Realtime video display method of mixed signals

• US 20060001741A1
• Filed: 12/08/2004
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UniSVR Global Information Technology Corp.
• Original Assignee: UniSVR Global Information Technology Corp.
• Inventors: Lin, Wen Kai, Chang, Chung Ho, Hsu, Huei Lan, Chen, Chen Lung, Cheng, Chi Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/006,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20060001741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234363 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for clients with a lower screen resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite

Abstract

A realtime video display method of mixed signals applies to a monitoring system. The monitoring system has a monitoring host connected to a plurality of digital monitoring devices and a plurality of analog monitoring devices. In this method, digital video data from an Internet/LAN/WAN and analog video data from a transmission interface are first received. Next, a data fetch server is used to collect the video data for processing and then output the processed image data to a data mixer. The data mixer then merges the digital video data and the analog video data into a signal mixing different data sources. The digital video data and the analog video data can thus be displayed at a browse terminal in real time. Therefore, signals of different types can be integrated for realtime display on the same management screen to effectively exploit a real benefit of security management.

Claims

1. A realtime video display method of mixed signals applied to a monitoring system, said monitoring system comprising a monitoring host connected to a plurality of digital monitoring devices via an Internet/LAN/WAN and to a plurality of analog monitoring devices via a transmission interface, said realtime video display method of mixed signal comprising the steps of:

receiving a digital video data from said Internet/LAN/WAN and an analog video data from said transmission interface, respectively;

using a data fetch server to collect said video data and then output said video data after processing; and

merging said digital video data and said analog video data into a signal mixing sources so that said digital video data and said analog video data can be displayed at a browse terminal in real time.

2. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein a data mixer is used to merge said digital video data and said analog video data for synchronous processing.

3. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a step of storing video into a database so that said digital 1 video data and said analog video data can be displayed at a browse terminal in real time after said step of merging said digital video data and said analog video data into a signal mixing data source.

4. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said data fetch server processes said analog video data into a digital signal source for subsequent processing so that said analog video data can be viewed as one whose source is a digital monitoring device.

5. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said monitoring system has a network communication device connected with said Internet/LAN/WAN for receiving said digital video data.

6. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said monitoring system has a bus communication device connected with said transmission interface for receiving said analog video data.

7. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said Internet/LAN/WAN is of TCP/IP architecture, and each of said digital monitoring devices has an individual IP address assigned to it.

8. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said LAN/WAN is an Ethernet network.

9. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said signal mixing different data sources is displayed on the same screen or on different screens.

10. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said browse terminal is connected to said monitoring host via a network to make use of a network viewer for browsing said signal mixing different data sources.

11. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said browse terminal can select captured images of a monitoring device to be displayed on the same monitoring screen, and the image source is from said analog monitoring device and/or said digital monitoring device.

12. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said data mixer can receive video data of different video formats.

13. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, which is integrated using the same software.

14. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the format of said analog video is either NTSC or PAL.

15. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said digital monitoring device is an IP camera.

16. The realtime video display method of mixed signal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the format of said digital video is MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.263, or H.264.

17. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said the monitoring system can connect to the access control.

18. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said the monitoring system can connect to the detectors.

19. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 18, wherein said detectors comprise at least one selected from the group composed of magnetic contact, infrared detector, microwave spatial detector, glass vibration detector, smoke detector, temperature sensor, gas detector, flame detector, carbon monoxide detector, poisonous gas detector, emergency push-button, wireless help seeker, flash alarm, and indication light.

20. The realtime video display method of mixed signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transmission interface is one selected from the group composed of PCI, USB, and IEEE 1394.