Patents by Inventor Robert Fahrni

Robert Fahrni 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).

  • Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling a video surveillance system
    Patent number: 9420233
    Abstract: A method of dynamically controlling the use of a video analysis program in a video surveillance system having a plurality of video sources connected to a network comprising: providing a video analysis program to the video surveillance system, allowing the video analysis program to be used with a predetermined number of video sources, and allowing the use of the video analysis program to be transferred from one of the plurality of video sources to another of the plurality of video sources provided that the total number of video sources using the video analysis program at one time is less than the predetermined number of video sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Pelco, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Fahrni
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090244286
    Abstract: A method of controlling a method of dynamically controlling the use of a video analysis program in a video surveillance system having a plurality of video sources connected to a network comprising the steps of providing a video analysis program to the video surveillance system, allowing the video analysis program to be used with a predetermined number of video sources, and allowing the use of the video analysis program to be transferred from one of the plurality of video sources to another of the plurality of video sources provided that the total number of video sources using the video analysis program at one time is less than the predetermined number of video sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: PELCO, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Fahrni
  • Combined layout and icons for a display screen
    Patent number: D561192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Pelco
    Inventors: Erik Kochackis, Robert Fahrni, Kirsten Medhurst, Susan Kare