US 12,225,323 B2
Event-oriented multi-channel video backup apparatus and method, and network surveillance camera system including the same
Hyun Ho Kim, Seongnam-si (KR); Jaeyoung Shin, Seongnam-si (KR); Byoungki An, Seongnam-si (KR); Daehyun Gu, Seongnam-si (KR); Youngin Yun, Seongnam-si (KR); and Ji-eun Kim, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed by HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed on May 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/752,523.
Application 17/752,523 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2020/014985, filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,343, filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0015668 (KR), filed on Feb. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286642 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/71 (2019.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 5/91 (2013.01) [G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 16/71 (2019.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); H04N 5/77 (2013.01); H04N 7/188 (2013.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01); G06V 2201/10 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network surveillance camera system comprising:
a video receiving and/or searching device connected to a plurality of cameras through a network, and configured to receive video information and metadata in real time from the plurality of cameras through multiple channels and perform a video search on the video information; and
a video backup device configured to store event-oriented and channel-wise video backup information generated according to a result of the video search of the video receiving and/or searching device, and play back the event-oriented and channel-wise video backup information,
wherein the video information is obtained by the plurality of cameras configured to capture a plurality of surveillance areas, respectively,
wherein the event-oriented and channel-wise video backup information comprises a video backup file generated for each channel and a video playback software player,
wherein still images containing detected objects are obtained by cropping videos from the plurality of cameras,
wherein the received video information includes both the videos and the still images cropped from the videos and the received metadata includes time information when the objects are detected, and a chronological order or the same time at which at least two still images are played is determined based on the time information, and
wherein, when a user selects at least two still images from the still images and the chronological order is determined based on the time information, the selected at least two still images are listed in the chronological order in a section of a screen and the videos corresponding to the selected at least two still images are played in the chronological order in another section of the screen.