Patent ID: 9036028
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G06K,G06T,G07C,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A surveillance system comprising: a video surveillance subsystem comprising a plurality of cameras each having a field of view, each field of view segmented into a plurality of predefined static camera sub-regions; a radio-frequency identification subsystem comprising a plurality of radio-frequency stations, each capable of detecting radio-frequency identification tags within a respective operational radius; a tracking module for chronologically representing, based on data received from the video surveillance subsystem and the radio-frequency identification subsystem, physical locations of objects tracked by the surveillance system as the objects move among the predefined static sub-regions of the segmented fields of view of the cameras and the operational radii of the stations; an association module in communication with the video surveillance subsystem and the radio-frequency identification subsystem for inferring, over time, associations among one or more of the predefined static camera sub-regions of the segmented fields of view and one or more of the operational radii of the radio-frequency stations from data captured by the video surveillance subsystem and data captured by the radio-frequency identification subsystem, the associations based at least in part on repeated detection of tracked objects in both the one or more predefined static camera sub-regions of the segmented fields of view and the one or more operational radii at substantially the same time; a data storage module for storing rules relating to the objects, wherein at least one of the rules comprises two or more primitive events; and an alarm module, responsive to the data storage module and the tracking module, for: