Patent awarded for ‘behavioral recognition’ surveillance software system

March 30, 2012 – TECH WORLD – The American surveillance state is becoming increasingly advanced, expansive and capable of processing huge amounts of data at blinding speeds. Now Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc., also known as BRS Labs, has developed an artificial intelligence-based system which supposedly can automatically recognize human behavior. Technology which seems similar on the surface already exists and is being used on surveillance platforms like the “Intellistreets” street lights. These street lights, which are outfitted with a great deal of surveillance equipment, are reportedly capable of monitoring activity and telling the difference between certain behaviors while also being able to tell the difference between humans and animals. This technology could be used to enforce curfews, track the movement of individuals, and supposedly spot fights and other crimes. However, BRS Labs’ technology, which was awarded U.S. patent number 8,131,012 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to Government Security News, seems to blow that older system out of the water. This is because previous technologies relied on specific rules put in place by human operators, whereas the new system relies on “reason-based video surveillance behavior recognition software.” This patent is actually part of over 60 related U.S. patents which are currently either pending approval, in process or already granted, all of which are part of the “AISight 3.0” video surveillance software system. –Activist Post Yahoo News

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6 Responses to Patent awarded for ‘behavioral recognition’ surveillance software system

Robert Finnagan says:

March 30, 2012 at 12:43 pm

Large corporations have been using technology such as this for at least the last 10 years (I have worked with programmers who have helped write most of it) in order to track “slip and fall” incidents and make real-time determinations if they are fraudulent, notify teams of attorneys and even automatically email or notify store managers authorization to cut a check on the spot (Home Depot and WalMart both have this technology in place). The fact that local, state and federal governments are starting to use this technology is no suprise now, typically they follow in our corporate footsteps on trends that they may find “usefull”.

remnant13 says:

March 30, 2012 at 12:58 pm

I’m just ticked that the machines are aware that we are aware that they are aware of their awareness. HAL – open the pod-bay doors – PLEASE~!?~!?

- remnant13 says:
  
  March 30, 2012 at 1:13 pm
  
  “Today, the fastest supercomputers operate at the petaFLOP level says Nikolopoulos, performing in excess of one quadrillion (or a million billion) operations per second.”
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/29/tech/super-computer-exa-flop/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11
  
Debora says:

March 30, 2012 at 5:29 pm

While I appreciate your blog and posts, It would be enormously helpful if you would post legitimate news sources for these articles rather than someone else’s blog. While I realize that “normal” or “legitimate” news sources are often specious, so are blogs… I am very careful about what I propagate on the web and I believe you are upright in your postings, but since I don’t know the source of this other person from whom you reposted this and that person provides no other sources except other bloggers, I have a hard time forwarding this on to other people and forums.

I’m not trying to be difficult here, I do appreciate what you do her.

Best,
Deb

- The Extinction Protocol says:
  
  March 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm
  
  Well, you should forward it because the report was gleaned from a national press-release that came across the wires. See Yahoo News link at end of article.
  
  Thx for tuning in
  A.
  
Emanni says:

September 9, 2012 at 2:11 pm

FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-recognition-system-ngi-640/

Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week.