VIDEO SEARCH AND PLAYBACK INTERFACE FOR VEHICLE MONITOR

摘要

A method and apparatus including a plurality of video recordings in a database containing images of vehicles traveling within a predetermined geographic area and a list of license plates attached to each of those vehicles, a display the depicts a map of the geographic area, an input that receives an identifier of a license plate of a vehicle and a time period and a processor that searches the plurality of video recordings for the license plate, returns a list of cameras capturing images of the identified license plate, sorts the returned list by time of capture and displays a motion path of the vehicle on the map for the time period based upon the returned list. The method and apparatus may also include a uniform interface where the end-user can click the camera mark on the vehicle motion path to playback historic video recorded by this camera individually or click the whole motion path to playback a merged video which combines all recorded video from returned cameras into one display using only one window for the display of the merged video.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a database, the database containing map and road information in a monitored area, location information for a plurality of cameras, video clips of the monitored area recorded by each of the plurality of cameras and a list of automobile license plate numbers including a location and time of capture of each license plate detected within the plurality of video clips; an input of a computer system receiving a specified license plate number of an automobile and an identifier of a time period; a processor of the computer system searching the database for all cameras that captured the specified license plate number in the specified time period and returning a list of cameras; a processor of the computer system sorting the returned cameras by time of detection of the specified license plate and drawing a motion path associated with the specified license plate directly on the map based upon the respective returned cameras location information; a processor of the computer system showing a mark of each returned camera on the map; and one of a user input of the computer system detecting a user clicking on a mark identifying a returned camera shown on the map and, in response, a processor of the computer system playing recorded video file of the identified returned camera showing the automobile during the specified time period and a user input of the computer system detecting a user clicking directly on the motion path and, in response, a processor of the computer system merging and playing recorded video of the automobile recorded by the returned cameras during the specified time period.