Patents by Inventor Peter Venetianer

Peter Venetianer 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: 11302117
    Abstract: A method of detecting an anomaly is provided, including dividing each frame of a video stream into a plurality of cells; in each cell formulate statistics based on metadata generated for the frame, the metadata related to presence of an object in the cell, velocity of objects in the cell, direction of motion of objects in the cell, and classification of objects in the cell; and using the formulated statistics to determine when the anomalous activity has occurred in one of the cells of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AVIGILON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dharanish Kedarisetti, Peter Venetianer
  • Patent number: 10867495
    Abstract: A process for adjusting an amount of video analytics data reported by video capturing devices deployed in a given location. In operation, an electronic computing device detects occurrence of an incident at an incident location based on processing video data or sensor data that are captured corresponding to the incident location. When it is determined that a video capturing device that is deployed within a predetermined distance from the incident location is currently configured with a second video analytics data reporting threshold that is greater than the first video analytics data reporting threshold, the electronic computing device transmits an instruction to the video capturing device to lower the second video analytics data reporting threshold to the first video analytics data reporting threshold and further report video analytics data corresponding to a video stream captured by the video capturing device as a function of the first video analytics data reporting threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Venetianer, Yanyan Hu, Kevin Piette
  • Publication number: 20200327313
    Abstract: A method of detecting an anomaly is provided, including dividing each frame of a video stream into a plurality of cells; in each cell formulate statistics based on metadata generated for the frame, the metadata related to presence of an object in the cell, velocity of objects in the cell, direction of motion of objects in the cell, and classification of objects in the cell; and using the formulated statistics to determine when the anomalous activity has occurred in one of the cells of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Dharanish Kedarisetti, Peter Venetianer
  • Patent number: 9646212
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyses of monitored areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Publication number: 20160379061
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyses of monitored areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Patent number: 9443143
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyzes of monitored areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Patent number: 9165190
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyses of monitored areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Avigilon Fortress Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Publication number: 20150178571
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyses of monitored areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Publication number: 20140072170
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for performing video content analysis to detect humans or other objects of interest a video image is disclosed. The detection of humans may be used to count a number of humans, to determine a location of each human and/or perform crowd analyses of monitored areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: OBJECTVIDEO, INC.
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer
  • Publication number: 20080291278
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium contains software that, when read by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method for wide-area site-based surveillance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Li Yu, Haiying Liu, Paul Brewer, Andrew Chosak, Himaanshu Gupta, Niels Haering, Omar Javed, Alan J. Lipton, Zeeshan Rasheed, W. Andrew Scanlon, Steve Titus, Peter Venetianer, Weihong Yin, Liangyin Yu
  • Publication number: 20080117296
    Abstract: A video surveillance system comprises a first sensing unit; a second sensing unit; and a communication medium connecting the first sensing unit and the second sensing unit. The first sensing unit provides information about a position of a target to the second sensing unit via the communication medium, and the second sensing unit uses the position information to locate the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Egnal, Andrew Chosak, Niels Haering, Alan Lipton, Peter Venetianer, Weihong Yin, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20080106599
    Abstract: A video camera may overlook a monitored area from any feasible position. An object flow estimation module monitor the moving direction of the objects in the monitored area. It may separate the consistently moving objects from the other objects. A object count estimation module may compute the object density (e.g. crowd). A object density classification module may classify the density into customizable categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Object Video, Inc.
    Inventors: Haiying Liu, Peter Venetianer, Niels Haering, Omar Javed, Alan Lipton, Andrew Martone, Zeeshan Rasheed, Weihong Yin, Li Yu, Zhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20080018738
    Abstract: A system for video monitoring a retail business process includes a video analytics engine to process video obtained by a video camera and generate video primitives regarding the video, A user interface is used to define at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, each activity of interest identifying at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed. An activity inference engine processes the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest to determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Lipton, Peter Venetianer, Niels Haering, Paul Brewer, WeiHong Yin, Zhong Zhang, Li Yu, Yongtong Hu, Gary Myers, Andrew Chosak, Robert Cutting, W. Scanlon
  • Publication number: 20070285510
    Abstract: A sensing device includes: a video imager to obtain video of an area; a processing unit to receive and process the video from the video imager to identify one of an event or a datum of interest; and a communication channel to output a non-imagery signal representing the event or datum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: Object Video, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Lipton, Bruce Thompson, John Clark, Peter Venetianer, Zhong Zhang, Li Yu, Wei Yin, Steve Titus, Amit Mistry, James Morris
  • Publication number: 20070160289
    Abstract: A method for segmenting video data into foreground and background portions utilizes statistical modeling of the pixels. A statistical model of the background is built for each pixel, and each pixel in an incoming video frame is compared with the background statistical model for that pixel. Pixels are determined to be foreground or background based on the comparisons. The method for segmenting video data may be further incorporated into a method for implementing an intelligent video surveillance system. The method for segmenting video data may be implemented in hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Lipton, Niels Haering, Zeeshan Rasheed, Omar Javed, Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin, Peter Venetianer, Gary Myers
  • Publication number: 20070127774
    Abstract: A technique for video processing includes: receiving video from a scene; detecting moving pixels in the video; detecting line segments or motion blocks in the video based on the detected moving pixels; identifying targets in the video based on the detected line segments or motion blocks; tracking targets in the video based on the identified targets; and managing the tracked targets in the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Yongtong Hu, Alan Lipton, Peter Venetianer, Li Yu, Weihong Yin
  • Publication number: 20070122000
    Abstract: Video processing to detect a stationary object in a video includes: performing background change detection on the video; performing motion detection on the video; determining stable pixels in the video based on the background change detection; and combining the stable pixels to identify at least one stationary object in the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Venetianer, Andrew Chosak, Niels Haering, Alan Lipton, Zhong Zhang, Weihong Yin
  • Publication number: 20070070190
    Abstract: A method of operating a video surveillance system is provided. The video surveillance system including at least two sensing units. A first sensing unit having a substantially 360 degree field of view is used to detect an event of interest. Location information regarding a target is sent from the first sensing unit to at least one second sensing unit when an event of interest is detected by the first sensing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Weihong Yin, Li Yu, Zhong Zhang, Andrew Chosak, Niels Haering, Alan Lipton, Paul Brewer, Peter Venetianer
  • Publication number: 20070058040
    Abstract: Detection of an omitted process in an event having of a sequence of processes includes: receiving video of an action area; receiving transaction data regarding a transaction occurring at the action area; detecting at least two different actor motion states in the video; detecting an event based on the motion states; and detecting the omitted process based on the detected event and the transaction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Niels Haering, Alan Lipton, Haiying Liu, Peter Venetianer, Weihong Yin, Li Yu
  • Publication number: 20070013776
    Abstract: A video surveillance system extracts video primitives and extracts event occurrences from the video primitives using event discriminators. The system can undertake a response, such as an alarm, based on extracted event occurrences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: ObjectVideo, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Venetianer, Alan Lipton, Andrew Chosak, Matthew Frazier, Niels Haering, Gary Myers, Weihong Yin, Zhong Zhang, Robert Cutting