An image monitoring system includes: recording means for recording an image captured by a camera via a network; control means for controlling the system so as to display the present image captured by the camera or a past image recorded on the recording means on display means; and moving-object detecting means for detecting a moving object from the image captured by the camera; wherein the moving-object detecting means includes resolution conversion means for generating an image with a resolution lower than the resolution of the image captured by the camera, positional-information output means for detecting a moving object from the image generated by the resolution conversion means and outputting positional information on the detected moving object, and information merging means for merging the positional information of the moving object with the image captured by the camera on the basis of the positional information of the moving object output by the positional-information output means.

Technologies are generally described for prevention of duplicate monitored areas in a surveillance environment. In some examples, a field of view (FOV) of a security personnel may be estimated. An image capture device with a coverage area that potentially includes the FOV of the security personnel may be identified and its FOV estimated as well. Next, an overlap amount between the estimated FOVs of the image capture device and security personnel may be determined. When the overlap amount exceeds a threshold, content provided by the image capture device may be assigned a low priority. The low priority content may be blocked from display, selected with lower priority among multiple available contents, or displayed with an indication of the low priority on a control center display. The FOV of the security personnel may be an actual view of a person or the FOV of a camera associated with the security personnel.

Provided is a surveillance system including a communication module configured to receive a plurality of pieces of image data obtained by a plurality of camera modules, receive a multiple image data request from a client terminal, and transmit a multiple image data response including multiple image data to the client terminal; and a processer configured to generate the multiple image data by scaling the plurality of pieces of image data in response to the multiple image data request and combining a plurality of pieces of scaled image data, wherein the plurality of camera modules share one internet protocol (IP) address.

A system and method for dynamically ordering video streams on display in a command and control system according to video content, including obtaining a plurality of video streams captured by a plurality of respective video cameras; extracting features from the plurality of video streams; calculating abnormality scores for the extracted features, wherein each abnormality score measures a likelihood that a corresponding feature is an abnormal feature; calculating a current rank for ordering each of the plurality of video streams based on current and past abnormality scores of the features extracted from the video stream; and displaying a subgroup of the plurality of video streams having the highest subset of current ranks based on abnormality scores.

Some aspects of the present embodiments provide a method for setting an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device in a parcel protection mode. The method receives, form the A/V recording and communication device, a notification about a parcel being placed within an area about the A/V recording and communication device. The method receives a request for activating the parcel protection mode. Upon receiving the request, the method sends an activation signal to the A/V recording and communication device to set the A/V recording and communication device in the parcel protection mode.

A surveillance terminal apparatus includes a storage unit, a communication unit, a picture identifier, a reader, a facial recognition processor, a display unit, and a playback controller. The picture identifier identifies, as an entry picture and an exit picture, a part of the picture of a target person shot by an imaging device and stored in the storage unit. The facial recognition processor identifies both of the entry picture and the exit picture of the same target person, by performing facial recognition with respect to the entry picture and the exit picture read out by the reader. The playback controller changes playback times of the pictures corresponding to actual length of the pictures to the same playback time, when a difference between the playback times of the respective pictures exceeds a threshold, and causes the display unit to simultaneously play back both of the pictures side by side.

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 surveillance system and method for providing communication between wireless input capture devices, such as cameras. The system has multiple capture devices configured to capture video and/or still images of a target environment. The system can detect events, notify users, and provide data to a user upon request. Capture devices are capable of smart cross-communication with each other and/or a base system.

A mesh network-based environmental data capture system and method for providing communication between a base system having at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and other ICD(s), wherein the ICD(s) are capable of smart cross-communication with each other and remote access to their inputs via a server computer, including the steps of providing this base system; at least one user accessing the ICDs and inputs remotely via a user interface through a remote server computer and/or electronic device communicating with it, for providing a secure surveillance system with extended inputs range and wireless smart cross-communication for monitoring a target environment.

In a monitoring system, when a monitoring display instruction is received from a smartphone, a master device transmits an image transmission request to a plurality of cameras, each of the cameras transmits image data obtained by an image capturing unit to the master device in response to the image transmission request from the master device, the master device generates a plurality of separate images in order to display images from the plurality of cameras on a single screen in a distributed manner, and transmits image data of a monitoring screen of the plurality of separate images to the smartphone, and the smartphone includes a display/input unit and displays the monitoring screen of the plurality of separate images transmitted from the master device on the display/input unit.