Appeal No. 2002-1940
Application 08/932,649
a monitoring camera for monitoring an area including an
object, said monitoring camera being changeable in a shooting
direction so as to monitor a wide area;
an image processor for analyzing an image from said
monitoring camera;
a video device controller for controlling video devices
including said monitoring camera;
means for managing at least one kind of information selected
from a group of video device control information used for
controlling the video devices, object characteristics quantity
information which is information concerning characteristic
quantities of the object, and a topographic information of the
area to be monitored;
means for teaching said image processor characteristic
quantities of an object;
means for correcting and renewing the characteristic
quantities, in response to the image analysis effected on the
basis of topographic change of the area to be monitored, based on
a change in shooting conditions of said video devices, using the
topographic information stored in advance; and
means for detecting an object, referring to the renewed
characteristic quantities.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Kuo 5,606,627 Feb. 25, 1997
(filing date of Jan. 24, 1995)
Aviv 5,666,157 Sep. 9, 1997
(filing date of Jan. 3, 1995)
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