Image monitoring system and image monitoring program

• US 9,979,879 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Avellino, Joseph E
• Assistant Examiner(s): McLeod, Marshall
• Application Number:
  US14/951,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20160080640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: 348143
• 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: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0806 the signals being two or more video signals H04N7/0803, H04N7/081 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image monitoring system including: a camera connected to a network; display means for displaying an image captured by the camera; and display control means for controlling display such that, in displaying images by the display means, an image is displayed in a window having a predetermined layout; wherein the display control means presets an allocation database containing a correlation between the window having a predetermined layout and a camera identification code and, when the camera is connected to the network, automatically sets a correlation between the camera identification code in the allocation database and the camera, thereby controlling image display into the window on the basis of the allocation database.

Claims

1. An image monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of cameras connected to a network;

a display configured to display images captured by the cameras; and

processor circuitry configured to control a display to display at least one of the images in at least one of a first layout and a second layout;

wherein, in the first layout, one of the images is allocated to a first position based on first correlation information between the first position in the first layout and an identification information relating camera information, the first correlation information being automatically set without an operation by a user; and

wherein, in the second layout, the one of the images is allocated to a second position based on second correlation information between the second position in the second layout and the identification information relating camera information, the second correlation information being set in response to a customization of a position of the one of the images by the user.

2. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the processor circuitry configured to control the display to display a list of the plurality of cameras and the at least one of the images in a single screen.

3. The image monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the processor circuitry configured to control the display to display an icon for displaying at least one of the images on a full screen.

4. The image monitoring system according to claim 3, wherein the processor circuitry configured to control the display to display an icon for selecting a layout which has two or more windows.

5. The image monitoring system according to claim 4, wherein the processor circuitry configured to control the display to display an icon for switching contents to be displayed on an entire screen.

6. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the first correlation information is automatically set when the cameras are connected to the network.

7. The image monitoring system according to claim 1,

wherein the second layout has a first window and a second window for displaying the images, and

wherein a size of the first window is different from a size of the second window.

8. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data storage configured to store images supplied from the cameras.

9. The image monitoring system according to claim 8,

wherein the processor circuitry is configured to reproduce the images stored in the data storage.

10. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein

the processor circuitry is configured to receive an input by the user for controlling at least one of panning, tilt, and zoom of the cameras.

11. The image monitoring system according to claim 1 wherein,

the processor circuitry is configured to control the display to display moving information.

12. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of the first layout and the second layout is comprised of four windows displayed as two windows by two windows.

13. The image monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein

when the processor circuitry receives a command for displaying a selected image captured by a selected camera and a number of display layouts corresponding to the selected image is two or more, the processor circuitry controls the display to display a list of all the selectable display layouts for the selected image.

14. An image monitoring apparatus comprising:

processor circuitry configured to control a display to display at least one of images captured by a plurality of cameras in a window having at least one of a first layout and a second layout;

wherein, in the first layout, one of the images is allocated to a first position based on first correlation information between the first position in the first layout and an identification information relating camera information, the first correlation information being automatically set without an operation by a user; and

wherein, in the second layout, the one of the images is allocated to a second position based on second correlation information between the second position in the second layout and the identification information relating camera information, the second correlation information being set in response to a customization of a position of the one of the images by the user.

15. A method of monitoring an image comprising the steps of:

connecting a plurality of cameras to a network;

displaying images captured by the cameras; and

controlling a display to display at least one of the images in at least one of a first layout and a second layout;

wherein, in the first layout, allocating one of the images to a first position based on first correlation information between the first position in the first layout and an identification information relating camera information, the first correlation information being automatically set without an operation by a user; and

wherein, in the second layout, allocating the one of the images to a second position based on second correlation information between the second position in the second layout and the identification information relating camera information, the second correlation information being set in response to a customization of a position of the one of the images by the user.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium controlling a computer for an image monitoring system comprising the steps of:

connecting a plurality of cameras to a network;

displaying images captured by the cameras; and

controlling a display to display at least one of the images in at least one of a first layout and a second layout;

wherein, in the first layout, allocating one of the images to a first position based on first correlation information between the first position in the first layout and an identification information relating camera information, the first correlation information being automatically set without an operation by a user; and

wherein, in the second layout, allocating the one of the images to a second position based on second correlation information between the second position in the second layout and the identification information relating camera information, the second correlation information being set in response to a customization of a position of the one of the images by the user.