Systems and methods for electronic signature tracking and analysis
View Patent ↗Surveillance systems and methods for collecting electronic signatures and visual identifiers of targets to help create identifications or records of targets associated with one or more particular electronic signatures. The surveillance systems and methods can include an event analysis system and methodologies to facilitate classification and association of the collected visual identifiers of the targets with the collected electronic signatures of such targets, and can generate alarms or “hits” indicating presence of a known target across subsets of locations and times of occurrence of such hits or alarms for enhancing tracking and movement of targets throughout selected geographic areas or locations.
1. A surveillance system configured to provide statistical event analysis of alarms and events, the system comprising:
a plurality of collection assemblies configured to capture information related to visual identifiers, electronic signatures, or a combination thereof, that are associated with one or more targets in one or more selected areas;
a user interface configured to enable a user to select a time period for analysis or detection of a presence of one or more selected events, and one or more parameters relating to the one or more selected events, including a violation type, one or more known targets, a vehicle or group of vehicles, one or more alarm classes, one or more selected areas, or a combination thereof, during the selected time period; and
an intelligence system comprising:
an intelligence database configured to store the captured visual identifiers, the electronic signature, and collected event data including received alarms indicative of different violation types; and
a classification and search engine configured to:
sort the collected event data into the one or more alarm classes,
using the captured information, determine a certainty of an association between one or more of the electronic signatures with one of the visual identifiers based on a frequency or consistency of the electronic signatures and the visual identifiers, and identify and associate one or more of the visual identifiers, electronic signatures, or combinations thereof, with one or more targets, and
in response to a user selection of the time period and the one or more parameters relating to the one or more selected events, develop an event analysis indicating a distribution of the one or more selected events during the selected time period, and develop a forecast of a frequency of occurrence of the one or more selected events, during the selected time period; and
using the event analysis, correlate captures of visual identifiers, electronic signatures of at least one target of the one or more targets with the one or more selected events.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is further configured to enable the user to input a date range for the occurrence of the one or more selected events; and display the distribution of the one or more selected events during the selected time period and the input date range; and wherein, the classification and search engine is further configured to determine a maximum frequency of the occurrence of the one or more selected events over the input date range.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the plurality of collection assemblies comprises an automatic license plate reader.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein captured information includes a date and a time stamp.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or more of a statistical or probabilistic model of the classification and search engine identifies the electronic signatures.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the intelligence system is configured to track targets based on the electronic signatures identified from the captured information.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is configured to enable visual navigation of variations in one or more of a day, a week, a time, an area, a violation class, or an investigative case.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the intelligence system is further configured to deploy one or more of investigative resources or enforcement resources based on the one or more selected events exceeding a selected frequency, exhibiting a consistency of occurrence, or combination thereof.
9. A method for statistical event analysis of alarms and other selected events, the method comprising:
determine a certainty of an association between an electronic signature and a visual identifier based on a frequency or consistency of the electronic signature and the visual identifier, and identifying and associating the electronic signature, the visual identifier, or combinations thereof, with one or more targets;
receiving a fixed one or more of a day of the week, a time of the day, or a classification of a source;
receiving a selection of one or more factors;
generating a distribution of events in a data history based on the one or more targets and (1) the received fixed one or more of a day of the week, the time of the day, or the classification of the source and (2) the selection of one or more factors; and
generating a visualization of events based on the distribution.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, deploying, automatically and based on frequency and consistency of the events, one or more of investigative resources or enforcement resources.
11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, predicting, based on frequency and consistency of the events, patterns of potential criminal or suspect conduct of one or more selected targets at one or more locations and at one or more times.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising, deploying one or more of investigative resources or enforcement resources based on the one or more selected events exceeding a selected frequency, exhibiting a consistency of occurrence, or combination thereof.
13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining, based on the distribution of events, information to track movement of one or more selected targets; and
generating one or more visualizations based on the information to track movement of one or more selected targets.
14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the data history is collected from one or more of an intelligence system or a plurality of collection systems.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein one or more of the intelligence system or plurality of collection systems are configured to gather data history related to one or more selected targets.
16. The method of claim 9 , wherein the data history further comprises physical characteristics of a target, electronic signal of or associated with the target, other visual or audio information associated with the target, or other information related to a corresponding factor potentially related to the target.
17. A system for electronic signature tracking and analysis, comprising:
a plurality of collection assemblies configured to capture information associated with one or more targets in one or more selected areas and including visual identifiers, electronic signatures, or a combination thereof;
a user interface configured to enable a user to select a time period for analysis or detection of an occurrence of one or more selected events and one or more parameters relating to the one or more selected events, the one or more parameters including a violation type, one or more known targets, a vehicle or group of vehicles, one or more alarm classes, one or more selected areas, or a combination thereof, during the selected time period;
an intelligence system including:
one or more processors;
one or more computer readable memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more correlation and search engines to:
store captured information comprising the visual identifiers, the electronic signatures, and collected event data including received alarms indicative of different violation types;
sorting the collected event data into the one or more alarm classes;
determine a certainty of an association between one or more of the electronic signatures with one of the visual identifiers based on a frequency or consistency of the electronic signatures and the visual identifiers, and identify and associate one or more of the visual identifiers, electronic signatures, or combinations thereof, with one or more targets;
in response to receiving, through the user interface, a user selection of the time period and the one or more parameters relating to the one or more selected events, correlating the visual identifiers and the electronic signatures of at least one target of the one or more targets with the one or more selected events and developing an event analysis indicating a distribution of the one or more selected events during the selected time period, and developing a forecast of a frequency of occurrence of the one or more selected events, during the selected time period using the event analysis; and
generate a visualization of the event analysis indicating an occurrence the of one or more selected events during the selected time period for display at the user interface.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the event analysis further includes an indication of a number of the one or more selected events during the selected time period.
19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the instructions further comprise receiving a user input to filter the event analysis based on a license plate, a make or model of a vehicle, a type of vehicle, or a color of vehicle.
20. The system of claim 17 , wherein the instructions further comprise receiving a user input to filter the event analysis based on a specified one of the plurality of collection assemblies or a specified automatic license plate reader (ALPR).