PANORAMIC TRACKING CAMERA

摘要

Vision system device integrating a moving camera (with motors for pan and/or tilt, and/or zoom) and a panoramic camera of any kind (catadioptric or polidiotric). The two cameras thanks to an intelligent image processing (realized on hardware and/or on software) actively cooperate to monitor the complete surrounding environment by exploiting the advantages of both types of cameras. The information extracted from the panoramic images is used with the aim of actively control the moving camera to frame the region, the people, and the objects of interest. The panoramic and the perspective images grabbed by this integrated device can be broadcasted and/or processed to extract information on occurrence of specific actions or on moving objects/people. By fusing the information coming from the images of the two integrated cameras, it is possible to calculate detailed information about the state, the variations and the distance of static and moving objects in the surroundings of the integrated device.