Canon Completes Acquisition of BriefCam
14 Feb 2019
BriefCam, the industry’s leading provider of Video Synopsis® and Deep Learning solutions, announced its acquisition by Canon Inc., a world leader in digital imaging solutions, is complete. With BriefCam, Canon will deliver an even broader range of leading-edge technology and solutions in the fields of network cameras, video management software and video content analysis software to customers and partners across the globe. BriefCam will continue its operations as a standalone company within the Canon Group, continuing to remain an open platform, working seamlessly with other third-party products in the market ecosystem, providing customers with freedom of choice.
“We are excited to officially be joining the Canon Group,” said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of BriefCam. “BriefCam and Canon are both focused on advanced innovations and leading-edge technology solutions, and together we look forward to continuing to deliver industry disrupting video content analytics solutions and accelerating co-innovation opportunities.”
BriefCam’s breakthrough technology detects, tracks, extracts and identifies people, objects, their attributes and behavior from video. By presenting objects that have appeared at different times within the video simultaneously, BriefCam enables the review of hours of video in minutes. BriefCam’s embedded BI platform utilizes the extracted and aggregated video metadata such as men, women, children, vehicles, size, color, speed, path, direction, and dwell time, enabling users to quantitatively analyze their video, derive actionable insights, and visualize them within customizable dashboards for data driven safety, security and operational decision making. BriefCam’s near real-time alerting capabilities leverages its advanced analytical capabilities to effectively balance sensitivity, accuracy and efficiency.
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