Patent ID: 8525678

Claim:
A behavior monitoring system, comprising: a storage unit which stores a plurality of pieces of identification information, each piece of identification information respectively identifying a corresponding one of a plurality of persons and one of a plurality of prohibited behavior conditions indicating behaviors respectively prohibited to said plurality of persons in an area and being correlated with interrelationships of the persons; an entry monitoring unit configured to monitor as specific persons persons which enter said area, and to judge whether or not a specific piece of identification information identifying said specific persons exists in said plurality of pieces of identification information stored in said storage unit, and to specify said interrelationships of said specific persons; a behavior monitoring unit configured to monitor, based on said specific piece of identification information, said specific persons which behave in said area and to generate a piece of behavior information indicating behaviors of said specific persons, when a piece of identification information coincident with said specific piece of identification information exists in said plurality of pieces of identification information; and a behavior judging unit configured to select specific prohibited behavior conditions corresponding to said specific piece of identification information from said plurality of prohibited behavior conditions stored in said storage unit based on said specified interrelationships of said specific persons and to produce an alarm when behaviors indicated by said specific prohibited behavior conditions coincide with behaviors indicated by the piece of said behavior information.