Canon balances privacy, efficacy in CCTV demos

For a few days this week, one corner of Paris became one of the most closely surveilled in the city, as Canon showed what the future of CCTV might look like. The company demonstrated a system that respect privacy by only recording persons entering a restricted area, and another that can call up images from a network of cameras corresponding to a person of interest. Canon is increasingly moving beyond its core activities in copying/printing, medical imaging and photography, boosting its