Abstract: Dangerous road events and conditions may be detected and responded to. A first report is received including a first location of a first vehicle and a first acceleration associated with the first vehicle beyond a threshold amount. A second report is received including a second location of a second vehicle and a second acceleration associated with the second vehicle beyond the threshold amount. In response to determining that the first and second reports meet a maximum relative time constraint and a maximum relative location constraint: (i) transmitting a notification to a dispatch console indicative of a potential dangerous road event near the first and second locations, (ii) transmitting a dispatch request to a response vehicle to respond to the potential dangerous road event near the first and second locations, or (iii) storing an indication of the potential dangerous road event.

Abstract: A method and device for improved audio intelligibility in a converged land mobile radio (LMR)/broadband (BB) communications system is provided. A converged portable radio operating as part of a talkgroup in the LMR/BB system checks for predetermined triggers during standby that could cause receive radios of the talkgroup to receive degraded audio. If such a trigger is detected then the converged portable radio switches from the LMR system to the BB system and transmits a notification including a change system message to the other converged portable radios of the talkgroup. The notification is transmitted prior to any push-to-talk audio being transmitted from the originating radio. The converged portable radio can transmit, via a push-to-talk switch, narrowband (NB) audio and wideband (WB) audio in parallel over the BB system to the talkgroup subsequent to the detection of triggers and the sending of the notification.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for event summarization facilitated by emotions/reactions of people near an event location is disclosed. The method includes generating a query based at least in part on reaction information and at least in part on primary video metadata. Based on the query, at least one possible event summarization match for the one or more events is retrieved from a database.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of localizing an image of a person captured using a camera is provided, the person in the field of view of a camera, comprising: obtaining the image captured using a camera, the image comprising the person within a bounding box; determining at least one slant value associated with the person within the bounding box; determining head image coordinates and feet image coordinates for the person using the at least one slant value; and localizing the person by projecting the head image coordinates to a head plane and the feet image coordinates for the person to a ground plane.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for prioritizing a digital-assistant response is provided herein. During operation a personal-area network (PAN) master device will have knowledge of a status of devices forming the PAN and/or have knowledge of a current incident type assigned to a user. The PAN master device will then prioritize any responses/suggestions to the user based on the status of associated PAN devices and/or the incident type.

Abstract: A process for securely pairing devices. A host device receives an input indicating a user credential for logging into the host device and initiates a scanning process for discovering target devices available for pairing with the host device. During the scanning process, the host device receives wireless pairing information from a target device. The wireless pairing information includes a unique device identifier associated with the target device and an electronic signature generated as a function of a signature key stored at the target device and the unique device identifier. The host device compares the electronic signature with a run-time signature generated at the host device as a function of the user credential received at the host device and the unique device identifier. The host device then initiates a pairing process to establish a short-range communication link with the target device when the electronic signature matches with the run-time signature.

Abstract: A process for transferring security access permissions between in-camera users includes capturing, at an electronic computing device via an image capture device, an image of two or more in-camera users. A first in-camera user and a second in-camera user are identified n the image. An input gesture identifying the first in-camera user as a source of security access permissions and the second in-camera user as a destination of security access permissions is detected. Responsively, the electronic computing device causes a first particular security access permission associated with the first in-camera user to be applied to and modify a current set of security access permissions associated with the second in-camera user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic radiometric thermal imaging compensation. The method includes analyzing a visible light image to determine an emissivity value for each of a plurality of visible light pixels making up the visible light image. The method includes associating each of the plurality of thermal pixels making up a thermal image corresponding to the visible light image with at least one of the plurality of visible light pixels making up the visible light image. The method includes generating a second thermal image by, for each of the plurality of thermal pixels making up the thermal image, determining a temperature value based on the thermal pixel value of the thermal pixel and the emissivity value of the at least one of the plurality of visible light pixels associated with the thermal pixel.

Abstract: A system for on-dispatch identification and assignment of unresolved tasks. The system includes an electronic processor configured to detect that a responder unit is dispatched to respond to a first incident and, in response, correlate extracted information corresponding to the first incident with information that is stored corresponding to a plurality of unresolved tasks and identify, based on the correlation and a responder unit profile associated with the dispatched responder unit, at least one unresolved task. The electronic processor is also configured to, in response to identifying the at least one unresolved task, either cause a notification to be provided at a dispatch computer, the notification identifying a recommendation to assign the at least one unresolved task to the dispatched responder unit or automatically assign the at least one unresolved task to the dispatched responder unit and notify a communication device associated with the dispatched responder unit regarding the assignment.

Abstract: Alias capture to support searching for an object-of-interest is disclosed. A method includes capturing, using a camera with a defined field of view, video image frames that include a moving object-of-interest. The method also includes tracking the object-of-interest over a period of time starting when the object-of-interest enters the field of view and ending when the object-of-interest exits the field of view. The method also includes detecting, at a point in time in-between the start and end of the period of time of the tracking, a threshold exceeding change in an appearance of the object-of-interest. The method also includes creating, before the end of the period of time of the tracking, a new object profile for the object-of-interest in response to the detecting of the threshold exceeding change.

Abstract: A device, system and method for generating an alert and an automatic search for a candidate subject is provided. The device monitors one or more data sources to identify a candidate subject. The device determines, from rules for rating candidate subjects stored in a memory, a rating of the candidate subject. When the rating meets a first threshold: the device transmits, to one or more communication devices, an alert identifying the candidate subject. When the rating meets a second threshold, lower than the first threshold: the devices provides, a classifier defining the candidate subject to an object recognition engine to cause the object recognition engine to automatically search for the candidate subject, using the classifier, in multimedia data received at one or more edge devices. The multimedia data may include images.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and technical methods of the present disclosure leverage digital visitor logs from confinement facilities to identify people of interest that may be involved in incidents to which first responders are dispatched. When a phone call is received at phone public safety access point, a first query including a name associated with the call is transmitted to a digital visitor log for a confinement facility. A digital response to the first query identifies a visitee who was visited by a visitor by that name while the visitee was in confinement. The visitee's name is then transmitted in a second query to a digital repository containing release records; a digital response indicates the visitee was released before the call was received. An electronic notification that identifies the visitee is transmitted to a device associated with an agent who is responding to the call.

Abstract: A process for recognizing and responding to a detected audio inquiry by gathering information distributed amongst users and providing a calculated result includes monitoring audio communications and detecting an audio inquiry from a first electronic communication device. It is determined then the audio inquiry is of a distributed information gathering and mathematical operation type and, in response, a plurality of target electronic communication devices that are capable of providing partial answers to the audio inquiry are identified and a request for a partial answer transmitted to each. Corresponding partial answers are received and a mathematical operation performed on the partial answers to generate a final answer to the audio inquiry different from the corresponding partial answers. The final answer is then provided to the first electronic communication device.

Abstract: Systems and devices for providing a non-touchscreen enabled application through a touchscreen. One embodiment provides a touchscreen and an electronic processor communicably coupled to the touchscreen. The electronic processor configured to generate a touch interface comprising a representation of a non-touch interface provided by a non-touchscreen enabled application, provide the touch interface to the touchscreen, receive a command from the touchscreen corresponding to an interaction with the representation of the non-touch interface, translate the command into at least one event for updating a state of the non-touchscreen enabled application, and provide the at least one event to the non-touchscreen enabled application.

Abstract: A system, device and method for fingerprint authentication using a watermarked digital image is provided. A device includes a display device including a touch screen configured to detect fingerprints; and, a controller. The controller: generates, at the display device, an image that includes, in one or more given areas, image-embedded fingerprint information; detects, at one or more portions of the touch screen respectively corresponding to the one or more given areas, user-fingerprint information representing a fingerprint; implements a comparison between the user-fingerprint information and the image-embedded fingerprint information; and when the comparison between the user-fingerprint information and the image-embedded fingerprint information is successful, implement an access process.

Abstract: Techniques for automatically detecting objects left behind. An example method includes receiving video frames of a scene from a three-dimensional (3D) camera and establishing, based on 3D depths associated with the video frames, a background of the scene. The method also includes detecting, in the frames, a foreground blob in the scene based on the foreground blob having a 3D depth that is different from the background. The method further includes detecting that the foreground blob has separated into a blob corresponding to a person and a second blob corresponding to an object, based on the person having a 3D depth that is different from the object. The method additionally includes determining that the person has been separated from the object for a threshold, and responsive to determining that the person has been separated from the object for the threshold, generating an alert indicating that the object is left behind.

Abstract: Efficient use of channel bandwidth response, response timing, along with the ability to acquire the most accurate and up to date response are provided for management of virtual assistant search queries within a communication system (100). Improved management is obtained using an artificial intelligence (AI) server (104) controlling response activity to a query communication device (102) by incorporating one or more of: adjusting verbosity of responses (158), redirecting queries from the AI server to alternate resources (412), and/or prioritizing of a response (506) based on wait time.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for enhancing a VMS are disclosed. One of the disclosed methods includes populating a user interface page with one or more images, each showing a single person matched to a known identity, and each taken contemporaneously with one or more respective access control event occurrences identifiable to the single person. User selection input is receivable to mark at least one of the images as a reference image for an appearance search to find additional images of the single person captured by video cameras within a surveillance system.

Abstract: A system, device, and method for camera placement based on access tier attributes is disclosed. The method includes correlating, by an at least one electronic processor, a geographical location and existing tiered camera deployments with electronically stored indications of crime rates across a geographic area associated with a security agency. The method also includes generating, by the at least one electronic processor, at least one new proposed security camera deployment at at least a first proposed location in the geographic area associated with the security agency having a proposed tier selected from one of a plurality of tiers determined as a function of the correlating.

Abstract: At least one detected natural language phrase in audio describes at least one expected future object activity in a definable physical or geographic region. For each of one or more potential video analytic rules that are derivable from the at least one natural language phrase, whether compatibility with corresponding workflow requirements of an entity exists may be determined, such that one, some or all of the one or more potential video analytic rules are confirmed as one or more workflow-compatible video analytic rules. The one or more workflow-compatible video analytic rules are implemented within a video security system for respective one or more periods of time. For each of the implemented video analytic rules, a notification may be generated: when a rule violation of the respective video analytic rule triggers an event; or following expiry of the respective period of time of the one or more periods of time.