Patents Assigned to Pelco
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Patent number: 8474780Abstract: A cable retainer assembly for use inside utility pole base assembly. The cable retainer is anchored to the foundation using the same bolts as the pole base. The cable retainer discourages pole-to-pole cable theft by securing the copper conductor cables to the foundation and pole base plate below the handhole in the pole. Access to the clamps of the cable retainer may be prevented by including a blocking structure positioned between the cable retainer and the handhole in the pole base.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Pelco Products, Inc.Inventors: A. Philip Parduhn, Raymond M. Woods, Scott R. Talley
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Publication number: 20130162834Abstract: Techniques for processing video content in a video camera are provided. The techniques include a method for processing video content in at video camera according to the disclosure includes capturing thermal video data using a thermal imaging sensor, determining quantization parameters for the thermal video data, quantizing the thermal video data to generate quantized thermal video data content and video quantization information, and transmitting the quantized thermal video data stream and the video quantization information to a video analytics server over a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Lei Wang, Farzin Aghdasi, Greg Millar
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Publication number: 20130163956Abstract: A method of displaying a timeline of recorded video comprising the steps of dividing the recorded video into timespans, providing a thumbnail and a timestamp for each timespan that has recorded video, providing a gap and a timestamp between thumbnails for each timespan in which there is no recorded video, displaying a first timeline containing the provided thumbnails and timestamps and the provided gaps and timestamps having an uncompressed format, receiving user input requesting that the first timeline be compressed, removing the gaps and their respective timestamps from the first timeline and moving the thumbnails and their timestamps located on either side of the gaps so that the thumbnails on either side of the gaps are adjacent to provide a compressed timeline, and displaying the compressed timeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Kirsten A. Medhurst, Adrianus A. de Klerk
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Publication number: 20130163382Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining device positions in a video surveillance system. A method described herein includes generating a reference sound; emitting, at a first device, the reference sound; detecting, at the first device, a responsive reference sound from one or more second devices in response to the emitted reference sound; identifying a position of each of the one or more second devices; obtaining information relating to latency of the one or more second devices; computing a round trip time associated with each of the one or more second devices based on at least a timing of detecting the one or more responsive reference sounds and the latency of each of the one or more second devices; and estimating the position of the first device according to the round trip time and the position associated with each of the one or more second devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: James Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Greg Millar
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Publication number: 20130166711Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein that provide a three-tier intelligent video surveillance management system. An example of a system described herein includes a gateway configured to obtain video content and metadata relating to the video content from a plurality of network devices, a metadata processing module communicatively coupled to the gateway and configured to filter the metadata according to one or more criteria to obtain a filtered set of metadata, a video processing module communicatively coupled to the gateway and the metadata processing module and configured to isolate video portions, of video the content, associated with respective first portions of the filtered set of metadata, and a cloud services interface communicatively coupled to the gateway, the metadata processing module and the video processing module and configured to provide at least some of the filtered set of metadata or the isolated video portions to a cloud computing service.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Lei Wang, Hongwei Zhu, Farzin Aghdasi, Greg Millar
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Publication number: 20130162838Abstract: Systems and methods for transformations between image and map coordinates, such as those associated with a video surveillance system, are described herein. An example of a method described herein includes selecting a reference point within the image with known image coordinates and map coordinates, computing at least one transformation parameter with respect to a location and a height of the camera and the reference point, detecting a target location to be tracked within the image, determining image coordinates of the target location, and computing map coordinates of the target location based on the image coordinates of the target location and the at least one transformation parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Chien-Min Huang, Wei Su, Frank Vaughn
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Publication number: 20130155290Abstract: The methods and systems described herein are directed to image processing. More specifically, the image processing described herein may include centering an object in the field of view during zooming. The image processing methods and systems may further include setting a magnification factor, positioning the camera in a first field of view capturing a first image, setting a second magnification factor, and capturing a second image. Additionally, the described techniques may include altering the first image to determine an offset and adjusting the camera based on the offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventor: Chien-Min Huang
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Publication number: 20130155247Abstract: A method of adjusting the color of images captured by a plurality of cameras comprises the steps of receiving a first image captured by a first camera from the plurality of cameras, analyzing the first image to separate the pixels in the first image into background pixels and foreground pixels, selecting pixels from the background pixels that have a color that is a shade of gray, determining the amount to adjust the colors of the selected pixels to move their colors towards true gray, and providing information for use in adjusting the color components of images from the plurality of cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Lei Wang, Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi
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Publication number: 20130028467Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide for systems and methods for creating metadata associated with a video data. The metadata can include data about objects viewed within a video scene and/or events that occur within the video scene. Some embodiments allow users to search for specific objects and/or events by searching the recorded metadata. In some embodiments, metadata is created by receiving a video frame and developing a background model for the video frame. Foreground object(s) can then be identified in the video frame using the background model. Once these objects are identified they can be classified and/or an event associated with the foreground object may be detected. The event and the classification of the foreground object can then be recorded as metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Lei Wang
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Patent number: 8346065Abstract: An apparatus for and method of storing video data comprising receiving an MPEG video stream comprising I-frames and P-frames, separating the I-frames from the P-frames, storing the I-frames and the P-frames separately, and providing information so that the I-frames and the P-frames can be combined to produce a full-motion video.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventor: Samuel Nikolay Grigorian
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Patent number: 8301899Abstract: A method of and apparatus for allowing a user to access an electronic device by entering a password from a first device having alphabetic letter keys and numerical digit keys and a second device having primarily numerical digit keys comprising creating an alphabetic letter conversion relationship between the alphabetic letter keys of the first device with the numerical digit keys of the second device, creating a numerical digit conversion relationship between the numerical digit keys of the first device with the numerical digit keys of the second device, receiving a first password entered from the first device having alphabetic letter keys and numerical digit keys, converting the first password to a second password that can be entered from the second device having primarily numerical digit keys by using the alphabetic letter conversion relationship and the numerical digit conversion relationship, and allowing a user to access the electronic device if the user enters the first password or the second password.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventor: Greg Max Millar
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Patent number: 8294772Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for monitoring connection performance within a network. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented by analyzing an array of status bits outputted by an analog to digital video decoder. By storing and statistically analyzing an array of status information units, the person monitoring the network can quickly and efficiently be notified of a connection problem, such as a degrading connection resulting in an intermittent signal. In another embodiment, the system and method are implemented by analyzing an array of time stamps outputted when processing frames of video from an analog video camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Victor Joseph Duvanenko, Jeffrey Lee Standish
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Patent number: 8269844Abstract: A method of improving a video image by removing the effects of camera vibration comprising the steps of, obtaining a reference frame, receiving an incoming frame, determining the frame translation vector for the incoming frame, translating the incoming frame to generate a realigned frame, performing low pass filtering in the spatial domain on pixels in the realigned frame, performing low pass filtering in the spatial domain on pixels in the reference frame, determining the absolute difference between the filtered pixels in the reference frame and the filtered pixels in the realigned frame, performing low pass filtering in the temporal domain on the pixels in the realigned frame to generate the output frame if the absolute difference is less than a predetermined threshold, and providing the realigned frame as the output frame if the absolute difference is greater than the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Chien-Min Huang, Farzin Aghdasi
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Publication number: 20120173577Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide for systems and methods for creating metadata associated with a video data. The metadata can include data about objects viewed within a video scene and/or events that occur within the video scene. Some embodiments allow users to search for specific objects and/or events by searching the recorded metadata. In some embodiments, metadata is created by receiving a video frame and developing a background model for the video frame. Foreground object(s) can then be identified in the video frame using the background model. Once these objects are identified they can be classified and/or an event associated with the foreground object may be detected. The event and the classification of the foreground object can then be recorded as metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Lei Wang
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Publication number: 20120169923Abstract: Techniques are discussed for providing mechanisms for coding and transmitting high definition video, e.g., over low bandwidth connections. In particular, foreground-objects are identified as distinct from the background of a scene represented in a plurality of video frames received from a video source, such as a camera. In identifying foreground-objects, semantically significant and semantically insignificant movement (e.g., repetitive versus non-repetitive movement) is differentiated. Processing of the foreground-objects and background proceed at different update rates or frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Lei Wang, Chien-Min Huang
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Publication number: 20120170838Abstract: Systems and methods of sorting electronic color images of objects are provided. One method includes receiving an input representation of an object, the representation including pixels defined in a first color space, converting the input image into a second color space, determining a query feature vector including multiple parameters associated with color of the input representation, the query feature vector parameters including at least a first parameter of the first color space and at least a first parameter of the second color space and comparing the query feature vector to multiple candidate feature vectors. Each candidate feature vector includes multiple parameters associated with color of multiple stored candidate images, the candidate feature vector parameters including at least the first parameter from the first color space and at least the first parameter from the second color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Lei WANG, Shu Yang, Greg Miller, Farzin Aghdasi
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Publication number: 20120170902Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide for systems and methods for searching video data for events and/or behaviors. An inference engine can be used to aide in the searching. In some embodiments, a user can specify various search criteria, for example, a video source(s), an event(s) or behavior(s) to search, and an action(s) to perform in the event of a successful search. The search can be performed by analyzing an object(s) found within scenes of the video data. An object can be identified by a number of attributes specified by the user. Once the search criteria has been received from the user, the video data can be received (or extracted from storage), the data analyzed for the specified events (or behaviors), and the specified action performed in the event a successful search occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Hongwei Zhu, Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Lei Wang, Shu Yang
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Publication number: 20120169871Abstract: An image display method includes: receiving, from a single camera, first and second image information for first and second captured images captured from different perspectives, the first image information having a first data density; selecting a portion of the first captured image for display with a higher level of detail than other portions of the first captured image, the selected portion corresponding to a first area of the first captured image; displaying the selected portion in a first displayed image, using a second data density relative to the selected portion of the first captured image; and displaying another portion of the first captured image, in a second displayed image, using a third data density; where the another portion of the first captured image is other than the selected portion of the first captured image; and where the third data density is lower than the second data density.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Sezai SABLAK, Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi
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Publication number: 20120169882Abstract: Techniques are described for tracking moving objects using a plurality of security cameras. Multiple cameras may capture frames that contain images of a moving object. These images may be processed by the cameras to create metadata associated with the images of the objects. Frames of each camera's video feed and metadata may be transmitted to a host computer system. The host computer system may use the metadata received from each camera to determine whether the moving objects imaged by the cameras represent the same moving object. Based upon properties of the images of the objects described in the metadata received from each camera, the host computer system may select a preferable video feed containing images of the moving object for display to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Greg Millar, Farzin Aghdasi, Lei Wang
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Publication number: 20120169870Abstract: Techniques are discussed for correcting optical aberrations that exist in surveillance domes that have spherical and non-spherical parts. For example, the image quality of a surveillance camera is reduced when it focuses on an object through a non-spherical base of a surveillance dome. This image quality reduction could potentially compromise the security of the area monitored by the surveillance camera by failing to provide enough detail to identify individuals or other objects of interest. Utilizing a corrective optical element to provide curvature to a wavefront that travels through the non-spherical base, however, helps preserve the image quality of the camera and thereby helps maintain the integrity of the surveillance system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Pelco Inc.Inventors: Prateek Jain, David Campbell