TWI566604B - System and apparatus for capturing image, and storage medium - Google Patents

Description

Image capture device, image capture system and storage medium

The present invention relates to an image capture system, and more particularly to an image capture system for security surveillance.

The current security surveillance system is mostly continuous video recording. Therefore, when a user wants to find the time from which these consecutive videos are searched for, it takes a lot of time to find. For example, if a user wants to find out who is littering at the door within eight hours of the day, if they are looking through a traditional surveillance system, they will need to watch the video archive for several hours. If you are lucky, you may be able to find it within 1-2 hours or even within a few dozen minutes. However, if you are not lucky, you may have to watch the video file for nearly eight hours before you can find what you want. Information. The above example is only looking for the required information from several hours of video data. However, if the user needs to search for three months of video information because of a three-month business trip, it is more time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Therefore, how to enable users to quickly find the information they need from a large amount of video data has become a very important topic in today's surveillance technology.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an image capturing device and an image capturing system capable of providing an event summary report in a predetermined time interval.

In order to achieve the above object, an image capturing device according to the present invention includes an image capturing module for capturing an environmental image data of an environment, and an event recording module electrically connected to the image capturing module. Obtaining the environmental image data, and recording at least one event in the environment, recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data; and an event editing module connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting At least one event of all events in a preset time interval is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event.

In an embodiment, the event editing module may filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval.

In one embodiment, the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in a preset time interval, and the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the time sequence of the event image data.

In another embodiment, the image capture device further includes a label generation module that generates corresponding event tags according to the content of each event image data, and adds the event tags to the event image materials. Therefore, the event editing module can edit the event summary report based on these event tags.

In one embodiment, the event image data is a still image or a dynamic video segment.

From another point of view, the present invention provides an image capture system including a remote server and an image capture device, and the remote server is connected to the image capture device. The image capturing device includes an image capturing module for capturing an environmental image data of an environment; an event recording module electrically connecting the image capturing module to obtain environmental image data and occurring in the environment Recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data in at least one event; and an event editing module connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting at least one event of all events in a preset time interval Editing the event summary report and causing the event summary report to display the event image data corresponding to the selected event, wherein the image capturing device uploads the event summary report to the remote server.

In an embodiment, the event editing module may filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval.

In one embodiment, the event editing module records a plurality of event image data in a preset time interval, and the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the time sequence of the event image data.

In an embodiment, the image capturing device further includes a label generating module, which generates corresponding event tags according to the content of the event image data, and adds the event tags to the event image materials. Therefore, the event editing module edits the event summary report based on these event tags.

In one embodiment, the remote server is connected to a remote device, wherein the remote server includes a remote communication module that transmits an event summary report to the remote device in response to the remote device a review request.

In an embodiment, the remote server includes a push module to actively push the event summary report to the remote device.

From another point of view, the present invention further provides an image capture system including an image capture device and a host device. The image capturing device captures an environmental image data of an environment. The host device connects the image capturing device to obtain the environmental image data. The host device includes an event recording module for recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when an event occurs in the environment; and an event editing module, connecting the event recording module, and selecting a preset time interval At least one event of all events is edited into an event summary report, such that the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event.

In an embodiment, the event editing module can filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval.

In one embodiment, the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in a preset time interval, and the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the time sequence of the event image data.

In an embodiment, the host device further includes a label generating module, which generates corresponding event tags according to the content of each event image data, and adds the event tags to the event image materials. Therefore, the event editing module edits the event summary report based on these event tags.

From another point of view, the present invention further provides an image capture system including an image capture device and a remote server. The image capturing device captures an environmental image data of an environment. In addition, the remote server is connected to the image capturing device to obtain the environmental image data, and the remote server includes an event recording module, and records an event according to the instant environmental image data when an event occurs in the environment. Image data; and an event editing module, linked to an event recording module. The event editing module selects at least one event of all events in a preset time interval to edit into an event summary report, and causes the event summary report to display the event image data corresponding to the selected event.

In an embodiment, the event editing module may filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval.

In one embodiment, the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in a preset time interval, and the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the time sequence of the event image data.

In an embodiment, the remote server further includes a label generating module, which generates corresponding event labels according to the content of each event image data, and adds the event labels to the event image data respectively. Therefore, the event editing module can edit the event summary report based on these event tags.

In one embodiment, the remote server is connected to a remote device, wherein the remote server further includes a remote communication module for transmitting the event summary report to the remote device in response to the remote device A review request issued.

In an embodiment, the remote server includes a push module to actively push the event summary report to the remote device.

From another point of view, the present invention provides a storage medium storing an application, and the application is adapted to be mounted to an electronic device having an image capture module. The application performs at least the following steps: causing the image capture module to capture an environmental image data of an environment; and recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when an event occurs in the environment; and selecting a preset At least one event of all events in the time interval is edited into an event summary report.

In summary, the image capturing device and the image capturing system of the present invention record the event image data of each event occurring in a predetermined time interval by an environment, and select the event recording module to record according to a certain rule. Each event is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report is transmitted to a remote device through the remote server for review by the user, which reduces the need for the user to review the image for a long time. By taking the original data recorded by the system (security monitoring system), the user can more easily review the occurrence of each event.

An image capturing device, an image capturing system, and a storage medium according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein the same elements will be described with the same reference numerals.

1 is a circuit block diagram of an image capture device in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1 , the image capturing device 11 provided in this embodiment includes an image capturing module 111 , an event recording module 112 , and an event editing module 113 . The image capturing module 111 captures an environmental image data ED of an environment and transmits it to the event recording module 112. The event recording module 112 records an event image data EVD according to the instant environmental image data when an event occurs. In addition, the event editing module 113 is coupled to the event recording module 112 to select one of all events occurring within a predetermined time interval to be edited into an event summary report. In particular, in the event summary report, the event image data EVD corresponding to the selected event is displayed, as shown in FIG.

2 is a schematic diagram of each event recorded by the image capturing device of FIG. 1 in a predetermined time interval (for example, 24 hours a day); FIG. 3 is an event summary report according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Schematic diagram. Please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 together. In FIG. 2, an event record occurs in a preset time interval, wherein a vertical line represents an event EV occurring at a corresponding time point. In this embodiment, the shorter vertical line represents an event with a lower event intensity, for example, a small amplitude change of light is an event with a lower event intensity: relatively, a longer line segment represents an event with a higher event intensity, for example It is an event in which people enter and exit.

In this embodiment, the above may be defined by the user, for example, at least one person or object appears or moves in the environment (EV1 and EV2); or the environment changes drastically (EV3), such as the environment becomes brighter or darker; Or when the image capturing device 11 is shaken and broken (EV4). In the above, when an event occurs, for example, at the door of the store, a customer enters the door, and the event recording module 112 records the event image data EVD according to the instant environmental image data ED captured by the image capturing module 111. The environmental image data ED of the customer entering the door is recorded as a static image or a video clip of the video clip EVD, such as the event image data corresponding to the EV1 in FIG.

Additionally, in some embodiments, the event editing module 113 can edit all occurrences of events within the preset time interval into the event summary report. In other embodiments, the event editing module 113 may select events of higher strength, such as EV1, EV2, EV3, EV4, etc., to edit into the event summary report, and to screen out other less intense events. The event image data EVD corresponding to each event selected for editing into the event summary report is displayed in the event summary report. In addition, the user may also merge the less intense events into at least one event image data EVD to reduce the event summary report.

In addition, the event editing module 113 may also arrange the corresponding event image data according to the selected events, for example, the events EV1, EV2, EV3, and EV4, and edit them into the event summary report. In other embodiments, the image capturing device 11 may further include a label generating module (not shown), which may respectively generate corresponding event tags according to the content of each event image data EVD, and add them to each event. Image data in EVD. In these embodiments, the event tags can be narrative sentences that describe the content of each event. In this way, the event editing module 113 can also arrange the corresponding event image data EVD according to the event tag corresponding to each event.

In this embodiment, the event recording module 112, the event editing module 113, and the label generating module may all be disposed in a processor. In addition, the event recording module 112, the event editing module 113, and the label generating module may be implemented in the form of hardware, software, or firmware, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

In addition, although the form of the event summary report is illustrated in FIG. 3, it is not intended to limit the present invention. It is known to those of ordinary skill in the art that displaying event summary reports in different forms does not affect the primary spirit of the present invention.

In addition, after the event summary report is completed, the image capturing device 11 can store it in a local storage device or a remote storage device, or upload it to a remote server. 4 is a block diagram of an image capture system in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the image capturing system 1 provided in this embodiment includes a remote server, such as a remote server 12, which can be combined with the image capturing device 11 in addition to the image capturing device 11 of FIG. Connected.

When the event editing module 113 edits the event summary report, it can upload it to the remote server 12. In this embodiment, the remote server 12 includes a push module 122 that can actively push the event summary report to the remote device 13. The remote device 13 can be a personal computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a wearable device. In this way, the user can view the event summary report of FIG. 3 by the remote device 13, for example.

In other embodiments, the remote server 12 can also include a remote communication module 121. When the user sends a review command to the remote server 12 through the remote device 13, the remote communication module 121 can send an event summary report to the remote device 13 in response to the review command. In other embodiments, the remote server 12 can integrate the functions of the push module 122 into the remote communication module 121, which is not limited in the present invention. The same principles apply to the embodiments of the following paragraphs, and will not be described further below.

In addition, although in the above embodiments, the remote server 12 is a remote server, those skilled in the art may be replaced by a server located in a local area network, which is not limited by the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an image capture system in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, the image capturing system 2 includes an image capturing device 21, a host device 22, and a remote server, such as a remote server 23. The image capturing device 21 is connected to the host device 22, and the host device 22 is connected to the remote server 23. In this embodiment, the image capturing device 21 can be a camera, a camera, a webcam, a smart IP camera, etc., which can capture an environmental image data ED of an environment.

Continuing to refer to FIG. 5, the host device 22 includes an event recording module 221 and an event editing module 222, which have the same functions as the above-described event recording module 112 and an event editing module 113, and therefore will not be described again. It can be seen that the host device 22 can record the event image data EVD and edit the event summary report, and then upload the event summary report to the remote server 23.

In addition, the remote server 23 includes a remote communication module 231 or/and a push module 232, and can also be connected to a remote device 24. In this way, the remote server 23 can transmit the event summary report to the remote device 24. Similarly, the remote device 24 can be a personal computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a wearable device.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an image capturing system according to a third embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6, the image capturing system 3 includes an image capturing device 31 and a remote server, such as a remote server 32. The image capturing device 31 can be connected to the remote server 32, and the remote server 32 can be connected to a remote device 33, such as a personal computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer or a wearable device. Device, etc.

Similarly, the image capturing device 31 can be a camera, a camera, a webcam, a smart IP camera, etc., which can capture an environmental image data ED of an environment, and can The environmental image data ED is uploaded to the remote server 32. In this embodiment, when the image capturing device 31 uploads the image data ED to the remote server 32, it can be uploaded in the form of a video stream.

In addition, the remote server 32 includes an event recording module 321 and an event editing module 322, which have the same functions as the event recording module 112 and the event editing module 113, and are not described here. Therefore, when the remote server 32 receives the image data ED uploaded from the image capturing device, it can be edited into an event summary report in the manner described above. As with the above, the remote server 32 also includes a remote communication module 323 and/or a push module 324. In this way, the remote server 32 can transmit the edited event summary report to the remote device 33.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an image capturing device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 7, the image capturing device of the embodiment is implemented by an electronic device 5, which may be a personal computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a wearable device. In the embodiment, the electronic device 5 includes an image capturing module 51, a processing unit 52, and a storage medium 53. The processing unit 52 is electrically connected to the image capturing module 51 and the storage medium 53.

In particular, the storage medium 53 stores an application that can execute the flowchart illustrated in FIG. Referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 together, the application can use the image capturing module 51 to capture environmental image data of an environment, as described in step S81. The application then determines if an event has occurred. When an event occurs, the application records an event image data based on the instant environmental image data, as described in step S82. In addition, the application further performs step S83 to select at least one event of all events in a preset time interval to be edited into an event summary report according to the manner described in the foregoing embodiment.

In summary, the image capturing device and the image capturing system of the present invention record the event image data of each event occurring in a predetermined time interval by an environment, and select the event recording module to record according to a certain rule. Each event is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report is transmitted to a remote device through the remote server for review by the user, which reduces the need for the user to review the image for a long time. By taking the original data recorded by the system (security monitoring system), the user can more easily review the occurrence of each event.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

1, 2, 3‧ ‧ image capture system
5‧‧‧Electronic devices
11, 21, 31‧‧‧ image capture device
111, 51‧‧‧Image capture module
112, 221, 321‧‧‧ Event Recording Module
113, 222, 322‧‧‧ event editing module
121, 231, 323‧‧‧ Remote communication module
122, 232, 324‧‧‧ push module
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EVD‧‧‧ incident image data
EV, EV1, EV2, EV3, EV4‧‧ events
S81, S82, S83‧‧‧ Steps for capturing images

1 is a circuit block diagram of an image capture device in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of each event recorded by the image capturing device of FIG. 1 in a preset time interval. 3 is a schematic diagram of an event summary report in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a block diagram of an image capture system in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an image capture system in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a schematic diagram of an image capture system in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an image capture device in accordance with a fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the steps of an image capturing method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

11‧‧‧Image capture device

111‧‧‧Image capture module

112‧‧‧Event Recording Module

113‧‧‧ Event Editing Module

ED‧‧‧ Environmental image data

EVD‧‧‧ incident image data

Claims (21)

An image capturing device includes: an image capturing module that captures an environmental image data of an environment; an event recording module electrically connected to the image capturing module to obtain the environmental image data, and Recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when at least one event occurs in the environment; and an event editing module connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting all events in a preset time interval At least one event is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the event recording module records the plurality of event image data. The event editing module edits the event summary report according to the chronological order of the event image data. An image capturing device includes: an image capturing module that captures an environmental image data of an environment; an event recording module electrically connected to the image capturing module to obtain the environmental image data, and Recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when at least one event occurs in the environment; and an event editing module connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting all events in a preset time interval At least one event is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the event recording module records The image capturing device further includes: a label generating module, corresponding event tags are generated according to the content of the event image data, and the event tags are respectively added to the event image data, wherein the event editing module is based on the events Edit the event summary report by tag. The image capturing device of claim 1 or 2, wherein the event editing module can filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval. The image capturing device of claim 1 or 2, wherein the event image data is a still image or a dynamic video segment. An image capturing system includes: a remote server connected to the remote device; and an image capturing device connected to a remote server, and including: an image capturing module, capturing An environmental image data of an environment; an event recording module electrically connected to the image capturing module to obtain the environmental image data, and recording at least one event in the environment according to the instant environmental image data Event image data; and an event editing module, coupled to the event recording module, the event editing module selects at least one event of all events in a preset time interval to be edited into an event summary report, and causes the event summary report to display The event image data corresponding to the selected event, wherein the image capturing device uploads the event summary report to the remote server. For example, the image capturing system of claim 5, wherein the event editing module can filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval. The image capture system of claim 5, wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the event editing module is based on the time sequence of the event image data. And edit the event summary report. The image capture system of claim 5, wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the image capture device further includes a label generation module. Corresponding event tags are generated for each event image data content, and the event tags are respectively added to the event image data, so that the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the event tags. The image capturing system of claim 5, wherein the remote server comprises a remote communication module, and the event summary report is transmitted to the remote device to respond to a remote device Review requirements. The image capturing system of claim 5, wherein the remote server comprises a push module, and the event summary report is actively pushed to the remote device. An image capture system comprising: An image capturing device that captures an environmental image data of an environment; and a host device that connects the image capturing device to obtain the environmental image data, the host device comprising: an event recording module, in the environment Recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when at least one event occurs; and an event editing module connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting at least one of all events in a preset time interval The event is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the event recording module records multiple event image data in the preset time interval, and the event editing The module edits the event summary report according to the chronological order of the event image data. An image capture system includes: an image capture device that captures an environmental image data of an environment; and a host device that connects the image capture device to obtain the environmental image data, the host device includes: The event recording module records an event image data according to the instant environmental image data when at least one event occurs in the environment; and an event editing module that is connected to the event recording module, and the event editing module selects a preset At least one event of all events in the time interval is edited into an event summary report, and the event summary report displays the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the event recording module records multiple times in the preset time interval. The event image data, and the host device further includes a label generating module, which generates corresponding event tags according to the content of the event image data, and the event tags respectively add the event image data to enable the event editing module Edit the event summary report based on the event tags. For example, the image capturing system of claim 11 or 12, wherein the event editing module can filter, save or select all events in the preset time interval. An image capture system includes: an image capture device that captures an environmental image data of an environment; A remote server is connected to the image capturing device to obtain the environmental image data. The remote server includes: an event recording module, according to the instant environmental image data when at least one event occurs in the environment. Recording an event image data; and an event editing module, connecting the event recording module, the event editing module selecting at least one event of all events in a preset time interval to edit into an event summary report, and causing the event summary report The event image data corresponding to the selected event is displayed. For example, in the image capturing system of claim 14, wherein the event editing module can filter, save, or select all events in the preset time interval. The image capture system of claim 14, wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the event editing module is based on the time sequence of the event image data. And edit the event summary report. The image capture system of claim 14, wherein the event recording module records a plurality of event image data in the preset time interval, and the remote server further includes a label generation module. Corresponding event tags are generated for each event image data content, and the event tags are respectively added to the event image data, so that the event editing module edits the event summary report according to the event tags. The image capturing system of claim 14, wherein the remote server is connected to a remote device, and the remote server includes a remote communication module, and the event summary report is transmitted to The remote device is responsive to a review request issued by the remote device. The image capture system of claim 14, wherein the remote server is connected to a remote device, and the remote server includes a push module, and the event summary report is actively pushed. To the remote device. A storage medium storing an application, the application is adapted to be mounted to an electronic device, and the electronic device has an image capture module, the application executing at least the following steps: causing the image capture module to capture a An environmental image of the environment; when at least one event occurs in the environment, an event image is recorded based on the instantaneous environmental image data. And selecting at least one event of all events in a preset time interval to edit an event summary report, and causing the event summary report to display the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the recording is performed within the preset time interval The event summary data is edited according to the chronological order of the event image data. A storage medium storing an application, the application is adapted to be mounted to an electronic device, and the electronic device has an image capture module, the application executing at least the following steps: causing the image capture module to capture a An environmental image data of an environment; when at least one event occurs in the environment, recording an event image data according to the instant environmental image data; and selecting at least one event of all events in a predetermined time interval to edit into an event summary report, and And causing the event summary report to display the event image data corresponding to the selected event; wherein the event image data is recorded in the preset time interval, and corresponding event tags are generated according to the content of each event image data, respectively The event tags are added to the event image data, and the event summary report is edited according to the event tags.