Automated authorization to access surveillance video based on pre-specified events

US9191632B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ronald L. Billau · Rochester, US
• Vincenzo V. Di Luoffo · Sandy Hook, US
• Dan P. Dumarot · Patterson, US
• Matthew James Paschal · Rochester, US
• Brandon W. Schulz · Rochester, US
• James E. Woodbury · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2013
• Grant date: Nov 17, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N7/181
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Real-time access by a requestor to surveillance video is conditionally pre-authorized dependent on the existence of at least one pre-specified automatically detectable condition, and recorded in a data processing system. A requestor subsequently requests real-time access to the surveillance video (e.g., as a result of an alarm), and if the pre-specified automatically detectable condition is met, access is automatically granted, i.e., without the need for manual intervention. An automatically detectable condition could, e.g., be an alarm condition detected by a sensor at the site of the video surveillance. Alternatively, it could be a locational proximity of the requestor to the site of the video surveillance. Alternatively, it could be a previously defined time interval.