Patent ID: 8253792

Claim:
A safety monitoring system for a workspace area, the workspace area related to a region having automated moveable equipment, the system comprising: a plurality of vision-based imaging devices capturing time-synchronized image data of the workspace area, each vision-based imaging device repeatedly capturing respective time synchronized image data of the workspace area from a respective viewpoint that is different from the other respective vision-based imaging devices; a visual processing unit for analyzing the time-synchronized image data generated by the plurality of vision-based imaging devices; wherein the visual processing unit processes the captured time-synchronized image data for identifying a human from a non-human object within the workspace area by integrating one or more patterns in each of the time-synchronized image data, the visual processing unit further determining potential interactions between a human and the automated moveable equipment, the visual processing unit further generating control signals for enabling dynamic reconfiguration of the automated moveable equipment based on the potential interactions between the human and the automated moveable equipment in the workspace area, the dynamic reconfiguration including adjusting movements of the automated moveable equipment to avoid potential interactions between the human and the automated moveable equipment in the workspace area without stopping the automated equipment.