Patent ID: 8887050

Claim:
A visual surveillance monitoring system for mapping the locations of a moving surveillance target on the earth's surface, comprising a. an input terminal for receiving a video picture sequence of said target with telemetry data indicating the location of the target of the video picture sequence, b. a data storage unit for storing map data, c. display equipment for displaying said video picture sequence and using map data for displaying maps of areas corresponding to said telemetry data, d. a programmed computer for causing to be displayed by said display equipment indicia indicating locations of said moving target on said map and displaying corresponding video images in said sequence and displaying subsequent sequential indicia and corresponding video images at predetermined time intervals along the path of said target on said map during said sequence, e. a video logger for receiving and storing 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, f. 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 visible indicia dividing said first timeline into a plurality of segments of a selectable pre-determined duration, each comprising multiple standard time divisions, and at least one further timeline representative of a feature of selected ones of said video images and located by said tags, said further timeline being aligned with said first timeline to display only those tagged images occurring within a selected one of said segments, and g. a cursor device for alignment with said first timeline to select one of said segments and selectively displaying video images from said further timeline in said selected segment at the location of said cursor.