Multi video device control and expansion method and apparatus
First Claim
1. A digital video recorder-controller apparatus (DVRC) comprising:
- a network port for communicatively connecting the DVRC with at least one other apparatus on a network;
wherein the DVRC is adapted to transmit through the network port a first selection of digitized video signals, wherein the first selection can include one or more digitized video signals being transmitted to a first other apparatus on the network;
and wherein the DVRC is further adapted to receive through the network port a second selection of digitized video signals, wherein the second selection can include one or more digitized video signals being transmitted by a second other apparatus on the network;
wherein the DVRC is adapted to facilitate designation of the digitized video signals of the second selection.
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Abstract
A digital video recorder-controller apparatus (DVRC) having a network port for transmitting and receiving digitized video signals and for controlling one or more other DVRCs, and/or digital video recorders (DVRs, e.g., DVRCs operating in slave-mode). A digital video system including a networked DVRC having cameras and a networked DVR having cameras. The DVR may be remote from the DVRC, yet video signals from the cameras of the both the DVR and the DVRC can be selected, viewed, and/or recorded at the DVRC'"'"'s location. A method for expanding a digital video system including providing at least one DVRC.
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20 Claims
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1. A digital video recorder-controller apparatus (DVRC) comprising:
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a network port for communicatively connecting the DVRC with at least one other apparatus on a network;
wherein the DVRC is adapted to transmit through the network port a first selection of digitized video signals, wherein the first selection can include one or more digitized video signals being transmitted to a first other apparatus on the network;
and wherein the DVRC is further adapted to receive through the network port a second selection of digitized video signals, wherein the second selection can include one or more digitized video signals being transmitted by a second other apparatus on the network;
wherein the DVRC is adapted to facilitate designation of the digitized video signals of the second selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20)
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12. A digital video system comprising:
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a network;
a first plurality of video cameras operatively connected to a digital video recorder controller apparatus (DVRC) on the network, the DVRC having;
a first network port for communicatively connecting the DVRC with at least one other apparatus on the network;
a first plurality of video-out ports adapted to facilitate the display of one or more video signals on one or more DVRC monitors;
wherein the DVRC is adapted to receive through the first network port a first selection of digitized video signals including one or more digitized video signals transmitted by a first other apparatus on the network; and
a second plurality of video cameras operatively connected to a digital video recorder (DVR) on the network, the DVR having;
a second plurality of video-out ports adapted to facilitate the display of one or more video signals on one or more DVR monitors;
a second network port for communicatively connecting the DVR with the DVRC on the network;
wherein the DVR is adapted to transmit through the second network port a second selection of digitized video signals, wherein the second selection of digitized video signals includes one or more digitized video signals of the first selection of digitized video signals.
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17. A method for expanding a digital video system comprising:
a) providing a first digital video recorder-controller apparatus (DVRC) having;
a DVRC network port;
at least one control panel;
wherein the first DVRC is adapted to receive through the DVRC network port a selection of digitized video signals; and
a plurality of DVRC video-out ports adapted to facilitate the display of one or more video signals on one or more video monitors.
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