Patent ID: 7369160
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera system, comprising: a camera to monitor a location, the camera including an image sensor to capture real-time image data at the monitored location; a plurality of external devices having web browsers and located at respective locations remote from the camera, the camera transmitting said real-time captured image data through a network to said plurality of external devices; a memory that stores a plurality of image processing applets that respectively perform different feature extraction types of image processing on said captured real-time image data, wherein said plurality of image processing applets run on the web browsers of said plurality of external devices; and a web server that transmits said real-time captured image data from said camera through said network to said plurality of external devices, and transmits respective image processing applets that respectively perform different feature extraction types of image processing from said memory through said network to respective external devices, wherein performing of the image processing on the captured real-time image data by the respective image processing applets transmitted to the respective external devices is not dependent on a control condition of the camera, and wherein said respective image processing applets that respectively perform different feature extraction types of image processing extract features from said captured real-time image data in said web browser.