Improved Observation and Communication with a Distributed Compound Vision Surveillance System

Video surveillance systems are used in a variety of applications from home health monitoring to commercial security systems. A fixed or rotating camera has limitations as to the coverage area and resolution of the captured image. In this article we propose a new concept for the implementation of surveillance that shows significant improvement over the performance of distributed single cameras system by providing multiple angles of image capture without motion at each location. Our concept is called distributed compound vision.