Patent ID: 7535353

Claim:
A surveillance system for detecting an illegal object, comprising: an image-pickup unit for taking an image of a predetermined area; an object detection unit for detecting information concerning objects pictured in the image based on of said image taken by said image-pickup unit; radio terminal units held by legitimate objects; radio reception units for receiving signals transmitted by radio from said radio terminal units present in said predetermined area; a terminal detection unit for detecting information concerning said radio terminal units based on of the signals received by said radio reception units; an illegal object detection unit for detecting information concerning an illegal object based on of the information detected by said object detection unit and the information detected by said terminal detection units; and an illegality processing apparatus for executing a predetermined process when a presence of said illegal object is detected by said illegal object detection unit, wherein the predetermined process includes providing notice of said illegal object by performing at least one of starting recording of said illegal object by a video recording unit and issuing an alarm by an alarm unit.