Networked monitor appliance

• US 9,918,045 B1
• Filed: 07/07/2015
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carrier Fire & Security Americas Corporation (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Original Assignee: S2 Security Corp. (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Moss, John L., Schroder, Kenneth J., Mahagaokar, Ajay, Firth, Christopher W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Adams, Eileen
• Application Number:
  US14/792,888
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An integrated security system operating over a network includes networked video sources, networked monitor appliances and networked monitor appliance controllers. Video streams are processed by the networked monitor appliances for display on a monitor.

Claims

1. A system to display video over a network comprising:

at least one networked monitor appliance comprising;

a network interface coupled to the network;

a local database coupled to the network interface adapted to receive predetermined resource information from at least one networked monitor controller;

a command interface coupled to the network interface and the local database adapted to receive commands from the at least one networked monitor controller including;

registration data;

at least one view; and

at least one video display request;

a view scheduler coupled to the local database;

a rules engine coupled to the view scheduler;

a video stream processor coupled to the view scheduler and adapted to receive at least one incoming video stream from at least one video stream source in response to the at least one video display request;

at least one video display monitor coupled to the view scheduler; and

wherein the view scheduler and the rules engine specify operation of the networked monitor appliance in processing the at least one incoming video stream and displaying corresponding video content;

wherein the at least one view comprises a View Data Structure including a layout; and

wherein the layout includes a plurality of cells and at least one of the plurality of cells is adapted to display the at least one incoming video stream.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the networked monitor appliance further comprises a slave processor and a networked monitor appliance command interface.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the networked monitor appliance command interface further comprises an event engine coupled to the rules engine, the view scheduler and the video stream processor.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the event engine is adapted to receive security events from at least one of:

a global security control system;

a local security control system;

the at least one networked monitor controller; and

a mobile application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one incoming video stream originates from a crowd sourced video.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one video stream includes a token to authenticate the at least one incoming video stream.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the networked monitor appliance further comprises a Human Machine Interface (HMI) coupled to the network interface.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the networked monitor appliance further comprises at least one predetermined default incoming video stream request processing rule.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one networked monitor controller within the system comprises one of:

a security system;

a digital video recorder (DVR);

a forensic desktop; and

an access control system; and

wherein the at least one networked monitor controller further comprises;

a network interface coupled to the network;

a view manager coupled to the network interface;

a view builder coupled to the network interface.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the view comprises a View Data Structure including a layout;

and the at least one networked monitor appliance further comprises a cell manager to determine which display object (DO) is included within a display layout cell (DLC).

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising a registration engine adapted to register at least one of:

a video source; and

a networked monitor appliance.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one video stream includes a token to authenticate the at least one incoming video stream.

13. A computer-implemented method to display video stream across a network comprising:

configuring a network monitor appliance including naming the network monitor appliance;

registering the named network monitor appliance;

building a view for the named network monitor appliance;

activating the view on the named network monitor appliance;

receiving a video stream corresponding to the activated view;

applying a set of rules to the video stream to determine a display priority and configuration;

scheduling the video stream according to the set of rules; and

displaying the video stream in the view on at least one display monitor of the named network monitor appliance; and

including location information, time stamp and authenticity data in the at least one video stream.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein activating a view further comprises:

receiving an event;

processing the event; and

generating a video display request to the named network monitor appliance to activate the view.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising canceling the activated view in response to resolving the event.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein activating the view further comprises:

generating a video display request to the named network monitor appliance to activate the view in response to a command from a user interface.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising locking the view for display.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising deactivating the view in response to one of:

receiving a command to deactivate the view;

detecting an expiration of a view life timer;

receiving a dismissal through a user interface of the named network monitor appliance; and

resolving an event which activated the view and receiving a deactivation command.

19. The method of claim 13 further comprising sharing the view on the network monitor appliance with second network monitor appliance;

wherein sharing a view comprises transporting a view object from the network monitor appliance to the second network monitor appliance.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the video stream includes a secure stream handle, a source designator, a start time, a duration, and an encoding method.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the secure video stream handle is a temporary, randomly generated, authentication token obtained through a secure process, and becomes invalid when one of:

the video stream corresponding to the secure video steam handle is closed; and

an underlying connection is dropped.

22. The method of claim 13 further comprising sending an identity packet in response to receiving a source system identification configuration command from a networked monitor appliance controller.

23. The method of claim 13 further comprising operating in response to a request in one of:

a black screen configuration; and

a white screen configuration.

24. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

providing a user interface to user to drag and drop a plurality of icons representing a corresponding plurality of cameras onto the view; and

automatically arranging the video streams from the corresponding plurality of cameras in a plurality of windows.

25. The method of claim 13 further comprising generating a stream search request.

26. The method of claim 13 further comprising displaying digital signage.

27. The method of claim 13 further comprising displaying a plurality of steams in a carousel mode.

28. The method of claim 13, wherein the view comprises a View Data Structure including a layout;

and

the method further comprises managing the layout specified in the View Data Structure.

29. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon for processing data information, such that the instructions, when carried out by a processing device, enable the processing device to perform operations of:

configuring a network monitor appliance including naming the network monitor appliance;

registering the named network monitor appliance;

building a view for the named network monitor appliance;

activating a view on the named network monitor appliance;

receiving a video stream corresponding to the activated view;

applying a set of rules to the video stream to determine a display priority and configuration;

displaying the video stream in a view on at least one display monitor of the named network monitor appliance; and

including location information, time stamp and authenticity data in the at least one video stream.