Video Distribution Device

• US 20080225119A1
• Filed: 01/21/2005
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Murata, Shigeyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/586,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20080225119A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/153
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/258 Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A video display function that enables the user to view video. When a plurality of video signals are displayed on a screen, processes are performed to set at least one pattern of information about the arrangement of video signals on the screen, display a list of arrangement information, select at least one pattern of arrangement information from the displayed arrangement information list, and reproduce video signals on the screen according to the selected arrangement information. A video distribution system distributes video signals through a network to client terminals. The video distribution system manages user accounts, holds user information of each user account, acquires the previous access time of the user account associated with the client terminal currently keeping login to the system according to user information held by the system, and transmits to the client terminal information of whether any alarm-recorded video exists after the previous access time.

Claims

1. A video distribution system for distributing a video through a network to a client terminal, comprising:

video arrangement information registering means that registers video arrangement information of a plurality of video arrangements on a video displaying area based on a notice from the client terminal;

video arrangement information list transmitting means that transmits a list of the video arrangement information registered by the video arrangement information registering means to the client terminal; and

video distributing means that distributes the video to the client based on a video distribution request from the client terminal based on the video arrangement information selected by the client terminal from the video arrangement information list.

2. The video distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising video arrangement information setting box transmitting means that transmits to the client terminal a video arrangement information setting screen for setting the video arrangement information.

3. The video distribution system according to claim 2, wherein the video arrangement information setting box has a function to set an identification number of the video for displaying at each position in the video displaying area, and another function to set at least either one of an identification number and an identification name of the video arrangement information.

4. A video distribution system for distributing a video through a network to client terminals, comprising:

user information holding means that manages a plurality of user accounts and holds user information of each of the user accounts;

previous access time acquiring means that acquires a previous access time of the user account of the client terminal currently keeping to login based on the user information held by the user information holding means; and

alarm video presence information transmitting means that transmits to the client terminal, information of whether any alarm-recorded video exists after the acquired previous access time.