Patent ID: 8063936
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06T,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for providing immersive surveillance of a site, said system comprising: a plurality of cameras each producing a respective raw video of a respective portion of the site; a processing component receiving said raw video from the cameras and generating therefrom processed video; a visualization engine coupled to the processing component and receiving said processed video therefrom, said visualization engine rendering real-time images corresponding to a view of the site in which at least a portion of said processed video is overlaid onto a rendering of an image based on a computer model of the site, the visualization engine displaying said images in real time to a viewer; and said processing component comprising first and second filter modules, the second filter module processing video received as output from the first filter module; and a controller component controlling all transmission of video from the first filter module to said second filter module; and wherein the computer model is a 3-D model of the site.