MONITORING CAMERA

摘要

A monitoring camera is equipped with a touch sensor in a camera cover glass, which senses positions of objects touching or being close to the cover glass. The touch sensor aids the camera in separating image data depicting objects on the cover glass from image data depicting the monitored scene. This information may be used when choosing image capture settings, by indicating to the camera which image regions are less important to take into account, and to avoid false alarms which otherwise may occur when rain drops or insects on the cover glass are mistaken for events in the scene.

主权项

1. A camera arranged to monitor a scene, comprising:
a transparent cover glass, an image capturing unit, arranged to capture a stream of images of the scene, through the cover glass, and an image processing unit, arranged to receive the stream of images from the image capturing unit, wherein the cover glass comprises a touch sensor arranged to sense positions of objects in the camera view touching the cover glass, and wherein the camera is arranged to control at least one of the image capturing unit or the image processing unit based on data from the touch sensor.