System and method for digital type wireless monitoring

• US 20080174662A1
• Filed: 01/23/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jung-Kun Cho, Won-Gue Choi
• Original Assignee: Jung-Kun Cho, Won-Gue Choi
• Inventors: Cho, Jung-Kun, Choi, Won-Gue
• Application Number:
  US11/656,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20080174662A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A digital type wireless monitoring system includes transmitters having cameras associated therewith; and a receiver displaying image signals on a screen, the image signals being captured with the cameras at the transmitters and received wirelessly while being installed within a specified distance from the transmitters. Each transmitter performs an MPEG-4 encoding, which compresses only the image signals while excluding audio signals; and creates a file by combining a header containing information of each transmitter and communication standard with each of the image signals for each frame. Further, the receiver having a permanent IP address receives the files received by an AP; receives the files containing header information via the AP; streaming replays images of many channels simultaneously or images of a single channel by using a streaming viewer; stores the image signals of each transmitter being streaming replayed to a designated storage space under the control of a supervisor.

Claims

1. A digital type wireless monitoring system comprising:

transmitters having cameras associated therewith; and

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a receiver displaying image signals on a screen, the image signals being captured with the cameras at the transmitters and received wirelessly while being installed within a specified distance from the transmitters, and in which;

each transmitter performs an MPEG-4 encoding, for each frame, of the image signals captured by the cameras by using an MPEG-4 codec;

performs again the MPEG-4 encoding of each of the MPEG-4 encoded image signals by each frame with an encoder, which compresses only the image signals while excluding audio signals; and

creates a file by combining a header containing information of each transmitter and communication standard with each of the image signals for each frame, the image signals being encoded twice as discussed above;

an AP receives files containing a header information simultaneously from the transmitters by each frame via different channels; and

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the receiver having a permanent IP address receives the files received by the AP by using a time division method via the AP;

receives files containing header information by each frame captured from a plurality of the transmitters via the AP;

after decoding respective files by specifying each transmitter based on the information contained in the header of each of the file received by frame, streaming replays images of many channels simultaneously or images of a single channel by using a streaming viewer;

stores the image signals of each transmitter being streaming replayed to a designated storage space under the control of a supervisor.

2. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 1, wherein each of the transmitters include a video driver, a video driver controller, a camera, a camera driver, a controller, an encoder, and a wireless communication unit, and in which:

the video driver requests each image signal by frame captured from the camera to the camera driver once each image signal by frame captured from the camera is requested by the video driver controller, and outputs each image signal by frame inputted from the camera driver to the video driver controller;

the video driver controller requests each image signal by frame captured from the camera to the video driver once each image signal by frame captured from the camera is requested by the controller, and outputs to the controller image signals by frame inputted from the video driver after encoding the image signal into MPEG-4 by using an MPEG-4 encoder;

the camera outputs images of a monitoring target captured therewith under the control of the camera driver;

the camera driver outputs each image signal by frame captured form the camera to the video driver once each image signal by frame captured by the camera is requested by the video driver;

the controller requests each image signal by frame captured from the camera to the video driver controller;

controls a two-stage encoding process which compresses only image signal while excluding audio signals once the image signal by frame encoded in MPEG-4 is inputted from the video driver controller;

creates a file by combining each image signal by frame encoded twice with the encoder with a header containing information of respective transmitter and information of communication standard; and

transmits the respective file after performing an encryption via a wireless communication network to the AP 200;

the encoder performs the two-stage encoding to compress only image signals while excluding audio signals, the image signals being processed by each frame by an MPEG-4 encoding at the video driver controller under the control of the controller, and outputs each double encoded image signal by frame to the controller; and

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the wireless communication unit transmits files containing header information formed with each frame under the control of the controller to the AP via a wireless network by using different channels.

3. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the transmitters include a wireless communication unit, a streaming driver, a decoder, a display unit, a storage driver, and a data storage unit, and in which:

the wireless communication unit receives files from each of a plurality of the transmitters transmitted by frame according to a time division method from the AP; and

outputs each file by frame to the streaming driver by specifying each transmitter based on header information included in each file by frame after confirming an encryption of each file by frame received from the AP;

the streaming driver controls decoding of each file by frame inputted according to each transmitter from the wireless communication unit; and

controls streaming replaying of each decoded signal by frame of different channels simultaneously, or controls streaming replaying on a screen from a single channel with a streaming viewer;

the decoder decodes each file by frame transmitted from each transmitter based on a request of the streaming driver, and outputs each decoded image signal by frame of different channels to a streaming driver;

the display unit streaming replays each image signal by frame of different channels inputted from the streaming driver through a streaming viewer;

the storage driver controls storing of respective image signals, where the image signals are being streaming replayed via the display unit once a supervisor, who monitors the image signals specified by each transmitter with a streaming viewer, selects to store specific channel image signals; and

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the data storage unit stores image signals of a specific channel, the image signals being streaming replayed via the display unit under the control of the storage driver.

4. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 3, the receiver is any one of a server computer, a laptop PC, and a desktop PC.

5. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 3, wherein the receiver further includes a codec player dedicated for replaying data stored by each channel and is capable of replaying image signals of a specific channel stored in advance by decoding via the decoder respective data which has been stored in advance at the data storage unit after operating the codec player according to a command given by the supervisor to replay the images.

6. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 3, wherein the receiver, in case of using a file converter, is capable of replaying each file by frame by using an ordinary replaying program transmitted from a plurality of the transmitters via the AP after converting the file into an ordinary file.

7. The digital type wireless monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the AP uses other wireless communication equipments other than a communication equipment having the receiver, if any wireless internet connection is connected to the AP.

8. A digital type wireless monitoring method for performing a monitoring by displaying on a screen image signals captured from cameras, which are wirelessly transmitted from transmitters installed within a specific distance from the transmitters to a receiver,

wherein the method comprises:

(1) performing an MPEG-4 encoding, for each frame, of the image signals captured by the cameras from a plurality of the transmitters by using an MPEG-4 codec;

performing again the MPEG-4 encoding of each of thus encoded MPEG-4 image signals by frame with an encoder, which compresses only the image signals while excluding audio signals;

creating files by combining a header having information of each transmitter and communication standard with each of the image signals for each frame, where the image signals are encoded twice; and

transmitting the files containing header information formed with each frame by using different channels to an AP;

(2) receiving the files containing the header information of each frame which are simultaneously transmitted via different channels for each frame from a plurality of the transmitters; and

transmitting respective files received from the transmitters to the receiver having a permanent IP address by using a time division method; and

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(3) receiving the files containing header information by frame captured from a plurality of the transmitters via the AP;

after decoding respective files by specifying each transmitter based on the information contained in the header of each of the files by frame received, streaming replaying images of different channels simultaneously or images of a single channel by using a streaming viewer; and

storing the image signals of each transmitter being streaming replayed to a designated storage space under the control of a supervisor.

9. The digital type wireless monitoring method of claim 8 which further comprises:

(4) operating a codec player dedicated for replaying data stored by each frame in the receiver according to a key input given by the supervisor to replay image signals of a specific channel stored in advance; and

replaying the respective data of the channel stored in advance via the dedicated codec player by decoding the data thereof.

10. The digital type wireless monitoring method of claim 8 wherein performing step (1) comprises:

(1-1) requesting a frame of a camera captured image signal to the video driver controller with the controller of each transmitter;

(1-2) requesting a frame to the video driver with the video driver controller that has received the requested frame from the controller;

(1-3) providing the video driver that has received the request of one frame from the video driver controller with a respective frame by requesting a frame to the camera driver via a camera API (application programming interface);

(1-4) outputting a frame inputted from the camera driver to the video driver controller with the video driver;

(1-5) outputting, after encoding the frame received from the video driver by using a MPEG-4 codec, the encoded respective frame to the controller with the video driver controller;

(1-6) requesting an encoding of the encoded MPEG-4 frame via the video driver controller, after outputting only an image signal portion of the frame by using the encoder that only compresses image signals while excluding audio signals, with the controller;

(1-7) outputting respective double encoded frame via a codec to the controller with the encoder;

(1-8) creating a file by combining the double encoded frame through the encoder with a header containing transmitter information and information on communication standard with the controller; and

(1-9) transmitting the file having the header combined therewith to the AP via the wireless communication unit after encrypting the header.

11. The digital type wireless monitoring method of claim 8 wherein receiving step (3) comprises:

(3-1) confirming encryption of each received file with the wireless communication unit of the receiver that has received each file by frame captured at a plurality of the transmitters from the AP;

(3-2) specifying, at the wireless communication unit that has confirmed the encryption, each transmitter based on information contained in a header of each file by frame received from the AP;

(3-3) outputting each file by frame specified by each respective transmitter to the streaming driver with the wireless communication unit that has specified the transmitters that has transmitted each file by frame based on the information contained in the header;

(3-4) requesting decoding of each file by frame after outputting the file by using the decoder, the file being inputted from the wireless communication unit, with the streaming driver;

(3-5) decoding respective file received from each transmitter according to the request by the streaming driver with the decoder, and outputting the decoded frame to the streaming driver with the decoder;

(3-6) outputting the decoded respective frame to the display unit via the decoder and controlling streaming replaying of each screen of each channel with a streaming viewer simultaneously, or controlling streaming replaying of a screen from a single channel with a streaming viewer with the streaming driver;

(3-7) determining whether a storing of an image signal from a specific channel is selected by a supervisor monitoring each image signal by frame, the images being streaming replayed through a streaming viewer; and

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(3-8) storing the specific image signals selected by the supervisor to the data storage unit, once storing regarding image signal from a specific channel is selected from the supervisor, with the storage driver.