Patent ID: 9412269
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,G08B,G08G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of monitoring whether an object of interest is passing through an area within a field of view of a scene observed by a video camera, the method comprising: receiving video data representing the field of view of the scene observed by the video camera; using video analytics to track an object of interest represented in the video data, the object of interest corresponding to image pixels in the video data; configuring a detection zone within the area, the detection zone including an entrance side and an exit side positioned opposite to each other and thereby defining opposite sides of the detection zone; and signaling an occurrence of an event when the tracked object of interest is continually present in the detection zone during a period beginning when the tracked object of interest enters the detection zone on the entrance side and ending when the tracked object of interest leaves the detection zone from the exit side, wherein the video analytics determines whether the object of interest enters or leaves the detection zone by determining whether an image pixel representing the object of interest is present in the detection zone.