Method and system for remote wireless video surveillance

a wireless video and wireless video technology, applied in the field of remote wireless video surveillance, can solve the problems of imposing computational overhead on the system, requiring large amounts of data transfer, and requiring large amounts of data to be transferred, so as to achieve the effect of convenient concealmen

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-23
WEINSTEIN BRADLEY A
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[0008]It is the purpose of the present invention to provide a method and means for capturing full-color, full-motion audio / video signals, digitizing and compressing the signals into a digitized data file in Internet protocol (IP) format, and transmitting the signals over microwave frequencies using a small, easily concealable, remotely controlled remote unit.

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Surveillance applications, such as those incorporating full motion video, require transfer of large amounts of data.
However, there are limits on the extent to which data may be compressed.
In the past, compression imposed computational overhead upon the system and sometimes took too much time to complete.
Compressed data must be decompressed at the destination at the other end of the transmission system in order to be useable, which imposes additional computational overhead upon the system.
Although compression and decompression may be performed in software, the speeds at which such operations can be performed limit the usefulness of such techniques in some applications such as realtime full motion 30 frame per second video.
If dedicated hardware is utilized, the additional hardware required to perform compression and decompression has limited the use in some applications where small size and miniaturization are required, and in other instances the cost of such additional hardware may be impractical.
Equipment associated with these methods is extremely expensive and has significant limitations.
Although the costs associated with satellite transmission are justifiable for large events such as sporting events where transmission could be made from a single location over a sustained period of time, the enormous amount of equipment and the sophisticated technology required makes satellite transmission extremely expensive and impractical for most surveillance applications.
Microwave transmission technology overcomes some of the limitations of satellite technology but has several additional limitations of its own.
Difficulties have been encountered using this technology in aligning the antenna on the vehicle with the base antenna.
Setup limitations also inhibit the use of microwave transmission systems in obtaining short segments of video at one location, transmission of that signal, moving to another location, transmission, movement, etc.
Transmission is also limited to accessibility of the vehicle to the location of the subject matter.
Although advancements in cellular technology have allowed, cellular telephones to transmit voice messages and data such as facsimile and computer file transmissions from one location to another, this technology has never been used to transmit a high quality video signal.
Prior-art IR systems lack the bandwidth, optics or protocol to implement transmission of full motion 30 frame per second video.
Prior art RF systems are either limited by spectrum availability to a data rate less than 10 Mbit / s, or designed for stationary mounting and ac-powered operation.

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[0016]As described more fully below, the invention takes advantage of the capability of microwave transmission to enable remote acquisition of full motion 30 frame per second (FPS) video.

[0017]As shown in FIG. 1, the system of the present invention comprises a remote unit 10 for capture and wireless transmission of video data, a base unit 12 located up to several miles away to receive the video data, and a plurality of monitoring stations 14 in connected by one or more computer networks 16 to base unit 12 for global viewing and / or downloading of the video data.

Remote Transmission Unit

[0018]As shown in FIG. 2, the remote unit 10 comprises at least one analog video camera 18, a video board 20 for receiving and processing the analog data from the cameras 18, a microwave transceiver unit 22 for transmitting the data to the base unit 12, an antenna 24 for the microwave transceiver 22, a hard disc drive unit 26, and a battery power supply 28 for operating the cameras, video board, microwa...

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Abstract

Disclosed are a system and method for providing wireless video surveillance of a remote location using microwave transmission of video data using TCP / IP networking protocol. The system comprises a remote unit having one or more analog cameras, a video encoder / decoder linked to a microwave transceiver using Ethernet transceivers connected by a twisted wire pair. The microwave transmission is received by a base unit comprising another microwave transceiver and Ethernet transceiver linked to a computer. The base unit computer is connected to one or more computer networks to enable transmission of the video data to multiple computer terminals on the network.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]Surveillance applications, such as those incorporating full motion video, require transfer of large amounts of data. Efforts to reduce the performance requirements upon the data transmission system when large amounts of data must be transferred over the system have resulted in various data compression schemes. For example, video or graphical data may be compressed to occupy less space. Compressed data may then be transmitted and, because the data has been compressed into fewer information bits, fewer bits need to be transmitted, thereby relieving to some extent the loading upon the data transmission system. However, there are limits on the extent to which data may be compressed. In the past, compression imposed computational overhead upon the system and sometimes took too much time to complete. Compressed data must be decompressed at the destination at the other end of the transmission system in order to be useable, which imposes additional computati...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N7/173G08B13/196G08B15/00H04N7/18
CPCG08B13/19656H04N7/185G08B13/19689G08B13/19667
Inventor WEINSTEIN, RICHARD D.
Owner WEINSTEIN BRADLEY A
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