Patent ID: 8681232

Claim:
A method for adjusting camera settings as a function of associated video analytics data output, the method comprising: analyzing by a processing unit visual content captured from a scene by a camera in an initial pose setting to determine a predicted occurrence of a transaction associated with the visual content; comparing by the processing unit the predicted transaction occurrence to data of actual transactions associated with the visual content to generate a performance value for the initial pose as a function of a difference between the predicted transaction and an actual transaction in the data of actual occurrences; iteratively repeating, for each of at least one more different pose positions, the analyzing by the processing unit visual content captured from each scene by the camera in each of the at least one more pose settings to determine predicted occurrences of transactions associated with the visual content, and the comparing by the processing unit the each predicted transaction occurrences to the data of actual transactions associated with the visual content to generate performance values for each of the at least one more poses as the function of differences between the each predicted transactions and actual transactions in the data; and choosing by the processing unit an optimized pose from the initial and at least one more different camera poses that has the best performance value, wherein a camera controller may place the camera in the optimum pose for use in monitoring the scene and generating the primitives of interest associated with the transactions.