US Patent 10078787 Crowd-based video identification and analytical recognition system

An analytical recognition system includes one or more video cameras configured to capture video and a video analytics module configured to perform real-time video processing and analyzation of the captured video and generate non-video data. The video analytic module includes one or more algorithms configured to identify an abnormal situation. Each abnormal situation alerts the video analytics module to automatically issue an alert and track one or more objects or individuals by utilizing the one or more video cameras. The abnormal situation is selected from the group consisting of action of a particular individual, non-action of a particular individual, a temporal event, and an externally generated event.