An apparatus includes a video capture device and a processor. The video capture device may be mounted at a low position. The video capture device may be configured to generate a plurality of video frames that capture a field of view upward from the low position. The processor may be configured to perform video operations to generate dewarped frames from the video frames and detect objects in the dewarped frames, extract data about the objects based on characteristics of the objects determined using said video operations, perform path planning in response the extracted data and generate a video stream based on the dewarped frames. The video operations may generate the dewarped frames to correct a distortion effect caused by capturing the video frames from the low position. The path planning may be used to move the apparatus to a new location. The apparatus may be capable of autonomous movement.

An image capturing apparatus that includes a moving unit that moves an image capturing area: performs a tracking control for detecting a tracking target from a captured video image, and tracking the tracking target while controlling the moving unit to move the image capturing area of the image capturing apparatus; obtains information indicating a state of movement control of the image capturing area that is performed by the moving unit; transmits a response that includes the information indicating the obtained movement control state, to an external apparatus in accordance with a request from the external apparatus; and changes the information indicating the movement control state that is to be included in the response, based on a state of tracking that is performed in the tracking control.

Managing device settings on multiple devices, including: creating a first group of devices including two or more devices, wherein each device in the first group has at least one first device setting; creating a second group of devices including two or more devices, wherein each device in the second group has at least one second device setting and each device in the second group is not in the first group; sending the at least one first device setting to each device in the first group of devices in parallel, so that each device in the first group changes at least one device setting according to the at least one received first device setting; and sending the at least one second device setting to each device in the second group of devices in parallel, so that each device in the second group changes at least one device setting according to the at least one received second device setting.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on storage devices, for monitoring, security, and surveillance of a property. In one aspect, a system includes a virtual reality headset, a plurality of cameras, a plurality of sensors that includes a first sensor, a control unit, wherein the control unit includes a network interface, a processor, a storage device that includes instructions to perform operations that comprise receiving data from the first sensor that is indicative of an alarm event, determining a location of the first sensor, identifying a set of one or more cameras from the plurality of cameras that are associated with the first sensor, selecting a particular camera from the identified set of one or more cameras; and transmitting one or more instructions to the particular camera that command the particular camera to stream a live video feed to a user interface of the virtual reality headset.

A method for forming a processed video stream, comprising: capturing a first part of an input video stream using a camera; transmitting the first part of the video stream to a processing facility remote from the camera; at the processing facility, designating a first sub-region of the first part of the video stream for further processing; in dependence on the designation of a first sub-region, forming a first cropped video stream by cropping the first part of the video stream to that sub-region; forming the processed video stream incorporating the first cropped video stream.

To propose a novel and improved equipment controlling apparatus by which appropriate monitoring can be performed for a person who is neither a family member nor a suspicious person.

There is provided an equipment controlling apparatus that includes a storage section that stores a time frame within which a setting of operation of a device disposed in a predetermined region is to be changed, and a control section that controls the device to change operation between a time frame set in advance in the storage section and a time frame different from the time frame.

A control apparatus includes an angle control unit configured to change an angle between an imaging plane of an image sensor and a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of an imaging lens, an acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of a specific area of an image, and a management unit configured to change the positional information based on the angle.

Provided is a technique for enhancing operability of a mobile apparatus. An information processing apparatus (2000) includes a first processing unit (2020), a second processing unit (2040), and a control unit (2060). The first processing unit (2020) generates information indicating an event detection position in accordance with a position on a surveillance image set in a first operation. The first operation is an operation with respect to the surveillance image displayed on a display screen. The second processing unit (2040) performs a display change process with respect to the surveillance image or a window including the surveillance image. The control unit (2060) causes any one of the first processing unit (2020) and the second processing unit (2040) to process the first operation on the basis of a second operation.

The present invention involves a security system and method for monitoring and controlling a person's select activity with a select object with and without electronic imaging, while communicating and recording such interaction to a remote device. The system comprises a specialized computing device comprising a capacitance charge controller, a detection electrode, a wireless means of communications, a remote monitoring device capable of receiving a control signal directly or indirectly from the capacitance charge controller, at least one annunciator, at least one processor, an imaging device and at least one non-transitory computer readable medium. The method comprises receiving data from a specialized communication device, over a cellular, wireless, satellite, or other network to a special purpose computer with a non-transitory computer readable medium.

Provided is a method of controlling a monitoring camera. In the method, a live-view video is displayed on a first region of a display panel, and a plurality of angle-range icons corresponding to panning angle-ranges or tilting angle-ranges is displayed on a second region of the display panel. When one of the plurality of angle-range icons is selected, a control signal for executing panning or tilting at a representative angle of a panning angle-range or tilting angle-range of the selected angle-range icon is transmitted to the monitoring camera.