Eric Steven Taylor

US Patent:

RE37508, Jan 15, 2002

Filed:

Aug 5, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/368887

Inventors:

Eric Taylor - Irvine CA
Marius van der Watt - Orange CA

Assignee:

Interlogix, Inc. - Austin TX

International Classification:

H04N 726

US Classification:

3483851, 3483871

Abstract:

The invention provides a method and apparatus for processing video data signals to generate a time division multiplexed video signal which incorporates a maxima number of fields from successive selected video input signals. The invention provides dual video decoder channels associated synchronisation circuits for generating an early synchronisation signal. The early synchronisation signals are applied to control inputs of the video decoders to enable reading of their output earlier than would normally be possible, avoiding delays in the combining of successive fields of video information in the video TDM signal. The provision of dual channels avoids delays due to lack of synchronisation between the different video sources.

US Patent:

7340151, Mar 4, 2008

Filed:

Mar 14, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/389671

Inventors:

Eric L. Taylor - Irvine CA, US
Robert Alan Seago - Irvine CA, US

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

H04N 5/91

US Classification:

386 69, 386 70

Abstract:

A system and methods are described for high speed searching of digital video data to find regions that have motion, for example in a scene monitored by a security camera system. Conventional video motion detection is used to find zones and/or times in the video data where motion is detected, either in real time or post-processing. Relatively small data structures are created that store metadata or “motion data,” as distinguished from the underlying video data, in which regions of detected motion are indicated compactly, for example using one bit per zone or one bit per field, to enable fast searching to find motion by searching the motion data structure rather than the digital video record.

US Patent:

56547587, Aug 5, 1997

Filed:

May 12, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/439974

Inventors:

Eric Taylor - Costa Mesa CA
Marius Van Der Watt - Costa Mesa CA

International Classification:

H04N 726

US Classification:

348385

Abstract:

The invention provides a method and apparatus for processing video data signals to generate a time division multiplexed video signal which incorporates a maxima number of fields from successive selected video input signals. The invention provides dual video decoder channels associated synchronisation circuits for generating an early synchronisation signal. The early synchronisation signals are applied to control inputs of the video decoders to enable reading of their output earlier than would normally be possible, avoiding delays in the combining of successive fields of video information in the video TDM signal. The provision of dual channels avoids delays due to lack of synchronisation between the different video sources.