Method and system for video collection and analysis thereof

Abstract

A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.

1 . A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising:
 determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window; and   generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the step of generating includes the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon an input by a human operator. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the windows generated by the generating step are representative of portions of the video displaced from one another by a pre-determined period of time. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the pre-determined period of time is defined by a human operator. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon a detection of movement in the video. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein the step of determining the point in time of at least one of the windows is based upon a detection of an event in the video. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the selection of an area of interest is performed by drawing a graphical box around the area of interest on the source window. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein determining an area of interest is performed based upon a detection of movement in an area of the video. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1  wherein determining an area of interest is performed based upon a detection of an event in an area of the video. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the controls include zoom controls. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the windows are thumbnail sized. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the size of each window can be altered. 
     
     
         14 . A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising a map designating a location of at least one monitoring sensor and a source window to view play back of a video, the surveillance method comprising:
 displaying a video being detected by the at least one monitoring sensor;   displaying a section of the map representing the location of the at least one monitoring sensor detecting the video.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the video displayed is displaced based upon an instruction received through a network. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the instruction is issued by a human operator. 
     
     
         17 .- 21 . (canceled) 
     
     
         22 . An improved computer implemented graphical user interface for monitoring video surveillance comprising:
 a viewing region for viewing a video;   a video navigation region for manipulating the viewing of the video;   a thumbnail region which dynamically displays select frames of the video based on a pre-defined criteria each frame having a navigation region for viewing of the video beginning with the displayed frame;   wherein selecting individual frames of the video populates the viewing region with said individual frame and plays the video beginning with the selected frame.   
     
     
         23 . An improved graphical user interface of  claim 22  further comprising an alert notification region for alerting a user of the graphical user interface to a pre-defined occurrence in the video.