Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204552 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING WITH AT LEAST ONE VIDEO CAMERA - A device for monitoring, comprising at least one video camera, a unit for moving the at least one video camera by swivelling, tilting, and swivelling and tilting, an acoustic locating unit configured for determining a direction from which a noise of a specified type arrives, and a control unit for receiving signals from the locating unit and controlling the moving unit such that the at least one video camera is pointed in the direction of the noise. | 08-28-2008 |
20080211910 | Surveillance Camera, Method For Calibrating the Surveillance Camera, and Use of the Surveillance Camera - Video monitoring systems are commonly used for monitoring streets, junctions, squares, and also public buildings, museums, prisons. Video monitoring systems which output the results for the viewing areas/objects in the scene in metric units, such as lengths in meters and speed in meters per second, or the absolute and/or relative positioning in a camera network, require knowledge of camera parameters such as e.g. the position, orientation, and aperture angle of the camera(s). These parameters are usually manually measured at high cost during the installation process, for example special patterns (sample patterns) are used, or people walking backwards and forwards in front of the camera. A monitoring camera | 09-04-2008 |
20090192686 | Method and Driver Assistance System for Sensor-Based Drive-Off Control of a Motor Vehicle - A method for controlling the drive-off of a motor vehicle in which the area in front of the vehicle is sensed using a sensor device and a drive-off enabling signal is automatically output after the vehicle stops, if the traffic situation allows. Features of the road in the area in front of the vehicle are extracted from the data of the sensor device, and on the basis of these features, at least one enable criterion is checked, a positive result indicating that the road is clear. | 07-30-2009 |
20090207902 | Method and system for processing data - A method for processing data, including the recording of raw data, processing, particularly digitizing, compressing and/or encoding, the raw data, analysis, particularly performing a content analysis, of the raw data or the processed data, interpretation, particularly performing an event recognition, of the analysis results in order to generate a semantic description of the contents, indexing of the processed data with the aid of the semantic description, processing of the indexed data. A data-processing system having a recording device for recording raw data, at least one processing device for the processing, particularly digitizing, compressing and/or encoding, of the raw data; for interpreting the analysis results, particularly for performing an event recognition in order to generate a semantic description of the contents; and for processing the indexed data; an analyzer device for the analysis, particularly for performing a content analysis, of the raw data or the processed data, and an indexing device for indexing the processed data with the aid of the semantic description. This method and this system provide improved data processing, especially of audio data and/or video data. | 08-20-2009 |
20090304263 | Method for classifying an object using a stereo camera - A method is provided for classifying an object using a stereo camera, the stereo camera generating a first and a second image using a first and a second video sensor respectively. In order to classify the object, the first and the second image are compared with one another in predefined areas surrounding corresponding pixel coordinates, the pixel coordinates for at least one model, at least one position and at least one distance from the stereo camera being made available. | 12-10-2009 |
20100002074 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REDUCING THE RESOLUTION OF AN INPUT IMAGE - In a method, a device, and a computer program for reducing the resolution of an input image, wherein input image shows a three-dimensional scene that was recorded by a surveillance camera, the distance between surveillance camera and objects in the three-dimensional scene is referred to as the object distance, and the resolution reduction is adjusted with consideration for the object distance in the three-dimensional scene and/or the perspective distortion of the three-dimensional scene. | 01-07-2010 |
20100201821 | SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM HAVING STATUS DETECTION MODULE, METHOD FOR SELF-MONITORING OF AN OBSERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Monitoring systems typically comprise a plurality of monitoring cameras, which are disposed in different locations for monitoring one or more monitoring regions. Monitoring systems of said type are used, for example, to monitor places, inter-sections, buildings, libraries, train stations, factories, prisons, retirement homes and the like. The invention relates to a monitoring system ( | 08-12-2010 |
20100265327 | System for recording Surroundings - A system and method to record the surroundings for a movable device. The system has at least one sensor for the visual recording of the surroundings, as well as respectively at least one sensor for recording the direction of motion and the orientation of the device, the system being developed to process information provided by the sensors. | 10-21-2010 |
20110006903 | Assistance system for a motor vehicle - A driver-assistance system for a motor vehicle includes a recording device for recording an environment of the motor vehicle including a rear environment of the motor vehicle, a warning device for generating a warning signal, and an evaluation device. The evaluation device is configured to analyze a current driving behavior of the driver on the basis of the recorded environment of the motor vehicle, and to induce the warning device to generate a warning signal if the evaluation device detects a deviation of the driving behavior from a predetermined setpoint behavior. | 01-13-2011 |
20120150428 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING ROAD SIGNS IN THE VICINITY OF A VEHICLE AND FOR SYNCHRONIZATION THEREOF TO ROAD SIGN INFORMATION FROM A DIGITAL MAP - A method for recognizing road signs in the vicinity of a vehicle and for synchronization thereof to road sign information from a digital map where, in the case of a recognition of road signs, road-sign recognition data are generated, navigation data being provided for localizing the vehicle in digital map data, and the road-sign recognition data being synchronized to the map data. To be able to provide unambiguous and the most accurate possible and thus improved road sign information to be output to the driver in the context of such a method, in the case of a discrepancy between the map data and the road-sign recognition data, the decision is made with the aid of reliability factors for the camera and map as to whether the data from the digital map or the road-sign recognition data are output in the vehicle. | 06-14-2012 |
20130063595 | Lane monitoring method and lane monitoring system for a vehicle - A lane monitoring method for a vehicle includes: detecting a lane of the vehicle with the aid of a camera of the vehicle; recording driving status measuring signals of the vehicle; evaluating the driving status of the vehicle according to at least one lane departure criterion; upon meeting the lane departure criterion, checking whether decision criteria for detecting an intentional trajectory shortening maneuver have been met; and generating a lane departure warning signal as a function of the evaluation according to the lane departure criterion, the output of the lane departure warning signal being suppressed if an intentional trajectory shortening maneuver is detected. | 03-14-2013 |