System and method for robust remote video recording with potentially compromised communication connection

    公开(公告)号:US11516426B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-29

    申请号:US17534484

    申请日:2021-11-24

    申请人: Axis AB

    IPC分类号: H04N5/77 H04N7/18 H04N5/232

    摘要: A system, apparatus, computer program product, and method perform controlled video recording of video captured by a camera. The method includes checking by recorder circuitry of receipt of a ping signal sent from a server to the recorder, the ping signal being expected to be received by the recorder circuitry within a predetermined time interval after an earlier ping signal was received (or when an initial ping signal was expected to be received), in response to a determination by the recorder circuitry of not receiving the ping signal, entering an autonomous recording mode, the autonomous recording mode including recording video provided from at least one camera, and continuing operation of the autonomous recording mode until at least one of receiving another ping signal by the recorder circuitry, or receiving a control signal from the server that directs the recorder to stop recording the video provided from the at least one camera.

    AN IMAGE PROCESSOR AND A METHOD THEREIN FOR PROVIDING A TARGET IMAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20220375025A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-24

    申请号:US17713285

    申请日:2022-04-05

    申请人: Axis AB

    发明人: Håkan ARDÖ

    摘要: An image processor and a method therein to provide a target image for evaluation with an object detector. The method comprises: obtaining a source image captured by a camera and depicting an object, and applying an inverse pixel transform to each target pixel of a target image to determine one or more source pixels located at a position in the source image corresponding to a position of each target pixel in the target image. The method further comprises assigning, to each target pixel, a target pixel value determined based on one or more source pixel values of the determined one or more source pixels located at the corresponding position, thereby is a size c in the target image of the depicted object of a specific object type normalized in at least one size dimension. Thereafter, the target image is fed to an object detector for evaluation.

    Image processing device, a camera and a method for encoding a sequence of video images

    公开(公告)号:US11477459B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US17488349

    申请日:2021-09-29

    申请人: Axis AB

    摘要: An image processing device, a camera and a method of encoding a sequence of video images into a single video stream with dynamic bitrate are provided. The sequence of video images is encoded into frames of a base layer of the single video stream using a base layer resolution and a base layer compression level. Video images of the sequence of video images corresponding to respective times before detecting an event trigger are encoded into a first set of frames of an extended layer of the single video stream. The event trigger is detected and upon detecting the event trigger, video images of the sequence of video images corresponding to respective times after detecting the event trigger are encoded into a second set of frames of the extended layer using a higher resolution than the base layer resolution or a lower compression level than the base layer compression level.

    Monitoring camera having a heater
    15.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11454806B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US17107085

    申请日:2020-11-30

    申请人: Axis AB

    发明人: Hiroyuki Ide

    IPC分类号: G03B17/55 G02B27/00

    摘要: A camera having a heating arrangement comprising a heater arranged to supply heat to a window. A thermally conductive member is arranged in contact with a housing and with the heating arrangement, when a temperature at the conductive member is below a threshold, to transfer heat supplied by the heater to the housing. A thermally insulating member is arranged in proximity with the housing and the heating arrangement. The conductive and/or insulating member is configured to, when the temperature increases above the threshold during heater operation, change its extension to enable contact between the insulating member and the housing and between the insulating member and the heating arrangement, and to disable contact between the conductive member and the housing and between the conductive member and the heating arrangement, thereby thermally insulate the housing from the heater.

    METHOD AND IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EVALUATING AN ALIGNMENT OF STITCHED IMAGES

    公开(公告)号:US20220245760A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-04

    申请号:US17558594

    申请日:2021-12-22

    申请人: Axis AB

    发明人: Björn ARDÖ

    IPC分类号: G06T3/40 G06T7/80

    摘要: A method includes aligning a first image frame of a first stream of images from a first image sensor and a further first image frame of a second stream of images from a second image sensor according to a first alignment, aligning a second image frame of the first stream of images and a further second image frame of the second stream of images according to the first alignment, obtaining a first stitched image frame by blending the aligned first image frame and further first image frame in a first blending area according to a first blending function, obtaining second stitched image frame by blending the aligned second image frame and the further second image frame in a second blending area according to a second blending function, and evaluating the first alignment from a difference pattern calculated from pixel values of the first stitched frame and the second stitched frame.

    Video management system and method for dynamic displaying of video streams

    公开(公告)号:US11375159B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17069185

    申请日:2020-10-13

    申请人: Axis AB

    发明人: Anders Krüger

    摘要: A video management system for displaying video streams from a plurality of monitoring devices arranged in a network in a video display arrangement. Each monitoring device constitutes a node in the network and has a logical connection to at least one other node. The video management system is configured to: in response to a first input, zoom out from a first subset of views from a first monitoring device or a first group of monitoring devices to a second subset of views, by adding views from a predetermined number of monitoring devices having a direct logical connection to the first monitoring device or the group of monitoring devices, to the video display arrangement, thereby increasing a neighbor monitoring level by one; and in response to a second input, zoom in from the second subset of views thereby decreasing the neighbor monitoring level by one.

    Streaming of a live video stream
    18.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11368649B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US17155234

    申请日:2021-01-22

    申请人: Axis AB

    摘要: A method for streaming a live video stream in a system comprising a video camera generating the live video stream, a video recorder, and a video. The method comprises: at the video server, receiving, from a client device, a request for the live video stream from the video camera; transmitting from the video server, a push trigger to the video camera, the push trigger instructing the video camera to push the live video stream to the video recorder; upon receiving the push trigger, initiating a push of the live video stream from the video camera to the video recorder; pushing the live video stream from the video camera to the video recorder; pulling, by the video server, the live video stream from the video recorder; and transmitting, by the video server, the live video stream to the client device.

    DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR MOUNTING TO A SURFACE

    公开(公告)号:US20220187690A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17522575

    申请日:2021-11-09

    申请人: Axis AB

    IPC分类号: G03B17/56 F16M13/02

    摘要: A device configured for mounting to a surface, comprises a base part and an attachment part, the attachment part being attachable to the base part, wherein the base part is provided with a keyhole-shaped opening for receiving a fastener comprising a head and a shaft for attaching the base part to the surface, the keyhole-shaped opening comprises a first segment permitting passage of the head and shaft and a second segment permitting passage of the shaft but preventing passage of the head.

    DEVICE AND A METHOD OF ENCODING IMAGES INCLUDING A PRIVACY FILTER

    公开(公告)号:US20220182591A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17528669

    申请日:2021-11-17

    申请人: Axis AB

    摘要: An image processing device a camera and a method for of encoding images captured by a camera are disclosed. For each image of an image sequence captured by the camera, the image is pre-processed by filtering the image by applying a privacy filter, the privacy filter being configured to distort the image in such a way that privacy is achieved in the filtered image, and, for at least a subset of the filtered images, by colour revising the filtered image by changing colour of pixels of a plurality of scattered areas of the filtered image such that a respective colour of one or more pixels of each area of the plurality of scattered areas represents one or more original colours of one or more pixels before filtering at a location of that area in the filtered image. The pre-processed images are then encoded into an encoded video stream.