Patent ID: 8854474

Claim:
A method for real-time investigation of objects detected in an area monitored by a closed circuit television (CCTV) system, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of video streams of the monitored area from one or more cameras; receiving by a computing device a query initiated by a user of the CCTV system upon becoming aware that a suspicious object is present in the monitored area, wherein the query includes an indication of an area of interest, marked by the user within a first frame of a video stream capturing the monitored area, wherein the area of interest includes an image of the suspicious object and the query is to scan the video streams backwards and identify a first appearance of the suspicious object in the video streams; automatically scanning one or more relevant video streams of the plurality of video streams backwards in time and analyzing the area of interest in previous frames; automatically identifying the first appearance of the suspicious object in a second frame, the second frame being previous in time to the first frame and wherein the second frame is from the one or more relevant video streams; and displaying to the user a playback of the video stream starting from the second frame or from a frame previous in time to the second frame so as to enable the real-time investigation of the suspicious object.