Patents by Inventor John I. W. Clark

John I. W. Clark has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11594031
    Abstract: A system and method to automatically generate a secondary video stream based on an incoming primary video stream. The method including performing video analytics on the primary video stream to generate one or more analysis results, detecting the first target of interest using the analysis results, automatically extracting a first secondary video stream that captures at least a portion of a first target of interest and has a field of view smaller than that of the primary video stream, tracking the first target of interest, displaying the first secondary video stream, detecting a second target of interest using the analysis results, automatically adapting the first secondary video stream from the primary video stream to capture a portion of the first and second targets of interest, tracking the second target of interest, and displaying the first secondary stream including the portion of the first and second targets of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Publication number: 20210142070
    Abstract: A system and method to automatically generate a secondary video stream based on an incoming primary video stream. The method including performing video analytics on the primary video stream to generate one or more analysis results, detecting the first target of interest using the analysis results, automatically extracting a first secondary video stream that captures at least a portion of a first target of interest and has a field of view smaller than that of the primary video stream, tracking the first target of interest displaying the first secondary video stream, detecting a second target of interest using the analysis results, automatically adapting the first secondary video stream from the primary video stream to capture a portion of the first and second targets of interest, tracking the second target of interest, and displaying the first secondary stream including the portion of the first and second targets of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I.W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 10929680
    Abstract: A system and method to automatically generate a secondary video stream based on an incoming primary video stream. The method including performing video analytics on the primary video stream to generate one or more analysis results, detecting the first target of interest using the analysis results, automatically extracting a first secondary video stream that captures at least a portion of a first target of interest and has a field of view smaller than that of the primary video stream, tracking the first target of interest, displaying the first secondary video stream, detecting a second target of interest using the analysis results, automatically adapting the first secondary video stream from the primary video stream to capture a portion of the first and second targets of interest, tracking the second target of interest, and displaying the first secondary stream including the portion of the first and second targets of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Publication number: 20200210711
    Abstract: A system and method to automatically generate a secondary video stream based on an incoming primary video stream. The method including performing video analytics on the primary video stream to generate one or more analysis results, detecting the first target of interest using the analysis results, automatically extracting a first secondary video stream that captures at least a portion of a first target of interest and has a field of view smaller than that of the primary video stream, tracking the first target of interest, displaying the first secondary video stream, detecting a second target of interest using the analysis results, automatically adapting the first secondary video stream from the primary video stream to capture a portion of the first and second targets of interest, tracking the second target of interest, and displaying the first secondary stream including the portion of the first and second targets of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I.W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 10645350
    Abstract: A video surveillance system is set up, calibrated, tasked, and operated. The system extracts video primitives and extracts even occurrences from the video primitives using event discriminators. The extracted video primitives and event occurrences may be used to create and define additional video analytic rules. The system can undertake a response, such as an alarm, based on extracted event occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Titus, Zhong Zhang, John I. W. Clark, Alan J. Lipton, Kelly Schomburg, Peter L. Venetianer, Li Yu
  • Patent number: 10614311
    Abstract: The automatic generation of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams to concentrate on one or more targets, events and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 9936170
    Abstract: A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Geoffrey Egnal, Matthew F. Frazier, Niels Haering, Alan J. Lipton, Donald G. Madden, Michael C. Mannebach, Gary W. Myers, James S. Sfekas, Peter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170132471
    Abstract: The automatic generation of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams to concentrate on one or more targets, events and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I.W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 9591267
    Abstract: A sensing device includes: a video imager to obtain a video; a processing unit to receive and process the video from the video imager; and a communication channel to output non-imagery signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan J. Lipton, Bruce Thompson, John I. W. Clark, Péter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang, Li Yu, Weihong Yin, Steve Titus, Amit Mistry, James Morris
  • Patent number: 9524437
    Abstract: The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Publication number: 20160127699
    Abstract: A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Geoffrey Egnal, Matthew F. Frazier, Niels Haering, Alan J. Lipton, Donald G. Madden, Michael C. Mannebach, Gary W. Myers, James S. Sfekas, Peter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160086038
    Abstract: The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I.W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 9210336
    Abstract: The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Patent number: 9204107
    Abstract: A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Geoffrey Egnal, Matthew F. Frazier, Niels Haering, Alan J. Lipton, Donald G. Madden, Michael C. Mannebach, Gary W. Myers, James S. Sfekas, Péter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150015787
    Abstract: The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I.W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Publication number: 20140293048
    Abstract: A video surveillance system is set up, calibrated, tasked, and operated. The system extracts video primitives and extracts even occurrences from the video primitives using event discriminators. The extracted video primitives and event occurrences may be used to create and define additional video analytic rules. The system can undertake a response, such as an alarm, based on extracted event occurrences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Titus, Zhong Zhang, John I. W. Clark, Alan J. Lipton, Kelly Schomburg, Peter L. Venetianer, Li Yu
  • Patent number: 8848053
    Abstract: The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Andrew Scanlon, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Robert A. Cutting, Alan J. Lipton, Gary W. Myers
  • Publication number: 20130278764
    Abstract: A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Geoffrey Egnal, Matthew F. Frazier, Niels Haering, Alan J. Lipton, Donald G. Madden, Michael C. Mannebach, Gary W. Myers, James S. Sfekas, Péter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 8564661
    Abstract: A video surveillance system is set up, calibrated, tasked, and operated. The system extracts video primitives and extracts event occurrences from the video primitives using event discriminators. The extracted video primitives and event occurrences may be used to create and define additional video analytic rules. The system can undertake a response, such as an alarm, based on extracted event occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Lipton, John I. W. Clark, Zhong Zhang, Peter L. Venetianer, Thomas Strat, Mark Allmen, William Severson, Niels Haering, Andrew Chosak, Matthew Frazier, James Sfekas, Tasuki Hirata
  • Patent number: 8497906
    Abstract: A method of video processing may include analyzing input video information to determine if a current video frame is directed to a same view as a previous video frame; determining whether a new view is present; and indicating a need to use video processing information pertaining to the new view if a new view is determined to be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Andrew J. Chosak, John I. W. Clark, Geoffrey Egnal, Matthew F. Frazier, Niels Haering, Alan J. Lipton, Donald G. Madden, Michael C. Mannebach, Gary W. Myers, James S. Sfekas, Péter L. Venetianer, Zhong Zhang