Patent ID: 7940963
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A monitoring system comprising: an image capturing section that captures a motion image of a monitor region; a condition storing section that stores a condition of an object to be extracted from the motion image captured by the image capturing section; a matching judging section that judges whether an object that matches the condition exists in the motion image captured by the image capturing section; an object region identifying section that identifies an object region that includes the object that matches the condition, if the matching judging section has judged that the object that matches the condition exists; an output section that outputs an image of the object region, if the matching judging section has judged that the object that matches the condition exists; an image retaining section that retains an image of a region other than the object region, if the matching judging section has judged that the object that matches the condition exists; and an output control section that controls the output section to output the image of the region other than the object region retained in the image retaining section, if it is judged that the image of the region other than the object region retained in the image retaining section is to be transmitted, after the image retaining section retained the image of the region other than the object region.