Patent ID: 7342489
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control unit for utilization within a surveillance system that includes (a) a sensor unit coupled to one or more sensor devices, the sensor unit operative to provide an event record in response to detection of an object by a sensor device in an area under surveillance, the event record comprising data relating to characteristics of a detected object in the area under surveillance, and (b) a data unit operative to receive event records, incorporate the event records into a surveillance database, and issue commands to sensor devices via the sensor unit, comprising:: a memory for the storage of data representative of a surveillance model of the area under surveillance; a user interface for receiving operator commands with respect to a sensor device in the surveillance system and for outputting information corresponding to the surveillance model to a display device; a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being configured to receive user input from the user interface and forward a command to a data unit for controlling a sensor device, the processor being further configured to retrieve surveillance data of an area under surveillance that has been published by the data unit, and the processor being further configured to display information derived from an event record obtained from a data unit in association with information corresponding to the surveillance model.