CCTV MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SUPPORTING EXTENDED DATA TRANSMISSION COVERAGE THROUGH WIRELESS LAN

• US 20090322876A1
• Filed: 06/26/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SDC Micro Inc.
• Original Assignee: SDC Micro Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Seung-Ho, Lee, Joo-Hyeong
• Application Number:
  US12/492,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20090322876A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

Disclosed is a management system of an area to be photographed using a plurality of CCTVs, and more particularly to, a CCTV management system supporting an extended data transmission coverage with a wireless LAN, in which a plurality of CCTVs are installed in an area to be photographed and are collectively managed, that can be installed easier than a wired CCTV management system and can remove a limit to the data transmission coverage of a wireless CCTV management system by sequentially transmitting data photographed by the CCTVs in accordance with the access order of distances so that data photographed by a CCTV and data photographed by the other CCTVs are encoded and transmitted.

Claims

1. A closed-circuit television (CCTV) management system in which a plurality of wireless LAN transmission type CCTVs are installed in preset positions so that photographed data thereof are received and are collectively managed, the CCTV management system comprising:

a plurality of CCTVs installed within coverage of an object to be photographed and managed and including wireless LAN modules to wirelessly transmit and receive photographed data;

an access point receiving the photographed data from the CCTVs;

a packet demultiplexer receiving the photographed data from the access point to generate compressed image data obtained by removing header data from the photographed data;

an image decoder receiving the compressed image data from the packet demultiplexer to decode the compressed image data; and

a display receiving the decoded image data from the image decoder to output the decoded image data;

wherein the plurality of CCTVs sequentially transmit the photographed data in an order set in accordance with a distance and mix the photographed data received during transmission with data photographed by a corresponding CCTV to transmit mixed data.

2. The CCTV management system of claim 1, wherein each of the CCTVs comprises:

a camera module photographing a target object;

an image encoder compressing the photographed data transmitted from the camera module;

a packet multiplexer receiving the compressed image data from the image encoder to give the header data;

a packet demultiplexer removing the header data from the photographed data transmitted from a previous CCTV as the image data are transmitted in a set order to extract the compressed image data and to transmit the compressed image data to the packet multiplexer so that the corresponding image data and the image data of the previous CCTV are mixed with each other by the packet multiplexer; and

a wireless LAN module transmitting the mixed image data transmitted from the packet multiplexer to a next CCTV in accordance with the set order and receiving the mixed image data from the previous CCTV to transmit the received mixed image data to the packet demultiplexer.

3. The CCTV management system of claim 2, wherein the header data given by the packet multiplexer includes addresses of next CCTVs to be transmitted in the set order.