Patent ID: 8633984

Claim:
A method of creating a coherent video data stream of an object moving between a plurality of areas covered by a plurality of data collecting devices comprising: receiving user input to select a plurality of data collecting devices from the plurality of data collecting devices; synchronizing playback of video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices; displaying the video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices substantially simultaneously; receiving user input to specify time periods of in each of the video data streams from the selected plurality of data collecting devices, the user input including entrance times and exit times corresponding to times when the object appears and ceases to appear, respectively, in a respective video data stream; receiving user input to move each entrance time identified by the user input to a time substantially immediately after a last marked exit time; and sequentially, according to time, combining portions of the video data streams into the coherent video data stream, the portions corresponding to the specified time periods of interest.