Patent ID: 7546603
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A video surveillance apparatus comprising: a digital network; a digital camera and computer system coupled to the digital network; a biometrics unit; at least one viewer workstation connected to said digital network and dynamic link libraries; and an interface connecting said digital camera and computer system, said digital network, said biometrics unit, and said dynamic link libraries, wherein said dynamic link libraries include: a functionality added unit, a first initialize unit, a startcapture unit, a stopcapture unit, a startplaying unit, a stopplaying unit, a getframe unit, a makedatakey unit, a getkeyseed unit, a cohu zoom lens control unit, a second initialize unit, a sendcommand unit, a zoomfocusstop unit, a zoom unit, a calibrate cohu unit, a zoomto unit, and a pelco pan and tilt control unit, wherein said biometrics unit is a system for collecting and analyzing biometrics data in humans, wherein said system for collecting and analyzing biometrics data in humans is an automated fingerprint identification system and a personal identification system in which people are recognized by their own unique corporal or behavioral characteristics.