Patent ID: 6633327
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An environmental monitoring system for monitoring workers in a hazardous work area, said apparatus comprising:(a) a video source for providing a video image signal of said workers in the work area; (b) individual sensors for said workers in the work area remote from said video source for providing a signal representative of a measurement of at least one predetermined parameter for said workers in the work area; (c) a gen/lock overlay unit connected to said video source and said individual sensors for converting said sensor signal from said individual sensors to a visual video representation of said sensor measurement and for combining said video image signal and said visual video representation, wherein said visual video representation is overlaid onto said video image of the work area; and (d) a video display connected to said gen/lock overlay unit for displaying said visual video representation overlaid onto said video image of the work area.