The present application enables improved tracking assistance of an object and includes a link score calculator that calculates a link score from tracking information based on an image captured by cameras, a tracking target setter that sets the object to be tracked in accordance with designation by a monitor, a confirmation image presenter that displays an image of an object having a highest evaluation value as a confirmation image, a thumbnail generator that generates a thumbnail of each object, a candidate image presenter that displays a thumbnail of each object having a lower evaluation value than an object of an erroneous confirmation image and allows the monitor to select a candidate image corresponding to the object to be tracked, and a tracking information corrector that corrects inter-camera tracking information such that the object of the selected candidate image is associated with the object to be tracked.

A fraudulent device detection system for a fuel pump. The system includes a sensor housed within a fuel pump. The sensor is placed behind a door of the fuel pump, which is activated when the door is opened. The sensor is connected to a camera. The camera is capable of taking video or pictures. The camera will begin capturing images when the sensor is activated. The camera is connected to a transceiver. The transceiver sends information from the camera to a plurality of storage devices. There is further an alarm trigger attached to the sensor. When the sensor is activated the alarm trigger, triggers an alarm such that a user is made aware of the fuel pump being opened.

A method and system for a configurable security and surveillance system are provided. A configurable security and surveillance system may comprise at least one programmable sensor agent and/or at least one programmable content analysis agent. A plurality of processing features may be offered by the configurable security and surveillance system by programming configurable hardware devices in the programmable sensor agents and/or the programmable content analysis agents via a system manager. Device programming files may be utilized to program the configurable hardware devices. The device programming files may be encrypted and decryption keys may be requested to enable the programming of different processing features into the programmable sensor agents and/or the programmable content analysis agents. The device programming files and/or the decryption keys may be received via a network transfer and/or via a machine-readable media from an e-commerce vendor.

Systems and methods are described for modifying a fast-forwarding speed based on a reaction time of a user when a frame of interest is detected. A media guidance application may receive a command from a user to fast-forward through a media asset and may execute a fast-forwarding operation through frames of the media asset. The media guidance application may detect that the fast-forwarding operation is approaching a frame of interest to the viewer. The media guidance application may reduce the fast-forwarding speed to a second speed slower than the first speed, where the second speed is determined based on an estimated reaction time of the user. The media guidance application may receive a command to resume playback from the user while the fast-forwarding operation is occurring at the second speed and may play back the media asset at a default playback speed from a point corresponding to a moment when the command was received.

Systems and methods for controlling the recording, storing and transmitting of video content captured by security cameras in order to drastically reduce the overall bandwidth required to remotely monitor a physical space. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of triggering or activating a video camera to record and/or transmit images of a physical environment over a network only when measurements taken by a separate structural sensor camera or depth-sensing device indicate that sufficient physical changes have occurred in the environment to warrant video recording. Embodiments of the invention pair video cameras with structural depth sensors, along with enhanced on-board processing techniques, to increase the recording and transmitting efficiency of video cameras by recording and/or transmitting video streams only when something in the physical environment monitored by a depth sensor is determined to have changed or moved, or is determined by processing algorithms to be important or significant. A security function and a library of image processing analytics are also disclosed for processing static and dynamic image states within the measured physical space.

Disclosed are a method and system for cloud storage of a video, and method and system for previewing a cloud-stored video. The method for the cloud storage of the video includes: after receiving a video recording plan issued by a platform, a management server determines a target storage device according to a load balancing policy, and issues the video recording plan to the target storage device; the target storage device obtains and stores, according to the video recording plan, a video stream from a front-end device corresponding to the video recording plan; when the target storage device is not able to obtain the video stream from the front-end device, the target storage device sends an alarm to the management server; and after receiving the alarm, the management server issues the video recording plan to other storage devices according to the load balancing policy.

A method and system provides centralized redundant monitoring suitable for effectively recording and tracking video monitoring systems at a plurality of remote surveillance locations. The method and system are configured to track, monitor, capture, and record video originating from transportation vehicles using a novel technological configuration that minimizes overall and sub-system downtime relative to conventional technologies. The remote surveillance locations are capable of utilizing self-healing and recovery mechanisms and reporting status information to the centralized monitoring system. The centralized monitoring system can use information received from the remote surveillance locations to remotely monitor the status of the remote surveillance systems, to initiate remotely self-healing and recovery mechanisms, and request previously recorded surveillance data and live surveillance data in real time.

In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a live media stream. The method also includes causing the live media stream to be progressively written to a recording device as an unprioritized background recording as the live media stream is received. The method also includes receiving an indication of an event start and, responsive to the indication of the event start, causing a change in recording such that the live media stream is progressively written to the recording device as a prioritized event recording. The method also includes receiving, via a user interface associated with the recording device, a user command to add pre-event-start media to the prioritized event recording. The method also includes, responsive to the user command, selecting a user-triggered segment of the unprioritized background recording for addition to the prioritized event recording. The method also includes adding the user-triggered segment to the prioritized event recording.

Methods and systems are described for storing video content collected by a home automation system. According to at least one embodiment, an apparatus for accessing video content collected by a home automation system includes a processor, a memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory which are executable by a processor to receive video content associated with an event, determine a priority level of the video content based on at least one predetermined criteria, and store the video content for a period of time based on the priority level.

A system and method for video surveillance and searching are disclosed. Video is analyzed and events are automatically detected. Based on the automatically detected events, textual descriptions are generated. The textual descriptions may be used to supplement video viewing and event viewing, and to provide for textual searching for events.