Systems and methods for managing access to surveillance cameras

The present invention overcomes or ameliorates at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a method for providing access to live video data from a plurality of cameras in a DVM system, the method including: maintaining data indicative of cameras in a hierarchical structure; recei...

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Main Authors BOYES, CRAIG, FLANNERY, MARK, HOU, HOLLY, PALMER, SALLY-ANNE, WORRILL, JOSHUA
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 06.08.2014
Subjects
ALARM SYSTEMS
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
ORDER TELEGRAPHS
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
SIGNALLING
SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS
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Summary:The present invention overcomes or ameliorates at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a method for providing access to live video data from a plurality of cameras in a DVM system, the method including: maintaining data indicative of cameras in a hierarchical structure; receiving, from a user of a client terminal, a command indicative of: (i) an instruction to generate a multi-camera view; and (ii) a defined selection of cameras defined by reference to the hierarchical structure; in response to the command, defining a camera workspace view for rendering at the client terminal, wherein the camera workspace view is configured to provide a plurality of video display objects that are respectively configured to display live video data from the defined selection of cameras.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20140153282