute weights from past attribute weights by composing past attribute weights with external event weights as shown in the equation : [ w 1 w 2 … w j ] = [ e 1 , e 2 , … , e n ] · [ w 1 w 2 … w i ] , where w j are future attribute weights , w i are past attribute weights , and e n are external event weights . 3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising : receiving video tips [FEATURE ID: 5]

from one or more anonymous sources , the video tips being short video clips [FEATURE ID: 5]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7460148B1
Filed: 2003-02-19
Issued: 2008-12-02
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Rockwell Collins Inc     (Current Assignee) Rockwell Collins Inc
Inventor(s): J. Edwin Clark, Glenn J. Horton, Vincent Castello, Daniel W. Wells

Title: Near real-time dissemination of surveillance video

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, apparatus, connection, server, high resolution digital camera, first network interface, circuitsystem, device, user, controller, computer, monitor, switch[FEATURE ID: 1] method, camera, airborne surveillance platform, user interface, network, facility, moveable surveillance platform
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, capturing, transmitting, capturing, determiningmonitoring, tracking, storing, generating, providing, maintaining, collecting[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] obtaining, presenting, receiving, regarding, processing, displaying
[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] maintainprovide, obtain, track[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] determine
[FEATURE ID: 4] high complexity continuous data, event, data, bandwidth, motion threshold, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG files, thumbsinformation, content, metadata, motion, images, frames, events[FEATURE ID: 4] video surveillance information, position, orientation telemetry, telemetry, movement, access, video information, actual image data
[TRANSITIVE ID: 5] comprising, comprisesincludes, including, compromising, having, containing, involves, by[TRANSITIVE ID: 5] comprising
[FEATURE ID: 6] recordation terminal, immediate transmission, https client session, acceptable amountinterface, indicia, estimate, receipt, location, acquisition, attachment[FEATURE ID: 6] user selection, information request
[FEATURE ID: 7] interestconsideration, focus, capture, analysis, search, reference[FEATURE ID: 7] view, surveillance
[FEATURE ID: 8] processeselements, sequences, blocks[FEATURE ID: 8] frames
[FEATURE ID: 9] extent, https clientportion, aspect, range, indication, item, object, embodiment[FEATURE ID: 9] period, airborne moveable surveillance platform, representation, claim, geographic region, outline
[FEATURE ID: 10] compact representationrepresentation, value, location, duration[FEATURE ID: 10] portion
[FEATURE ID: 11] eventsarea, view, frame[FEATURE ID: 11] field
[FEATURE ID: 12] first storage devicemonitor, viewfinder, screen[FEATURE ID: 12] map display
[FEATURE ID: 13] motion activitymotion, orientation, displacement[FEATURE ID: 13] operation
[FEATURE ID: 14] motion objectsframes, changes, directions, tracks, regions, images, objects[FEATURE ID: 14] fields, points
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 1]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 4]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 5]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 6]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 1]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 2]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 4]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 7]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 5]

the following processes [FEATURE ID: 8]

: determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 9]

of data [FEATURE ID: 4]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 10]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 11]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 6]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 6]

; opening an https server session ; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 9]

and server [FEATURE ID: 1]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount [FEATURE ID: 6]

of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 4]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 12]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity [FEATURE ID: 13]

; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 14]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 4]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

of obtaining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

and presenting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video surveillance information [FEATURE ID: 4]

, comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 5]

: over a period [FEATURE ID: 9]

of time , receiving [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

position [FEATURE ID: 4]

and orientation telemetry [FEATURE ID: 4]

regarding [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

operation [FEATURE ID: 13]

of a camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

mounted on an airborne moveable surveillance platform [FEATURE ID: 9]

; processing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the telemetry [FEATURE ID: 4]

over the period of time to determine [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

a plurality of earth - oriented fields [FEATURE ID: 14]

of view [FEATURE ID: 7]

of the camera during movement [FEATURE ID: 4]

of the airborne surveillance platform [FEATURE ID: 1]

over the period of time ; displaying [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

over time , representations of the determined earth - oriented fields of view of the camera on a map display [FEATURE ID: 12]

on a user interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; detecting a user selection [FEATURE ID: 6]

of a displayed representation [FEATURE ID: 9]

of at least one field [FEATURE ID: 11]

of view via the user interface , the selected representation corresponding to a portion [FEATURE ID: 10]

of the period of time ; formulating an information request [FEATURE ID: 6]

indicating the corresponding portion of the period of time ; sending the information request via a network [FEATURE ID: 1]

to a facility [FEATURE ID: 1]

having access [FEATURE ID: 4]

to stored video information [FEATURE ID: 4]

received from the camera , over the period of time ; receiving one or more frames [FEATURE ID: 8]

of video information generated by the camera , from the facility via the network , the one or more frames containing actual image data [FEATURE ID: 4]

taken by the camera during the corresponding portion of the period of time and corresponding to the user selected representation of one or more fields of view ; and displaying the received one or more frames of video information to the user . 2 . The method as in claim [FEATURE ID: 9]

1 , wherein the step of displaying the representations of the determined earth - oriented fields of view of the camera on the map display on the user interface comprises : displaying a map of a geographic region [FEATURE ID: 9]

under surveillance [FEATURE ID: 7]

by the moveable surveillance platform [FEATURE ID: 1]

; and overlaying outlines of the determined earth - oriented fields of view of the camera , for a plurality of points [FEATURE ID: 14]

in time , on the displayed map . 3 . The method as in claim 2 , wherein the step of detecting the user selection comprises receiving a user selection of at least one displayed outline [FEATURE ID: 9]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US20080284580A1
Filed: 2007-05-16
Issued: 2008-11-20
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Honeywell International Inc     (Current Assignee) Ademco Inc
Inventor(s): Thomas S. Babich, Dean Mason

Title: Video alarm verification

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, circuitdevice, system, computer, means, process, camera, mechanism[FEATURE ID: 1] method, cell phone, step, central panel, location
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, comprising, comprisesproviding, receiving, performing, determining, generating, creating, using[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] comprising, detecting, acquiring, opening, opening, monitoring
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, events, https client session, https server sessionevent, alarm, image, object, application, endpoint, opening[FEATURE ID: 3] alarm zone, alarm event detection device, alarm entry delay
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintaintransmit, provide, convey, send, deliver, transfer[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] communicate
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, data, compact representation, bandwidth, motion threshold, motion objects, format files, JPEG files, thumbscontent, video, images, monitoring, activity, metadata, information[FEATURE ID: 5] alarm events, video data, alarm event detection, alarm event detection notification, notification, central station, multiple alarm zones, video monitoring devices
[FEATURE ID: 6] recordation terminalentry, location, termination[FEATURE ID: 6] exit point
[FEATURE ID: 7] connection, https client, first storage devicemodem, camera, memory, cpu, controller, receiver, keyboard[FEATURE ID: 7] end user, keypad
[FEATURE ID: 8] capturing, transmitting, capturing, determiningdetecting, tracking, sensing, displaying, imaging, storing, receiving[FEATURE ID: 8] monitoring, verifying
[FEATURE ID: 9] event, extent, acceptable amountitem, area, element, object, indicator, alarm, incident[FEATURE ID: 9] alarm event, entry
[FEATURE ID: 10] interesttime, subject, reference[FEATURE ID: 10] response
[FEATURE ID: 11] processesstages, actions, blocks, procedures, activities, functions, phases[FEATURE ID: 11] steps
[FEATURE ID: 12] immediate transmissiontriggering, detection, transmission[FEATURE ID: 12] signal
[FEATURE ID: 13] high resolution digital cameraconnection, port, circuit, network[FEATURE ID: 13] communication session
[FEATURE ID: 14] first network interfacedisplay, network, screen[FEATURE ID: 14] video zone list
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 6]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 7]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 8]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 8]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 9]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 10]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 8]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the following processes [FEATURE ID: 11]

: determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 8]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 9]

of data [FEATURE ID: 5]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 3]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 12]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 7]

and server ; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount [FEATURE ID: 9]

of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 5]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 13]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 7]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 14]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity ; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 5]

with analysis artifacts ; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 5]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for video monitoring [TRANSITIVE ID: 8]

an alarm zone [FEATURE ID: 3]

in a perimeter , border and / or building , and automatically verifying [TRANSITIVE ID: 8]

by end - user cell phone whether alarm events [FEATURE ID: 5]

detected in the alarm zone are true or false alarm events , the method comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the steps [FEATURE ID: 11]

of : detecting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an alarm event [FEATURE ID: 9]

in the alarm zone ; acquiring [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

video data [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the detected alarm event in response [FEATURE ID: 10]

to the detecting ; and opening [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

a communication session [FEATURE ID: 13]

with an end - user by cell phone [FEATURE ID: 1]

to communicate [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

the alarm event detection [FEATURE ID: 5]

to the end - user including forwarding the acquired video data so the end user [FEATURE ID: 7]

can assess the captured alarm event and verify . 2 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the step [FEATURE ID: 1]

of opening [FEATURE ID: 2]

includes that the end - user verifies using a keypad [FEATURE ID: 7]

of the cell phone . 3 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the step of acquiring video data is triggered by a signal [FEATURE ID: 12]

generated by an alarm event detection device [FEATURE ID: 3]

located in the alarm zone . 4 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the step of opening further includes initiating an alarm entry delay [FEATURE ID: 3]

at alarm event detection , to delay communicating alarm event detection notification [FEATURE ID: 5]

. 5 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the alarm entry delay may be further extended where the communication session is opened but alarm event is not yet verified . 6 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the step of opening is controlled by a central panel [FEATURE ID: 1]

at the perimeter , border and / or building . 7 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the alarm zone is an entry [FEATURE ID: 9]

/ exit point [FEATURE ID: 6]

within the perimeter , border and / or building . 8 . The method for monitoring an alarm zone as set forth in claim 5 , wherein notification [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the detected alarm event is automatically communicated to a central station [FEATURE ID: 5]

monitoring location [FEATURE ID: 1]

that operates to remotely monitor the perimeter , border and / or building . 9 . The method for monitoring [FEATURE ID: 2]

as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the perimeter , border and / or building includes multiple alarm zones [FEATURE ID: 5]

, and further includes a step of generating a video zone list [FEATURE ID: 14]

to identify video monitoring devices [FEATURE ID: 5]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US7450172B2
Filed: 2003-03-11
Issued: 2008-11-11
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd     (Current Assignee) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Inventor(s): Jae-Gab Lee, Young-Kyu Kim

Title: Bar-type wireless communication terminal and rotary type hinge device thereof

[TRANSITIVE ID: 1] comprisingincluding, incorporating, containing, providing, with, compromising, of[TRANSITIVE ID: 1] comprising, having
[FEATURE ID: 2] PORTterminal, top, point[FEATURE ID: 2] side
[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] coupledmounted, supported, installed, provided, secured, configured, connected[TRANSITIVE ID: 3] arranged, disposed, coupled, allowed
[FEATURE ID: 4] connection, high resolution digital camera, first storage device, first network interface, circuitcontroller, housing, battery, memory, camera, monitor, display[FEATURE ID: 4] camera lens unit, first keypad, second keypad, display device
[FEATURE ID: 5] processescomponents, elements, steps[FEATURE ID: 5] portions
[FEATURE ID: 6] extent, acceptable amountend, area, extension, item, entirety, expanse, instance[FEATURE ID: 6] upper end, claim
[FEATURE ID: 7] motion thresholdcondition, button, user, position, status, signal, state[FEATURE ID: 7] manner, certain elastic force
1 . A method for operating an apparatus for to reliably maintain high complexity continuous data over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 1]

: a point of recordation terminal ( PORT [FEATURE ID: 2]

) coupled [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

to a connection [FEATURE ID: 4]

, the method comprising capturing , and transmitting , an event of interest , wherein capturing an event of interest comprises the following processes [FEATURE ID: 5]

: determining when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 6]

of data associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events ; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission fails ; opening an https client session ; opening an https server session ; connecting between an https client and server ; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount [FEATURE ID: 6]

of bandwidth becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 4]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 4]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 7]

1 . A bar - type wireless communication terminal comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 1]

: a lower body having [TRANSITIVE ID: 1]

a camera lens unit [FEATURE ID: 4]

arranged [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

in its one side [FEATURE ID: 2]

, a first keypad [FEATURE ID: 4]

arranged in its front side and a second keypad [FEATURE ID: 4]

arranged in its rear side ; and an upper body having a display device [FEATURE ID: 4]

disposed [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

in its front side , said upper body being coupled [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

to an upper end [FEATURE ID: 6]

of the lower body in such a manner [FEATURE ID: 7]

that the upper body is allowed [TRANSITIVE ID: 3]

to rotate in a twisted direction with respect to a rotation axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the lower body ; and further comprising : a first hinge base fixed in the lower body , the first hinge base having a hinge housing and first coupling arms extended laterally in opposite directions from a lower end of the hinge housing , the hinge housing defining a vertically extended receiving space ; and a second hinge base fixed in the upper body , the second hinge base having a rotating member and second coupling arms extended laterally in opposite directions from an upper end of the rotating member , the rotating member being received inside the hinge housing to rotate therein relative to a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction of the first hinge base . 2 . The bar - type wireless communication terminal as set forth in claim [FEATURE ID: 6]

1 , further comprising : a first hinge cam vertically reciprocating inside the hinge housing by receiving a certain elastic force [FEATURE ID: 7]

, the first . hinge cam being formed with a receiving hole for allowing the rotating member to pass therethrough , the first hinge cam also being formed at its end with ridge - shaped and valley - shaped portions [FEATURE ID: 5]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US20080272902A1
Filed: 2005-03-15
Issued: 2008-11-06
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Chudd International Holdings Ltd     (Current Assignee) Chubb International Holdings Ltd ; Carrier Corp ; Chudd International Holdings Ltd
Inventor(s): Pengju Kang, Alan M. Finn, Robert N. Tomastik, Thomas M. Gillis, Ziyou Xiong, Lin Lin, Pei-Yuan Peng

Title: Nuisance Alarm Filter

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, server, bandwidth, high resolution digital camera, first network interface, circuitdevice, monitor, network, computer, controller, system, user[FEATURE ID: 1] security system, verification sensor, alarm system, remote monitoring center, video content analyzer, method
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, comprisingimplementing, providing, using, incorporating, involving, containing, having[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] including, comprising
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, https client session, https server sessionapplication, interface, alarm, agent, event, alert, opening[FEATURE ID: 3] alarm filter, environment, alarm panel
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintain, capturing, transmitting, determiningdetecting, receive, monitoring, provide, providing, storing, sensing[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] detect, receiving, produce
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, data, analysis artifacts, format files, JPEG files, thumbsinformation, events, feedback, content, sensors, signals, messages[FEATURE ID: 5] nuisance alarms, sensor signals, verification sensor signals, alarms, monitoring conditions, verification sensor signals representative, conditions, raw sensor data
[FEATURE ID: 6] recordation terminal, first storage deviceinterface, processor, port, terminal, controller, network, contact[FEATURE ID: 6] verification input, communication
[FEATURE ID: 7] connectionmonitor, network, device, computer, server, controller, router[FEATURE ID: 7] data processor, video sensor
[FEATURE ID: 8] eventindicator, alarm, image, input, alert, information, error[FEATURE ID: 8] opinion output
[FEATURE ID: 9] interesttime, subject, reference, occurrence, exposure[FEATURE ID: 9] response
[TRANSITIVE ID: 10] capturingmonitoring, selecting, determining, processing[TRANSITIVE ID: 10] modifying
[FEATURE ID: 11] processescomponents, devices, processors, elements[FEATURE ID: 11] sensors
[FEATURE ID: 12] extentembodiment, aspect, item[FEATURE ID: 12] claim
[FEATURE ID: 13] compact representationvalue, result, status, conclusion, likelihood, certainty, perception[FEATURE ID: 13] relative indication, truth
[FEATURE ID: 14] eventscapture, view, image[FEATURE ID: 14] monitor
[FEATURE ID: 15] https clientapplication, engine, operator[FEATURE ID: 15] algorithm
[FEATURE ID: 16] motion thresholdcondition, signal, sensor, scene[FEATURE ID: 16] different parameter
[FEATURE ID: 17] motion objectsactivities, movements, objects, changes[FEATURE ID: 17] alarm events
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection , the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: a point of recordation terminal [FEATURE ID: 6]

( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 7]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 4]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 8]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 9]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 10]

an event of interest comprises the following processes [FEATURE ID: 11]

: determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 12]

of data [FEATURE ID: 5]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 13]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 14]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 15]

and server [FEATURE ID: 1]

; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 1]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 6]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 16]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity ; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 17]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 5]

1 . An alarm filter [FEATURE ID: 3]

for filtering out nuisance alarms [FEATURE ID: 5]

in a security system [FEATURE ID: 1]

including [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

a plurality of sensors [FEATURE ID: 11]

to monitor [TRANSITIVE ID: 14]

an environment [FEATURE ID: 3]

and detect [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

alarm events [FEATURE ID: 17]

, the alarm filter comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: sensor inputs for receiving [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

sensor signals [FEATURE ID: 5]

from the plurality of sensors ; means for selectively modifying [TRANSITIVE ID: 10]

the sensor signals to produce [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

verified sensor signals ; and sensor outputs for communicating the verified sensor signals to an alarm panel [FEATURE ID: 3]

. 2 . The alarm filter of claim [FEATURE ID: 12]

1 , and further comprising : a verification input [FEATURE ID: 6]

for receiving verification sensor signals [FEATURE ID: 5]

from a verification sensor [FEATURE ID: 1]

, wherein the sensors signals are selectively modified as a function of the verification sensor signals and the sensor signals to produce the verified sensor signals . 3 . The alarm filter of claim 1 , wherein the means for selectively modifying the sensor signals produces opinions about the sensor signals as a function of the sensor signals and produces the verified sensor signals as a function of the opinions . 4 . The alarm filter of claim 1 , wherein the means for selectively modifying the sensor signals to produce verified sensor signals comprises a data processor [FEATURE ID: 7]

in communication [FEATURE ID: 6]

with the sensor inputs and outputs . 5 . The alarm filter of claim 1 , wherein the means for selectively modifying the sensor signals to produce the verified sensor signals comprises a data processor using an algorithm [FEATURE ID: 15]

to generate the verified sensor signals . 6 . The alarm filter of claim 4 , wherein the algorithm forms opinions about the sensor signals and selectively modifies the sensor signals as a function of the opinions to produce the verified sensor signals . 7 . An alarm system [FEATURE ID: 1]

for monitoring an environment to detect alarm events and communicate alarms [FEATURE ID: 5]

based on the alarm events to a remote monitoring center [FEATURE ID: 1]

, the alarm system comprising : a plurality of sensors for monitoring conditions [FEATURE ID: 5]

associated with the environment and producing sensor signals in response [FEATURE ID: 9]

to alarm events ; a verification sensor for monitoring conditions associated with the environment and producing verification sensor signals representative [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the conditions [FEATURE ID: 5]

; and an alarm filter in communication with the plurality of sensors to produce an opinion output [FEATURE ID: 8]

as a function of the sensor signals and the verification sensor signals . 8 . The alarm system of claim 7 , wherein verified sensor signals are produced as a function of the opinion output . 9 . The alarm system of claims 7 , and further comprising : an alarm panel in communication with the alarm filter . 10 . The alarm system of claim 7 , wherein the verification sensor comprises a video sensor [FEATURE ID: 7]

. 11 . The alarm system of claim 10 , wherein the alarm system includes a video content analyzer [FEATURE ID: 1]

for receiving raw sensor data [FEATURE ID: 5]

from the video sensor and generating the verification sensor signals as a function of the raw sensor data . 12 . The alarm system of claim 7 , wherein the verification sensor senses a different parameter [FEATURE ID: 16]

than the plurality of sensors to monitor conditions associated with the environment . 13 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for reducing the occurrence of nuisance alarms generated by an alarm system including a plurality of sensors for monitoring conditions associated with an environment , the method comprising : receiving sensor signals from the plurality of sensors representing conditions associated with the environment ; processing the sensor signals to produce an opinion output as a function of the sensor signals , wherein the opinion output represents a relative indication [FEATURE ID: 13]

about a truth [FEATURE ID: 13]








Targeted Patent:

Patent: US8558888B2
Filed: 2009-02-27
Issued: 2013-10-15
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) Third Iris Corp     (Current Assignee) Viaas Inc ; Third Iris Corp
Inventor(s): Steven Goddard Roskowski

Title: Bandwidth shaping client to capture, transform, cache, and upload images from a remote point of recordation to a network service

 
Cross Reference / Shared Meaning between the Lines
Charted Against:

Patent: US20080259179A1
Filed: 2005-03-07
Issued: 2008-10-23
Patent Holder: (Original Assignee) International Business Machines Corp     (Current Assignee) International Business Machines Corp
Inventor(s): Andrew William Senior, Sharathchandra Pankanti, Arun Hampapur, Lisa Marie Brown, Ying-Li Tian

Title: Automatic Multiscale Image Acquisition from a Steerable Camera

[FEATURE ID: 1] method, first storage device, first network interface, circuitcontroller, computer, camera, process, program, user, means[FEATURE ID: 1] method, master camera, steerable slave camera, step, camera control policy
[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] operating, transmitting, capturing, comprises, determiningproviding, monitoring, generating, receiving, tracking, registering, displaying[TRANSITIVE ID: 2] acquiring, comprising, calibrating, obtaining, using, identifying
[FEATURE ID: 3] apparatus, https client session, https server session, https client, acceptable amountagent, application, event, interface, asset, endpoint, email[FEATURE ID: 3] object
[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] maintainacquire, receive, track, capture, record, gather, provide[TRANSITIVE ID: 4] obtain
[FEATURE ID: 5] high complexity continuous data, interest, data, bandwidth, format files, JPEG filescontent, information, images, capture, video, pictures, motion[FEATURE ID: 5] multi-scale images, interest, view, multi-scale video, parameter
[FEATURE ID: 6] unreliable connection, compact representationdistance, duration, range, space, cost, type, period[FEATURE ID: 6] length, time, chance, speed
[TRANSITIVE ID: 7] comprisingcomprises, being, includes[TRANSITIVE ID: 7] comprise
[FEATURE ID: 8] connectioncamera, network, lens, vehicle, controller, computer, system[FEATURE ID: 8] single camera, steerable camera
[FEATURE ID: 9] capturing, immediate transmissionreceiving, sensing, detecting, registering, monitoring, imaging[FEATURE ID: 9] tracking
[FEATURE ID: 10] eventelement, image, item, area, individual, object[FEATURE ID: 10] available camera
[FEATURE ID: 11] extentrange, embodiment, volume, aspect, portion, item, area[FEATURE ID: 11] claim, size, number
[FEATURE ID: 12] eventsarea, view, stream, frame, video, result, image[FEATURE ID: 12] field, calibration
[FEATURE ID: 13] high resolution digital camerasensor, controller, lens[FEATURE ID: 13] slave camera
[FEATURE ID: 14] motion thresholdlocation, motion, position[FEATURE ID: 14] type
[FEATURE ID: 15] motion activitydepth, motion, length, volume, speed, size, resolution[FEATURE ID: 15] orientation, location, zoom parameters
[FEATURE ID: 16] motion objects, thumbsimages, frames, events, locations, pixels, people, points[FEATURE ID: 16] objects, times
[FEATURE ID: 17] analysis artifactssensors, markers, pixels[FEATURE ID: 17] steerable cameras
1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for operating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an apparatus [FEATURE ID: 3]

for to reliably maintain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

high complexity continuous data [FEATURE ID: 5]

over a low bandwidth and unreliable connection [FEATURE ID: 6]

, the apparatus comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

: a point of recordation terminal ( PORT ) coupled to a connection [FEATURE ID: 8]

, the method comprising capturing [FEATURE ID: 9]

, and transmitting [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

, an event [FEATURE ID: 10]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 5]

, wherein capturing [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an event of interest comprises [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the following processes : determining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

when an event of interest occurs ; selecting an extent [FEATURE ID: 11]

of data [FEATURE ID: 5]

associated with the event of interest ; efficiently recording the selected extent of data ; deriving a compact representation [FEATURE ID: 6]

of the event of interest ; and storing the recorded events [FEATURE ID: 12]

; wherein transmitting an event of interest comprises the following processes : transmitting immediately when directed and storing if immediate transmission [FEATURE ID: 9]

fails ; opening an https client session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; opening an https server session [FEATURE ID: 3]

; connecting between an https client [FEATURE ID: 3]

and server ; transmitting with link level encryption ; storing recorded events of interest locally ; and transmitting when an acceptable amount [FEATURE ID: 3]

of bandwidth [FEATURE ID: 5]

becomes available . 2 . A point of recordation terminal comprising : a high resolution digital camera [FEATURE ID: 13]

; a first storage device [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a first network interface [FEATURE ID: 1]

; a circuit [FEATURE ID: 1]

controlled by software to signal a motion threshold [FEATURE ID: 14]

; a circuit controlled by software to measure motion activity [FEATURE ID: 15]

; a circuit controlled by software to track motion objects [FEATURE ID: 16]

with analysis artifacts [FEATURE ID: 17]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode h ( dot ) 264 format files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit controlled by software to encode JPEG files [FEATURE ID: 5]

; a circuit to write to non-volatile removable memories ; a circuit to generate thumbs [FEATURE ID: 16]

1 . A method [FEATURE ID: 1]

for acquiring [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

multi-scale images [FEATURE ID: 5]

, the method comprising [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

: tracking [TRANSITIVE ID: 9]

an object [FEATURE ID: 3]

of interest [FEATURE ID: 5]

moving through a field [FEATURE ID: 12]

of view [FEATURE ID: 5]

of a master camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

; calibrating [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

a steerable slave camera [FEATURE ID: 1]

to obtain [TRANSITIVE ID: 4]

multi-scale images of the object of interest ; steering the slave camera [FEATURE ID: 13]

in accordance with the calibration [FEATURE ID: 12]

; and obtaining [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

multi-scale video [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the object of interest using [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

the slave camera . 2 . The method of claim [FEATURE ID: 11]

1 , wherein the master camera and the slave camera comprise [TRANSITIVE ID: 7]

a single camera [FEATURE ID: 8]

. 3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the step [FEATURE ID: 1]

of identifying [TRANSITIVE ID: 2]

an object further comprises identifying a plurality of objects [FEATURE ID: 16]

and the step calibrating a steerable slave camera comprises calibrating a plurality of steerable cameras [FEATURE ID: 17]

, the method further comprising using a camera control policy [FEATURE ID: 1]

to associate steerable cameras with objects of interest so as to optimize at least one objective function . 4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the objective function comprises the imaged size [FEATURE ID: 11]

of an object , the orientation [FEATURE ID: 15]

of an object , the location [FEATURE ID: 15]

of an object , the length [FEATURE ID: 6]

of time [FEATURE ID: 6]

an object is viewed , the number [FEATURE ID: 11]

of times [FEATURE ID: 16]

an object is viewed , the chance [FEATURE ID: 6]

of viewing an object before that object is no longer visible , the speed [FEATURE ID: 6]

of the object , the type [FEATURE ID: 14]

of the object or any other measured parameter [FEATURE ID: 5]

of the object , the time taken to steer an available camera [FEATURE ID: 10]

to view the object and combinations thereof . 5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of calibrating the steerable slave camera comprises generating at least one of the pan , the tilt and the zoom parameters [FEATURE ID: 15]

for the steerable camera [FEATURE ID: 8]