KR20110023632A - Apparatus for processing event and method for distributing event - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same are provided to increase the efficiency of an event process by distributing an event to a control PC according to an event allocation rule. CONSTITUTION: An event manager(130) distributes an event to a control PC(300) according to an event allocation rule. An event processing result storage unit(126) receives and stores a event processing result. An event information storage unit(122) stores event information about an event. An event searcher(140) searches event information corresponding to a search request and transmits event information to the control PC.

Description

Event processing apparatus and event distribution method using the same {Apparatus for processing event and method for distributing event}

An event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same.

Digital video recorder (DVR) is a high-resolution video surveillance system that can convert analog image signals input from several surveillance cameras into digital signals and compress them, so that they can be recorded for a long time, quickly searched, and reproduced clearly. .

Such a digital video recorder is installed in a security-intensive place such as a large-scale collective house or a museum or a bank to record and record an image, or output the image on a screen in real time, thereby detecting an intruder or reporting an emergency situation.

In addition, as the demand for video surveillance system increases, the development of security equipment is increasing, and the number of installed cameras is increasing accordingly, and as the number of cameras increases and the utilization of the security equipment increases, the use of the camera in places where personal privacy is required is required. Installation is increasing.

Meanwhile, according to the development of a digital video recorder, not only an image input through a camera but also an event occurrence may be detected and an additional function may be performed accordingly. That is, the digital video recorder receives the event signal from the camera and stores the image data according to the occurrence of the event signal, so that the controller (person in charge) can retrieve the image data according to the event.

However, in the related art, since a plurality of digital video recorders are connected to a plurality of digital video recorders and perform event monitoring, all the events need to be searched for each digital video recorder.

In other words, each digital video recorder is connected to multiple cameras and stores all the event data for the event signals from each camera. Therefore, the monitoring personnel must search all events by digital video recorder. do. In addition, since a tedious search must be performed on contents that are not directly related to an event to be handled by the control agent, there is an unnecessary cost in event processing.

Thus, a need arises for more efficient event handling.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same, by which events are distributed to a plurality of control PCs according to an event distribution rule, thereby enhancing the efficiency of event distribution and event processing.

In addition, the present invention is set to the control PC to receive the event is absent, the response to the event processing is delayed by exceeding the threshold time from the control PC that is distributed the event, or from the control PC receiving the event for the event If there is a request to return or a request to forward the event from the control PC that received the event to another control PC, the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same, which can prevent the omission of an urgent event and its loss, and perform interactive event distribution with a control PC. .

In addition, the present invention is faster and more effective by allowing an event to be distributed according to an event distribution rule determined through at least one of the priority per event, priority per control PC, event distribution setting value per camera, and event throughput per control PC. An object of the present invention is to provide an event processing apparatus capable of performing event distribution and an event distribution method using the same.

In addition, the present invention, if there is a search request for a specific event from the control PC by searching the event information corresponding to the search request and transmits to the control PC to provide the event information to be quickly processed by the control PC and accordingly urgent An object of the present invention is to provide an event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same, which can achieve fast processing for an event.

The present invention also provides an event processing apparatus and an event distribution method using the same, by receiving a processing result of an event and changing corresponding event information so that distribution of the same event does not occur again. The purpose is to provide.

In order to achieve the above object, the event processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the control server for communicating with a plurality of control PC, the event management unit for distributing the event to the control PC according to the event distribution rule; And an event processing result storage unit for receiving and storing a processing result of the event from the control PC.

Here, the event management unit is set to the control PC to receive the event is absent, or the response to the event processing is delayed by exceeding the threshold time from the control PC receiving the event, or the corresponding event from the control PC receiving the event If there is a request for return to the, characterized in that the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC.

In addition, when there is a request for forwarding the event from the control PC that received the event to another control PC, the event management unit moves to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. Distribute the event.

The event distribution rule may be determined through at least one of an event priority, a priority for each control PC, an event distribution setting value for each camera, and an event throughput for each control PC.

In addition, an event distribution rule storage unit for storing the event distribution rule; And an event information storage unit for storing event information on the event.

And, if there is a search request for a specific event from the control PC further comprises an event search unit for searching for the event information corresponding to the search request and transmits to the control PC.

In the event distribution method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the control server receives an event from the security monitoring system (a), and the control server distributes the event to a plurality of control PCs according to the event distribution rules (b) step; And (c) the control server receiving and storing the processing result of the event from the control PC.

In addition, the control server is set to the control PC to receive the event is absent, or the response to the event processing is delayed beyond the threshold time from the control PC receiving the event, or the corresponding event from the control PC receiving the event If there is a request for return to the, characterized in that the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC.

In addition, when there is a request for forwarding the event from the control PC that received the event to another control PC, the control server forwards to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. Distribute the event.

The control server receives the processing result for the event and changes the corresponding event information so that the distribution of the same event does not occur again.

According to the event processing apparatus and the event distribution method using the same of the present invention has the following advantages.

First, the present invention has the advantage that the event is distributed to a plurality of control PCs according to the event distribution rules to increase the efficiency of event distribution and event processing accordingly.

Second, according to the present invention, the response to the event processing is delayed because the control PC to which the event is to be distributed is set to be absent or the event PC to which the event is distributed is exceeded a threshold time, If there is a request to return or a request to forward the event from the control PC that received the event to another control PC, the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. By doing so, there is an advantage of preventing the omission of an urgent event and its loss, and performing an event distribution interactively with the control PC.

Third, the present invention is faster and more effective by allowing an event to be distributed according to an event distribution rule determined through at least one of priority per event, priority per control PC, event distribution setting value per camera, and event throughput per control PC. There is also the advantage of being able to perform event distribution.

Fourth, if there is a search request for a specific event from the control PC, the present invention searches for event information corresponding to the search request and transmits the event information to the control PC to quickly provide the event information that the control PC wants to process and is urgent accordingly. It also has the advantage of achieving fast handling of events.

Fifth, the present invention also has an advantage of increasing the efficiency in event distribution and processing by receiving the processing result for the event and changing the corresponding event information so that distribution for the same event does not occur again.

Advantages and features of the present invention, and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be implemented in various forms, and only the embodiments of the present invention make the disclosure of the present invention complete and the general knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the present invention is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a video surveillance system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the video surveillance system of the present invention includes a security surveillance system 202, a control server 100, and a control PC (Personal Computer) 300. The security surveillance system 202 is meant to include a network video recorder 200, an IP video surveillance system 12, and an analog video surveillance system 14, and these components 12 and 14 200 serve as security surveillance. Therefore, hereinafter referred to collectively as the security monitoring system 202 (see Fig. 2).

Here, the IP video surveillance system 12 may transmit and receive data to and from the control server 100 through the network video recorder 200, and the analog video surveillance system 14 is directly connected to the control server 100 to transmit data. Can send and receive In addition, only one system of the IP video surveillance system 12 and the analog video surveillance system 14 may be used to perform video surveillance through interworking with the network video recorder 200 and the control server 100. to be.

After the event, the video captured by the cameras installed in the IP video surveillance system 12 and the analog video surveillance system 14 and information about the corresponding event are transmitted to the network video recorder 200 and the control server 100. Can be.

Meanwhile, the network video recorder 200 is an integrated video storage device. For example, the network video recorder 200 receives and stores an image captured after an event occurs from a camera connected to a DVR and a network (eg, an IP camera, a web camera, etc.), and a control server. The image retrieved in cooperation with the control 100 and the control PC 300 may be transmitted to the control server 100 or the control PC 300. Here, the network video recorder 200 may be configured as a separate video storage device or included in the control server 100.

The control server 100 is an integrated event management apparatus. The control server 100 receives and stores information (ie, event information) about an event from at least one of the security monitoring systems 202, and stores the network video recorder 200 and a control PC ( It works in conjunction with 300). The event information may include information on an event type, a camera ID of capturing a corresponding image after an event occurs, an event occurrence time, a shooting location, and the like.

And, the control server 100 distributes the event to a plurality of control PC 300 in accordance with the event distribution rules. Then, on the screen of the control PC 300, the event information for the event assigned to him is displayed.

In this case, the event distribution rule may be determined through at least one of an event priority, a priority for each control PC, an event distribution setting value for each camera, and an event throughput for each control PC.

In addition, the control server 100 is set to the absence of the control PC 300 to receive the event, or the response to the event processing is delayed or exceeded the threshold time from the control PC 300 that received the event, There is a request for return of the event from the distributed control PC 300, or the event is distributed from the control PC 300 (for example, control PC # 1) that has received the event to another control PC 300 (for example, the control PC #). If there is a request for forwarding to 2), the event may be distributed to the next control PC 300 according to an event distribution rule or a request of the corresponding control PC 300.

The control PC 300 displays the information on the event that is assigned to the screen, and transmits the processing result for the corresponding event to the control server 100. The control server 100 receiving the processing result for the event may change the corresponding event information so that the distribution for the same event does not occur again, the event processing time, the contact person ID who processed the event, the event processing result, and the like. Can be saved.

In addition, the control PC 300 may forward a specific event among the events allocated by the control PC 300 to another control PC 300 when the user has the authority. In addition, the control PC 300 may make a request for the forwarding to the control server 100, the control server 100 receives the request according to the event distribution rule or the request of the control PC 300 Events can be distributed to control PC 300.

Hereinafter, the function performed by the control server 100 described above with reference to FIG. 2 will be described in more detail.

2 is a block diagram of an event processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the event processing apparatus 101 may include an event collector 110, an information storage 120, an event manager 130, and a searcher 140. The event processing apparatus 101 may be implemented as a predetermined module in the control server 100.

The event collection unit 110 receives an event from at least one of the security monitoring systems 202 and stores information about the corresponding events (ie, event information) in the event information storage unit 122 to be described later. Here, the event information may include information on an event type, a camera ID, an event occurrence time, a shooting location, and the like.

The information storage unit 120 includes an event information storage unit 122, an event distribution rule storage unit 124, and an event processing result storage unit 126.

The event information storage unit 122 stores the event information received by the event collection unit 110 described above.

The event distribution rule storage unit 124 stores information about the event distribution rule. Here, the event distribution rule may be determined by at least one of an event priority, a priority for each control PC, an event distribution setting value for each camera, and an event throughput for each control PC. Event distribution rules will be described in detail in the event manager 130 to be described later.

The event processing result storage unit 126 receives and stores the processing result of the event from the control PC 300. At this time, the event processing result storage unit 126 may include information on the event distribution amount for each control PC 300 and the event processing amount for the distributed events, the event management unit 130 to be described later that information You can use it to refer to the distribution of events.

In addition, in detail, the event processing result storage unit 126 includes the person in charge of processing the event including the above-described event information, the event processing time, the event processing result, the IP address of the controlling PC 300 and the corresponding event processing process. Detailed information such as history information about the event (for example, returning an event, forwarding status, a forwarding target, etc.) may be stored.

The event manager 130 performs event allocation (distribution) and management functions, and includes an event distributor 132 and an event distribution controller 134.

The event distribution unit 132 distributes the event to a plurality of control PC 300 according to the event distribution rule. As described above, the event distribution rule may be determined by at least one of the priority per event, the priority per control PC, the event distribution setting value per camera, and the event throughput per control PC.

For example, when the priority is determined for each event and the event distribution rule is defined such that the event is distributed accordingly, the event distribution unit 132 determines the priority of the event and according to each control PC ( 300) to distribute events. For example, when an event for the motion detection of an external intruder is set as the highest priority and a dedicated person who processes the event is determined, the event may be distributed to the dedicated control PC 300 as the highest priority.

In addition, when an event distribution rule is defined so that event distribution is performed according to the priority of each control PC 300, the event distribution unit 132 may distribute the events according to the priority of each control PC 300. For example, the event distributor 132 may distribute the event to the control PC 300 having the priority # 100 before the control PC 300 having the priority # 101.

In addition, when an event distribution rule is defined so that event distribution is performed according to the event distribution setting value for each camera, the event distribution unit 132 may distribute the event to the control PC 300 for each camera. For example, the event distribution unit 132 is set to control PC # 100 for the camera ID 100 ~ 200, control PC # 200 for the 201 ~ 300, control PC # 300 for the 301 ~ 400 When an event is detected by the camera, the event is distributed to the person in charge.

In addition, when an event distribution rule is defined so that event distribution is performed according to the event throughput for each control PC, the event distribution unit 132 determines the event distribution amount and the event throughput of the control PC 300 that is already distributed, and Events can be distributed.

In addition, the event distribution unit 132 broadcasts a message notification that when the control server 100 directly processes the event, the control PC 300 will process the event directly. (broadcasting) Therefore, the division of work of mutual event processing can be made clear and the effect of rapid event processing can be enhanced.

On the other hand, the event distribution control unit 134 is set to the control PC 300 to receive the event is absent, or the response to the event processing is delayed from the control PC 300 that received the event exceeds the threshold time, or the event There is a request for returning the event from the control PC 300 that received the distribution, or the control PC 300 (eg, control PC # 1) that received the event to send the event to another control PC 300 (eg, the control PC). If there is a request for forwarding to # 2), the event is distributed to the next control PC 300 through the event distribution unit 132 described above according to an event distribution rule or a request of the corresponding control PC 300. can do.

In detail, for example, the control agent of the predetermined control PC 300 may set aside that he is absent, and may leave the room, and also return the received event due to his or her own processing or other reasons. You can request In addition, the control agent may request that the event forwarded to the other control PC 300 for the event received due to the excessive amount of their work.

In addition, when the time delay for event processing is continued due to the vacation or other reasons of the control agent, the event distribution control unit 134 is the event distribution unit 132 described above in response to the event distribution rule or the request of the control PC 300. ) Can be distributed to the next control PC (300).

This prevents unexpected and unhandled events and omissions and loss of urgent events, and enables interactive event distribution with the control PC.

The searcher 140 searches for an event and an image, and includes an event searcher 142 and an image searcher 144.

If there is a search request for a specific event from the control PC 300, the event search unit 142 searches for event information corresponding to the search request and transmits it to the control PC 300.

For example, when a control agent of the control PC 300 requests an event search by date, time, camera, event type, or keyword search, the searcher 140 receives the corresponding event from the event information storage 122. Extract and transmit to the control PC (300).

The image search unit 144 searches for and provides an image at the request of the control PC 300. That is, the image retrieval unit 144 searches for a corresponding image in the network video recorder 200 by using information on a camera ID, an event occurrence time, and the like in the event selected by the control PC 300, and retrieves the retrieved image from the corresponding control PC ( 300). In this case, the image may be received from the network video recorder 200 and provided to the control PC 300, or the network video recorder 200 may be directly provided to the control PC 300. Hereinafter, a method of distributing the above-described event through FIG. 3 will be described later.

3 is a flow chart of an event distribution method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the control server 100 receives an event from the security monitoring system 202 (S301).

Next, the control server 100 distributes the event to a plurality of control PC 300 according to the event distribution rule (S311). For details on the event distribution rule, refer to the description of FIG. 2 described above.

Next, the control server 100 receives and stores the processing result for the event from the control PC (300) (S321). In this case, the control server 100 changes the corresponding event information according to the received event processing result so that the distribution of the same event does not occur again.

As such, by distributing an event according to an event distribution rule and managing an event according to an event processing result, it is possible to increase the efficiency of up-loading of an event and event processing.

4 illustrates an event list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the screen configuration of the control PC 300 includes a first screen 410 representing an entire map of event objects, and a second screen 420 representing an event distributed in real time. And a third screen 430 showing an event (information) received from the control server 100 according to a search request.

For example, when the control agent selects office 2 412 on the first screen 410, information about an event occurring in office 2 412 may be output to the event list 400 on the third screen 430. . Here, the event list 400 may include information about a camera ID 401, an event type 402, a shooting location 403, an event occurrence time 404, a manager ID 405, and the like. In addition, the event list 400 may also include image analysis events (Tripwire, Loitering, Object Detection, etc.).

In addition, the control agent may request an event search by date, time, camera, event type, or keyword search, the control server 100 to extract the event according to the search conditions provided to the control PC (300). In addition, the control PC 300 may output the received event to the screen as the event list 400 described above.

Meanwhile, the events distributed by the event manager 130 according to the event distribution rule may be displayed on the second screen 420 of the corresponding control PC 300.

The second screen 420 of FIG. 4 shows the summarized information of the distributed events, and the control agent of the corresponding control PC 300 has the camera ID # 23 and 25 times among the events distributed by the control agent 422. If is selected, a detailed screen 500 for event processing can be provided as shown in FIG. Hereinafter, it will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

5 illustrates an event processing screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 5, an event processing screen 500 may be provided for the camera ID # 23 and the 25th event 422 selected on the second screen 420 of FIG. 4 described above.

The controller selects an event to be processed from the selection menu 501 and plays an image of the event.

In addition, the control agent may execute the setting screen 510 for the selected event and set the redistribution request and the event processing related content for the corresponding event. For example, when the control agent is away, the control agent may display the absence while notifying the event distribution controller 134 of the fact. In addition, the return for the event can be requested, and forwarding to another control PC 300 can be requested.

Here, when requesting forwarding to another control PC (300), the control agent to enter the ID (pc123) of the control PC 300 to be forwarded directly, or forwarded to the control server 100 to the corresponding ID You can also request forwarding.

On the other hand, in the above-described screen configuration, the control agent may directly select the event to be processed from the real-time event information provided on the second screen 420 of FIG. 4 to perform a process for the corresponding event, In this case, the event selected on the second screen 420 may be moved to the third screen 430 and displayed.

In addition, the controller may execute the setting screen 510 on the selected event as described in FIG. 5 to set the redistribution request for the event and the event processing related content.

As described above, the screen configuration related to the event processing of FIGS. 4 and 5 may be variously applied.

Thereafter, the event processing time, ID of the person in charge of processing the event (control agent), history information on the event processing process, and the like, for the event processed by the control agent, may be delivered to the event processing result storage unit 126 and stored. have.

Therefore, when the event is redistributed by the event distribution unit 132, the processing result for the event is usefully used, so that more efficient event distribution can proceed.

The above-described information storage unit 120 of FIG. 2 may include a cache, a read only memory (ROM), a programmable ROM (PROM), an erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), and a flash memory. A nonvolatile memory device or a volatile memory device such as a random access memory (RAM) or a storage medium such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or a CD-ROM may be implemented as at least one, but is not limited thereto.

In addition, each component illustrated in FIG. 2 may be configured as a kind of 'module'. The term 'module' refers to a hardware component such as software or a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and a module plays a role. However, modules are not meant to be limited to software or hardware. A module may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to execute one or more processors. The functionality provided by the components and modules may be combined into a smaller number of components and modules or further separated into additional components and modules.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. I can understand that. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a video surveillance system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of an event processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart of an event distribution method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an event list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an event processing screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols on main parts of the drawings>

100: control server

101: event processing unit 110: event collector

120: information storage unit 122: event information storage unit

124: event distribution rule storage unit 126: event processing result storage unit

130: event management unit 132: event distribution unit

134: event distribution controller 140: event searcher

200: network video recorder

300: control pc

Claims (10)

In the control server to communicate with a plurality of control PC, An event management unit distributing an event to the control PC according to an event distribution rule; And And an event processing result storage unit for receiving and storing a processing result of the event from the control PC. The method of claim 1, wherein the event management unit The control PC to which the event is to be distributed is set to be absent, the response to event processing is delayed beyond the threshold time from the control PC to which the event is distributed, or there is a request to return the event from the control PC to which the event is distributed. And distributing the event to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or designation of the control PC. The method of claim 1, wherein the event management unit When there is a request for forwarding the event from the control PC that has received the event to another control PC, the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. Event processing device. The method of claim 1, wherein the event distribution rule The event processing apparatus, characterized in that determined through at least one of the priority per event, the priority per control PC, the event distribution setting value per camera, and the event throughput per control PC. The method of claim 1, An event distribution rule storage unit for storing the event distribution rule; And And an event information storage unit for storing event information on the event. The method of claim 5, And an event search unit for retrieving the event information corresponding to the search request and transmitting the event information corresponding to the search request to the control PC when the search request for a specific event is received from the control PC. (A) the control server receiving an event from the security monitoring system; (B) the control server distributing the event to a plurality of control PCs according to an event distribution rule; And And (c) the control server receiving and storing a processing result of the event from the control PC. The method of claim 7, wherein the control server The control PC to which the event is to be distributed is set to be absent, the response to event processing is delayed beyond the threshold time from the control PC to which the event is distributed, or there is a request to return the event from the control PC to which the event is distributed. And distributing the event to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the designation of the control PC. The method of claim 7, wherein the control server If there is a request for forwarding the event from the control PC that has received the event to another control PC, the event is distributed to the next control PC according to the event distribution rule or the control PC. Event distribution method. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the control server And receiving the processing result for the event and changing the corresponding event information so that the distribution for the same event does not occur again.

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