GB2280565A - Mobile landscape recording unit - Google Patents
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Abstract
A road vehicle landscape recording unit equipped with electronic camera and recording equipment, computer analysis equipment, monitor screens and radio telephone information transmission means for connection to a police central computer information exchanger, which landscape recording unit when on patrol may continously record the landscapes of a patrol circuit, and thus frequently record each landscape, thus permitting the distinction to be indicated by computer analyses between pre-recorded habitual circumstances within any landscape, and incident circumstances, in order to identify by logiciel any vehicle used in incident circumstances at the time and in the vicinity of a crime, thereby making the theft of vehicles more difficult, and making the use of any vehicle for criminal acts much more difficult.
Description
LANDSCAPE RECORDING MOBIL UNIT FOR ANALYSES IN CRIME DETECTION.
This invention in the form of a road patrol unit for the electronic recording of landscape provides a means of preventing crime by deterrence , by providing a warning to criminels that the operation of the invention is likely to lead to their identification , after many kinds of criminal acts, that can be committed in built-up areas . The invention may also prevent crime by the immediate interception of criminels.
This description of the invention is intended to be preliminary. The operation of the invention is by the frequent road or street patrol of mobil landscape recording units , based on the consideration that criminals usually use road vehicules to approach the scene of their crime and to leave the crime area .The invention will usefully identify vehicules used by criminals , even if they have been stolen , and may identify the criminels
The purpose of the invention is to permit a dated and timed visual electronic recording of streets and roads in towns and cities . Street and road scenes in a specific area may be recorded once per day or several times per hour , or continuously for periods of several days or several months in order to provide an electronic library of general conditions.The recordings may be viewed on a screen and electronically analysed at high speed immediately after recording ,or later , for recordings of a particular spot and for recordings made at a particular time and date , and
within a surrounding area , each time that a crime is reported at a particular time at a particular spot , even if no recording was made of the spot at the particular time since a patrolling mobil recording unit may well incidently record the arrival or the departure of the criminels , at some distance from the place of the crime , within a suitable pat role time span , which may be up to fifteen minutes before the crime and up to fifteen minutes after the crime for a recording unit patrolling at a speed of forty kilometres per hour over a circuit distance of ten kilometres .Vehicules used by criminels at a break-in may be parked for five or ten minutes at the scene of the crime, and may thus be detected by a landscape recording unit passing every fifteen minutes . This system would thus oblige criminels to use only stolen vehicules . However electronic applications are about to make the theft of vehicules much more difficult,apart from the increased risk of being detected in a stolen vehicule as a result of the operation of the mobil recording unit
The mobil landscape recording unit will distinguish two kinds of view or landscape ; habitual conditions and circumstances and incident circumstances .Cars which are left by their owners in front of their homes or places of work , will be computer analysed as belonging to habituel conditions and circumstances , while any vehicule which has not usually been recorded at a particular spot over a previous determined period , whether parked or in movement will be classed by the analysing computer as belonging to incident conditions and circumstances.Vehicules may be electronically identified by number plates, by make and type, and by colour , by viewing equipment functioning at night under street lighting as well as by day
It is envisaged that the electronique recording and analysing equipment suitable for use in the mobil landscape recording units may be purchased from equipment available for general use that is now on the market , and that the road vehicles which are suitable for the installation of the landscape recording equipment are also now on the market
The combination of these equipments for the particular stated purpose constitutes the invention
The electronic equipment to be operated within the landscape recording unit will be a number of landscape viewers similar to hand held electronic cameras , which will transmit the landscapes as numerical information or other kinds of information to discs in computers .The discs may be both of the hard type and interchangable in order to form a central library or information bank
The computers will be supplied with a logiciel and similar equipment to distinguish habitual landscape from incident landscape ,and to identify all types of road vehicles . Each landscape will be identifiable by an inset on monitor screens showing date, time, and location . The location may be supplied by computer recognition of the landscape , and an inset may permit the reading of vehicle identification information .A synthetic voice may also supply incident information . The habitual landscape may be viewed on a monitor screen.The incident landscape and information may be set out upon another monitor screen for better concentration on this information
The landscape information recorded by the mobil recording unit may be relayed by radio telephone to a powerful central computer , for a full exchange of information . This information may be sent out by radio telephone to the computers of all mobil recording units on patrol in the area. All information received and sent out by the central computer will be automatically compared by the central computer with available background or habitual circumstances information, in order to throw into relief all incident information .It is expected that compressed viewing information will soon be available through a single telephone line
The landscape viewers or cameras may be set on a horizontal plane within the mobil recording unit , each at an appropriate angle in order to obtain suitable views of the landscape . One view may be ahead of the recording unit, and one view behind , with the rear view camera situated at an angle of 180 degrees from the line of view of the ahead camera .Another landscape viewer may be positioned to the right of the ahead camera , at ninety degrees , and a fourth camera to the left , at 270 degrees
The electrical power required for the landscape viewers and computer system may derive from the motor of the mobile recording unit
The mobil recording unit may partly consist of any suitable type of road vehicle , which may be specially constructed or adapted for the purpose oflandscape recording, or which may be a vehicle that does not require any major adaptation , but only minor adaptation for a proper installation and positioning of the recording equipment , and the provision of suitable electrical power
The landscape mobil recording unit may operate on a patrol circuit , while patrolling at any suitable speed which may be the same speed as other road traffic . On a road or street patrol in a town or city , a suitable average speed may be about 40 kilometres per hour . At this speed , if the patrol circuit is arranged to be a distance of ten kilometres , the same landscapes may be recorded and analysed every fifteen minutes , thus bringing to notice any change in circumstances and incidents. In busy city street scenes and at night in quiet roads the reporting of any crime by time and location will bring about a computor listing of all recorded incidents which may be related by time and location to the crime . A patrol circuit of forty kilometers carried out at an average speed of forty kilometers per hour , will provide landscape recordings that are analysed once per hour
It is supposed that the operation of a mobil recording unit will reqire a crew consisting of a driver and an equipment operator . In an area which includes two or three average size towns , a number of mobile recording units may patrol main roads and motor lanes or highways at a fairly high speed , while another group of recording units patrols town streets . In large cities , one group of recording units will patrol side streets , while another group patrols main roads connecting different parts of the city . There will thus be a double possibility of detection . Further, this detection may take place while the crime is being committed or while the criminels are trying to make their get-away, or some time afterwards ,by subsequent computer analysis
The operation of mobil recording unit patrols may be carried out by private companies in order to relieve police forces of this information gathering task
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1. A computer logiciel programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously refering to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes , as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances , according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing of a landscape, in order tnat the logiciel may cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens , the incident events and circumstances only , for better concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief , when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens 2.A computer logiciel as in Claim 1 , programmed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes , including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken , with previously taken images, views and landscapes street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes , or with reference to fixed background points , such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order to identify a non-regular presence , by search , comparison , and elimination , and to recognize handwriting , as being in conformity or not with previous views of handwriting , in order to identify torged signatures and forged documents : the computer logiciel programmation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art , with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means , such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes representing images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system , and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means 3.The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , either at set points or upon mobil patrol units , or by mobil units stationed at set points , providing information to a computer equipped with a logiciel as in claim 1 , to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area 4. A video camera landscape recording patrol unit , which may be a road vehicule , being provided during manufacture and before retail sale , with fixture points , and with a suitable disposition of suitably mounted video cameras in order to take views at all suitable angles while feeding the latest viewed information of the landscape area by means of suitable electronic equipment or by other means, to a carried computer or to a central computer , to permit the operation of the logiciel described in claim 1.
Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows CLAIMS
1. A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection , a principal form of the invention , which may be a suitable type of road vehicle ,by the provision on the mobil unit, and at a central point, of component equipment, including a carried computer or a central computer , a programmed logiciel instrument, computer storage discs , data transmission equipment , incident monitor viewing screens and carried video cameras,for mobil unit patrol application or operation throughout large areas, including towns and cities , by the automatic video identification and automatic screen presentation of situations circumstances and events which do not regularly occur at any particular locality , such as the visit of criminials , based on the consideration that road transport is used for a very high percentage of all types of crime , and that continuous filming by video cameras of street scenes and motorways provides a means of identification of criminals and of the road transport that they use ; and based upon the consideration that a suitably programmed or prepared computer logiciel instrument may be caused to continuously refer to stored information representing landscapes and views that have been previously recorded ,over a period of hours or days, months or years , in order to register regular situations and circumstances , and to compare at very high speed past views and landscapes with those that are or were being filmed at any given time , so that whatever is new at any particular locality at any particular time ,within the recording of later or latest landscape views, may be caused by the logiciel instrument to be distinguished from usual events , situations and circumstances ,in that locality , and to be automatically presented on a monitor screen , in order to save the time required by manual search : the operation of the programmed logiciel instrument being carried out by a number of componant equipment parts , being a combination of equipments , and by their proper componant coordination ; this component coordination being ,dispersed video cameras ,a means of camera dispersion ,the prepared logiciel instrument , operating within a computer, and an automatically referred to electronic landscape view comparison reference library , suitable video data transmission equipment, suitable computer equipment, and suitable screen viewing equipment 2.A combination of equipments as in Claim 1 ,including a logiciel instrument ,a component part of the invention , programmed to operate in conjuction with the equipment combination , which may include video cameras ,video camera area dispersion patrol means ,such as road vehicles and aircraft or helicopters , video data transmission means computers and accessories, a computer automatic comparison reference library of previous views, stored by electronic means, and video screen viewing means , which combination of equipments, when operating together, provide a new technical service , that of the instant viewing of any unusual event occurring or that has occurred within a defined area , to the exclusion of usual and normal events and situations thereby providing an invention which is expected to be of use in crime detection , by saving search time in searches through video tapes , and also by providing almost instant warning or early warning or indication of criminal actions , and by permitting the departure routes of criminals to be traced in streets and on motorways as they leave the scene of a crime.
3. A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1 and 2 , a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously refering to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes , as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances , according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing of a landscape, in order that the logiciel instrument may cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens the incident events and circumstances only , for better concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed , together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens 4.A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, and 3 ,a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken , with previously taken images, views and landscapes , street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes , or with reference to fixed background points , such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order to identify a non-regular presence , by search, comparison , and elimination , the computer logiciel programmation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art , with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means , such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes representing images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system , and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means 5.The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , a componant part of the invention , upon mobil patrol units , as in Claim 1 , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area 6.A video camera landscape recording patrol unit ,as in Claim 1, a componant part of the invention , which may be a road vehicule , being provided during manufacture and before retail sale , with rapid type installation and removal equipment fixture points , and with a suitable disposition for suitably mounted video cameras, in order to take views at all suitable angles , while feeding the latest viewed information of the landscape area by means of suitable electronic equipment or by other means, to a carried computer or to a central computer , to permit the operation of the logiciel described in claim 1.
7. Computer storage discs providing a library of previously taken landscape views , as in Claim 1 , a componant part of the invention permitting the logiciel instrument to scan previous landscape views in order to compere them with landscape views that are being taken , or latest landscape views , in order to distinguish usual and normal events and circumstances from incidents or unusual situations 8. Patrol unit computers and a central computer , as in Claim 1 being a componant part of the invention , feeding incident information to monitor viewing screens 9. Monitor viewing screens , as in Claim 1 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the viewing of incident information within landscape views 10.Data transmission equipment , as in Claim 1 ,a componant part of the invention , permitting the transmission of data from the video cameras to the monitor incident viewing screens , through the computer 11. A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection , and its equipment , substantially as described above 12.A landscape recording equipment combination for analyses in crime detection, being a secondary form of the invention , by the provision of component equipment,at a central point, and video cameras, suitably dispersed in towns and cities , in roads , streets ,and motorways ; the equipment combination being a number of dispersed video cameras ,a central computer , a programmed logiciel instrument, computer storage discs , data transmission equipment ,and incident monitor viewing screens ,for operation throughout large areas, including towns and cities , by the automatic video identification and automatic screen presentation of situations , circumstances and events which do not regularly occur at any particular locality , such as the visit of criminials , mainly based on the consideration that road transport is used for a very high percentage of all types of crime , and that continuous filming by video cameras of street scenes and motorways provides a means of identification of criminals and of the road transport that they use ; and based upon the consideration that a suitably programmed or prepared computer logiciel instrument may be caused to continuously refer to stored information representing landscapes and views that have been previously recorded ,over a period of hours or days, months or years , in order to register regular situations and circumstances , and to compare at very high speed past views and landscapes with those that are or were being filmed at any given time , so that whatever is new at any particular locality at any particular time ,within the recording of later or latest landscape views, may be caused by the logiciel instrument to be distinguished from usual events , situations and circumstances ,in that locality , and to be automatically presented on a monitor screen , in order to save the time required by manual search through video tapes : the operation of the programmed logiciel instrument being carried out by a number of componant equipment parts , being a combination of equipments , and by their proper componant coordination ; this component coordination being the operation of the prepared logiciel instrument , operating within a computer, and an automatically referred-to electronic landscape-view comparison reference library , and being the suitable dispersion in towns and cities , in streets and on motorways, of video cameras , and being suitable video data transmission equipment, suitable computer equipment, and suitable screen viewing equipment 13.A combination of equipments , as in claim 12 , including a logiciel instrument, a component part of the invention , programmed to operate in cobjuction with the equipment combination , which may include suitably dispersed video cameras , video data transmission means computers and accessories, a computer automatic comparison reference library of previous views, stored by electronic means, and video screen viewing means , which combination ot equipments, when operating together, provide a new technical service , that of the instant viewing of any unusual event occurring or that has occurred within a defined area , to the exclusion of usual and normal events and situations thereby providing a form of the invention which is expected to be of use in crime detection , by saving search time in searches through video tapes , and also by providing almost instant warning or early warning or indication of criminal actions , and by permitting the arrival and departure routes of criminals to be traced, in streets and on motorways, as they are shown to arrive at and as they are shown to leave the scene of a crime.
14. A computer logiciel instrument , as in claim 13 , a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously referring to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes , as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances , according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing ot a landscape, in order that the logiciel instrument may cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens the incident events and circumstances only , for better concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed , together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens 15. The suitable dispersion by suitable means within a defined area, of a number of video viewing cameras , a component part of the invention , as in claims 12 and 13 , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a logiciel instrument, to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area 16. A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 12, 13,and 14, a component part of the invention , programmed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken , with previously taken images, views and landscapes , street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes , or with reference to fixed background points , such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of Persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order to identify a non-regular presence , by search, comparison , and elimination , and to recognize handwriting , as being in conformity or not with previous views of handwriting , in order to identify forged signatures and forged documents : the computer logiciel programmation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art , with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means , such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes representing images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system , and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means 17.The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , a component part of the secondary form of the invention , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with å logiciel instrument as in Claims 12,13, and 14, to throw into relief on a monitor screen all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area 18. Computer storage discs providing a library of previously taken landscape views , as in Claims 12 and 13 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the logiciel instrument to scan previous landscape views in order to compare them with landscape views that are being taken , or latest landscape views , in order to distinguish usual and normal events and circumstances from incidents or unusual situations.
19. A central computer , as in Claim 12 , being a componant part of the invention , feeding incident information to monitor viewing screens 20. Monitor viewing screens , as in Claim 12 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the viewing of incident information within landscape views 21. Data transmission equipment , as in Claim 12 ,a componant part of the invention , permitting the transmission of data from the video cameras to the monitor incident viewing screens , through the computer and its equipment 22. A landscape recording combination of equipment for analyses in crime detection , as in claims 12 to 21 , substantially as described herein
Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows
CLAIMS
1.A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection , which may be a suitable type of road vehicle ,by the provision on the mobil unit and at a central point, of componant equipment, including carried video cameras , a carried computer or a central computer , a programmed logiciel instrument, computer storage discs , data transmission equipment ,and incident monitor viewing screens ,for mobil unit patrol application or operation throughout large areas, including towns and cities , by the automatic video identification and automatic screen presentation of situations circumstances and events which do not regularly occur at any particular locality , such as the visit of criminials , based on the consideration that road transport is used for a very high percentage of all types of crime , and that continuous filming by video cameras of street scenes and motorways provides a means of identification of criminals and of the road transport that they use ; and based upon the consideration that a suitably programmed or prepared computer logiciel instrument may be caused to continuously refer to stored information representing landscapes and views that have been previously recorded ,over a period of hours or days, months or years , in order to register regular situations and circumstances , and to compare at very high speed past views and landscapes with those that are or were being filmed at any given time , so that whatever is new at any particular locality at any particular time ,within the recording of later or latest landscape views, may be caused by the logiciel instrument to be distinguished from usual events , situations and circumstances ,in that locality , and to be automatically presented on a monitor screen , in order to save the time required by manual search : the operation of the programmed logiciel instrument being carried out by a number of componant equipment parts , being a combination of equipments , and by their proper componant coordination ; this component coordination being the landscape recording mobil unit , which may be a suitable type of road vehicle ,the prepared logiciel instrument , operating within a computer, and an automatically referred to electronic landscape view comparison reference library , and being the suitable installation on mobil road patrol units or on sea or air units of video cameras , in possible conjuction with the suitable area dispersion at set points'of video cameras , and being suitable video data transmission equipment, suitable computer;;;.. equipment, and suitable screen viewing equipment 2.A combination of equipments as in Claim 1 ,including a logiciel instrument ,a componant part of the invention , programmed to operate in conjuction with the equipment combination , which may include video cameras ,video camera area dispersion patrol means ,such as road vehicles and aircraft or helicopters , video data transmission means computers and accessories, a computer automatic comparison reference library of previous views, stored by electronic means, and video screen viewing means , which combination of equipments, when operating together, provide a new technical service , that of the instant viewing of any unusual event occurring or that has occurred within a defined area , to the exclusion of of usual and normal events and situations thereby providing an invention which is expected to be of use in crime detection , by saving search time in searches through video tapes , and also by providing almost instant warning or early warning or indication of criminal actions , and by permitting the departure routes of criminals to be traced in streets and on motorways as they leave the scene of a crime.
3. A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1 and 2 , a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously refering to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes , as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances , according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing of a landscape, in order that the logiciel instrument may cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens the incident events and circumstances only , for better concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed , together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens 4.A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, and 3 ,a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken , with previously taken images, views and landscapes , street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes , or with reference to fixed background points , such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order.to identify a non-regular presence , by search, comparison , and elimination , and to recognize handwriting , as being in conformity or not with previous views of handwriting , in order to identify forged signatures and forged documents : the computer logiciel progra--ation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art , with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means , such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes representing images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system , and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means 5. The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , a componant part of the invention , upon- mobil patrol units , as in Claim 1 , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area 6.A video camera landscape recording patrol unit ,as in Claim 1, a componant part of the invention , which may be a road vehicule , being provided during manufacture and before retail sale , with rapid type installation and removal equipment fixture points , and with a suitable disposition for suitably mounted video cameras in order to take views at all suitable angles , while feeding the latest viewed information of the landscape area by means of suitable electronic equipment or by other means, to a carried computer or to a central computer , to permit the operation of the logiciel described in claim 1.
7. Computer storage discs providing a library of previously taken landscape views , as in Claim 1 , a componant part of the invention permitting the logiciel instrument to scan previous landscape views in order to compare them with landscape views that are being taken , or latest landscape views , in order to distinguish usual and normal events and circumstances from incidents or unusual situations 8. Patrol unit computers and a central computer , as in Claim 1 being a componant part of the invention , feeding incident information to monitor viewing screens 9. Monitor viewing screens , as in Claim 1 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the viewing of incident information within landscape views 10.Data transmission equipment , as in Claim 1 ,a componant part of the invention , permitting the transmission of data from the video cameras to the monitor incident viewing screens , through the computer 11. A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection , and its equipment , substantially as described herein
Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows
CLAIMS
1.A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection , a principal form of the invention , which may be a suitable type of road vehicle ,by the provision on the mobil unit, and at a central point, of component equipment, including a carried computer or a central computer , a programmed logiciel instrument, computer storage discs , data transmission equipment , incident monitor viewing screens and carried video cameras,for mobil unit patrol application or operation throughout large areas, including towns and cities by the automatic video identification and automatic screen presentation of situations , circumstances and events which do not regularly occur at any particular locality , such as the visit of criminials , based on the consideration that road transport is used for a very high percentage of all types of crime , and that continuous filming by video cameras of street scenes and motorways provides a means of identification of criminals and of the road transport that they use ; and based upon the consideration that a suitably programmed or prepared computer logiciel instrument may be caused to continuously refer to stored information representing landscapes and views that have been previously recorded ,over a period of hours or days, months or years , in order to register regular situations and circumstances , and to compare at very high speed past views and landscapes with those that are or were
being filmed at any given time , so that whatever is new at any particular locality at any particular time ,within'the recording of later or latest landscape views, may be caused by the logiciel instrument to be distinguished from usual events , situations and circumstances ,in that locality , and to be automatically presented on a monitor screen , in order to save the time required by manual search : the operation of the programmed logiciel instrument being carried out b-y a number of componant equipment parts , being a combination of equipments , and by their proper componant coordination this component coordination being ,dispersed video cameras ,a means of camera dispersion ,the prepared logiciel instrument operating within a computer, and an automatically referred to electronic landscape view comparison reference library suitable video data transmission equipment, suitable computer equipment, and suitable screen viewing equipment
2.A combination of equipments as in Claim 1 ,including a logiciel instrument ,a component part of the invention programmed to operate in conjuction with the equipment combination , which may include video cameras ,video camera area dispersion patrol means ,such as road vehicles and aircraft or helicopters , video data transmission means computers and accessories, a computer automatic comparison reference library of previous views, stored by electronic means, and video screen viewing means , which combination of equipments, when operating together, provide a new technical service , that of the instant viewing of any unusual event
occurring or that has occurred within a defined area , to the exclusion of usual and normal events and situations thereby providing an invention which is expected to be of use in crime detection , by saving search time in searches through video tapes , and also by providing almost instant warning or early warning or indication of criminal actions , and by permitting the departure routes of criminals to be traced in streets and on motorways as they leave the scene of a crime.
3. A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1 and 2 , a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously refering to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing of a landscape, in order that the logiciel instrumentmay cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens , the incident events and circumstances only , for better
concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief , when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens
4.A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, and 3 ,a componant part of the invention , programed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes , including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken with previously taken images, views and landscapes, street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes or with reference to fixed background points , such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order to identify a non-regular presence , by search, comparison , and elimination , the computer logiciel programmation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art , with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means , such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes representing
images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system
and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means
5.The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , a componant part of the invention upon mobil patrol units , as in Claim 1 , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a logiciel instrument as in Claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area
6.A video camera landscape recording patrol unit ,as in
Claim 1, a componant part of the invention , which may be a road vehicule , being provided during manufacture or after manufacture with fixture points for rapid installation and removal of equipment , and with a suitable disposition for suitably mounted video cameras, in order to take views at all suitable angles , while feeding the latest viewed information of the landscape area by means of suitable electronic equipment or by other means, to a carried computer or to a central computer , to permit the operation of the logiciel described in claim 1.
7. Computer storage discs providing a library of previously taken landscape views , as in Claim 1 , a componant
part of the invention , permitting the logiciel instrument to scan previous landscape views in order to compare them with landscape views that are being taken , or latest landscape views , in order to distinguish usual and normal events and circumstances from incidents or unusual situations
8. Patrol unit computers and a central computer , as in
Claim 1 , being a componant part of the invention , feeding incident information to monitor viewing screens
9.Monitor viewing screens , as in Claim 1 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the viewing of incident information within landscape views 10. Data transmission equipment , as in Claim 1 ,a componant part of the invention , permitting the transmission of data from the video cameras to the monitor incident viewing screens , through the computer
11. A landscape recording mobil unit for analyses in crime detection, and its equipment,substantially as described above.
12 A landscape recording equipment combination for analyses in crime detection, being a secondary form of the invention , by the provision of component equipment,at a central point, and video cameras, suitably dispersed in towns and cities , in roads , streets ,and motorways ; the equipment combination being a number of dispersed video cameras ,a central computer , a programmed logiciel instrument, computer storage discs , data transmission equipment ,and incident
monitor viewing screens ,for operation throughout large areas, including towns and cities , by the automatic video identification and automatic screen presentation of situations
circumstances and events which do not regularly occur at any particular locality , such as the visit of criminials , mainly based on the consideration that road transport is used for a very high percentage of all types of crime , and that continuous filming by video cameras of street scenes ond motorways provides a means of identification of criminals and of the road transport that they use ; and based upon the consideration that a suitably programmed or prepared computer logiciel instrument may be caused to continuously refer to stored information representing landscapes and views that have been previously recorded ,over a period of hours or days, months or years , in order to register regular situations and circumstances , and to compare at very high speed past views and landscapes with those that are or were being filmed at any given time , so that whatever is new at any particular locality at any particular time ,within the recording of later or latest landscape views, may be caused by the logiciel instrument to be distinguished from usual events , situations and circumstances ,in that locality, and to be automatically presented on a monitor screen , in order to save the time required by manual search through video tapes : the operation of the programmed logiciel instrument being carried out by a number of componant equipment parts , being a combination of equipments , and by their proper componant coordination
this component coordination being the operation of the prepared logiciel instrument , operating within a computer, and an automatically referred-to electronic landscape-view comparison reference library , and being the suitable dispersion in towns and cities , in streets and on motorways, of video cameras , and being suitable video data transmission equipment, suitable computer equipment, and suitable screen viewing equipment
13.A combination of equipments , as in claim 12 including a logiciel instrument, a component part of the invention , programmed to operate in conjuction with the equipment combination , which may include suitably dispersed video cameras , video data transmission means , computers and accessories, a computer automatic comparison reference library of previous views, stored by electronic means, and video screen viewing means , which combination of equipments, when operating together, provide a new technical service , -that of the instant viewing of any unusual event occurring or that has occurred within a defined area , to the exclusion of usual and normal events and situations , thereby providing a form of the invention which is expected to be of use in crime detection , by saving search time in searches through video tapes , and also by providing almost instant warning or early warning or indication of criminal actions , and by permitting the arrival and departure routes of criminals to be traced, in streets and on motorways, as they are shown to arrive at and as they are shown to leave the scene of a crime.
14. A computer logiciel instrument , as in claim 13 , a componant part of the invention , programmed or prepared to continuously read and appreciate at very high speed sequences of video camera views which are being taken of landscapes , while continuously referring to a memory or bank or library of previously taken views of the same landscapes as a means of comparison, in order to automatically distingish at very high speed , conditions in the latest landscapes which are being viewed or recorded , as being habitual conditions and circumstances or incident conditions and circumstances according to events and conditions which regularly occurred in the sequences that are scanned for comparison , and events and conditions which the logiciel establishes as occurring for the first time , as an incident or incidents , in a latest viewing of a landscape, in order that the logiciel instrument may cause to be viewed on an inset of a monitor viewing screen or upon one or more separate monitor viewing screens , incident events and circumstances only , for better concentration upon essential incident information , which is thus thrown into relief , when this information consists of unusual events and circumstances , as against all usual information within the landscape views , which may be viewed together with the incidents ,on secondary monitor screens
15. The suitable dispersion by suitable means within a defined area, of a number of video viewing cameras , a component part of the invention , as in claims 12 and 13 providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a
logiciel instrument, to throw into relief all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area
16.A computer logiciel instrument as in Claims 12, 13,and 14, a component part of the invention , programmed or prepared in conjunction with appropriate computer equipment and appropriate data transmission equipment , to almost instantly compare images , views and landscapes , including street scenes and highway traffic scenes , which are being taken , with previously taken images, views and landscapes street scenes and highway traffic scenes , in order to distinguish new circumstances , new situations , and new objects , and change , with reference to the fixed part of the landscapes , or with reference to fixed background points such as a reference grid , and to recognize the forms of objects , such as the makes of road vehicles , for identification , and the forms of persons , and to recognize faces by comparison in order to identify by elimination newly viewed faces , and to recognize or read road vehicle number plates , in order to identify a non-regular presence , by search, comparison , and elimination , and to recognize handwriting , as being in conformity or not with previous views of handwriting , in order to identify forged signatures and forged documents : the computer logiciel programmation or preparation being undertaken by means known to the art with the use of appropriate computer equipment and means such as the scanning and comparison of binary codes
representing images, for easy and immediate computer comparison and identification , and with means for transforming the scanned results into images and written data and voice data ; and the use of recent communication means such as the numeris system , and by the use of recent large quantity information storage systems and means
17.The dispersion within a defined area of a number of video viewing cameras , a component part of the secondary form of the invention , providing landscape information to a computer equipped with a logiciel instrument as in Claims 12,13, and 14, to throw into relief on a monitor screen all unusual events , incidents and circumstances in the landscapes within the viewed area .8. Computer storage discs providing a library of previously taken landscape views , as in Claims 12 and 13 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the logiciel instrument to scan previous landscape views in order to compare them with landscape views that are being taken , or latest landscape views , in order to distinguish usual and normal events and circumstances from incidents or unusual situations.
19. A central computer , as in Claim 12 , being a componant part of the invention , feeding incident information to monitor viewing screens
20. Monitor viewing screens , as in Claim 12 , a componant part of the invention , permitting the viewing of incident information within landscape views
21. Data transmission equipment , as in Claim 12 ,a componant part of the invention , permitting the transmission of data from the video cameras to the monitor incident viewing screens , through the computer and its equipment
22. A landscape recording combination of equipment for analyses in crime detection , as in claims 12 to 21 substantially as described herein
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