Patent ID: 8881012

Claim:
A video image storage and retrieval system comprising (a) a video logger for receiving and storing live surveillance video signal streams and having a device for electronic tagging of video images in said streams to locate by timecode video image features of interest according to predetermined criteria, (b) a timeline display device for receiving video images with electronic tags and displaying for said images a first timeline image representing the total duration of a program and having a plurality of timeline indicia and additional visible indicia dividing said first timeline into uniformly spaced segments, each of a variable and selectable pre-determined duration, and a plurality of further timelines, each being representative of a feature of selected ones of said video images and located by said tags, said further timelines being vertically aligned with said first timeline to display only those tagged images occurring within a selected one of said segments, and (c) Said tagged images of said further timelines representing a subject selected from the group consisting of telemetry, heat and motion, (d) a selector device including a cursor for vertical alignment with corresponding times in each of said first timeline and said further timelines to select one of said segments and selectively displaying video images from one of said further timelines in said selected segment at the location of said cursor.