Patent ID: 9536308
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q,G06T

Claim:
1. A method of detecting irregular events from acquired data, the method comprising: acquiring data from a data acquisition system, said data comprising video data; identifying, on a frame-by-frame basis, objects in the video data: automatedly producing, with the acquisition system, analytics data from the identified objects; formatting the analytics data into a report notification pursuant to a report template; extracting values of report measures from the report notification; transmitting the extracted values across a communications interface to a measures database; transmitting metadata regarding classes of report measures across a user interface to the measures database; storing the extracted values and the metadata in the measures database; calculating a distribution for the values of each of the report measures in accordance with the metadata for the class associated with each report measure; comparing extracted values to the calculated distributions; determining if an irregular event has occurred based upon the comparison of the extracted values to the calculated distributions; and producing an irregularity alert if an irregular event is determined.