DIGITAL VIDEO RECORD DEVICE WITH TOUCH-PANEL HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE

• US 20090235169A1
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Topvision Display Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Topvision Display Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Cheng, Kuei-Pi
• Application Number:
  US12/171,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20090235169A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface includes a touch panel and a digital video record electronic apparatus. The touch panel is disposed in front of the screen of a monitor, electrically connected to the digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus. The digital video record electronic apparatus electrically connects with at least a video camera, processes video signals generated by the video cameras, displays video signal related pictures and a plurality of icons denoting an operating instruction on the monitor, receives the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determines whether the touch coordinate signals correspond to a display range of the icons, and executes, upon affirmative determination, an operating instruction corresponding to the determined icon.

Claims

1. A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface, comprising:

a touch panel disposed in front of a screen of a monitor, electrically connected to a digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus; and

the digital video record electronic apparatus for electrically connecting with at least a video camera, processing video signals generated by the video cameras, displaying video signal related pictures and a plurality of icons denoting operating instructions on the monitor, receiving the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determining whether the touch coordinate signals correspond to a display range of the icons, and executing, upon affirmative determination, an operating instruction corresponding to the determined icon.

2. The digital video record device of claim 1, wherein the icons are displayed at a junction of split windows on the screen of the monitor.

3. The digital video record device of claim 1, wherein the icons are displayed at any display region of the monitor.

4. The digital video record device of claim 1, wherein the monitor is a liquid crystal monitor.

5. The digital video record device of claim 1, wherein the monitor and the touch panel are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

6. The digital video record device of claim 1, wherein the touch panel, the digital video record electronic apparatus, and the monitor are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

7. A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface, comprising:

a touch panel disposed in front of a screen of a monitor, electrically connected to a digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus;

the digital video record electronic apparatus for electrically connecting with at least a video camera, processing video signals generated by the video cameras, displaying video signal related pictures on the monitor in real-time, receiving the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determining whether the touch coordinate signals are within a predetermined region of the monitor, displaying, upon affirmative determination, a plurality of icons denoting operating instructions on the monitor, receiving again the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determining whether the touch coordinate signals correspond to a display range of the icons, and executing, upon affirmative determination, an operating instruction corresponding to the determined icon.

8. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the predetermined region is located at a junction of split window screens of the monitor.

9. The digital video record device of claim 8, wherein the icons are displayed at a junction of split window screens of the monitor.

10. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the predetermined region is any display region of the monitor.

11. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the digital video record device stops the displaying of the icons and restores an original picture on the monitor whenever the digital video record device has not received the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel again for a predetermined period of time after the digital video record electronic apparatus displayed a plurality of icons denoting an operating instruction on the monitor.

12. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the monitor is a liquid crystal monitor.

13. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the monitor and the touch panel are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

14. The digital video record device of claim 7, wherein the touch panel, the digital video record electronic apparatus, and the monitor are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

15. A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface, comprising:

a touch panel disposed in front of a screen of a monitor, electrically connected to a digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus;

the digital video record electronic apparatus for electrically connecting with at least a video camera, processing video signals generated by the video cameras, displaying video signal related pictures on the monitor, receiving the touch coordinate signals from the touch panel, determining which one of the video cameras is attributed to a corresponding one of the video signal related pictures having a display range matching the touch coordinate signals, and executing an operating instruction on the determined picture only.

16. The digital video record device of claim 15, wherein the monitor is a liquid crystal monitor.

17. The digital video record device of claim 15, wherein the monitor and the touch panel are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

18. The digital video record device of claims 15, wherein the touch panel, the digital video record electronic apparatus, and the monitor are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

19. The digital video record device of claim 15, wherein the operating instruction is one selected from the group consisting of an operating instruction to scale up a window display range, an operating instruction to scale down a window display range, an operating instruction to restore an original window display range, and an operating instruction to define an image motion detection region.

20. A digital video record device with a touch-panel human machine interface, comprising:

a touch panel disposed in front of a screen of a monitor, electrically connected to a digital video record electronic apparatus, configured to generate touch coordinate signals, and adapted to send the touch coordinate signals to the digital video record electronic apparatus;

the digital video record electronic apparatus for electrically connecting with at least a video camera, processing video signals generated by the video cameras, displaying video signal related pictures on the monitor, setting sub-regions in the pictures to an image motion detection region, and executing, upon detection of image motion and/or change by the image motion detection region, an operating instruction on only the pictures with detected image motion and/or change.

21. The digital video record device of claim 20, wherein the monitor is a liquid crystal monitor.

22. The digital video record device of claim 20, wherein the monitor and the touch panel are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

23. The digital video record device of claim 20, wherein the touch panel, the digital video record electronic apparatus, and the monitor are integrated with one another to form a one-piece device.

24. The digital video record device of claim 20, wherein the operating instruction is one selected from the group consisting of an operating instruction of video record, an operating instruction to output an alert message, and an operating instruction of high definition video record.