Network security system and method thereof

• US 10,306,185 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2014
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hanwha Vision Company Limited (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd. (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Sung Bong, Shin, Jae Young, Kim, Hyun Ho, Kim, Kyung Duk, Kang, Jeong Koo, Son, Myung Hwa, Hong, Hae Yoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Owens, Tsion B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brumfield, Shanika M
• Application Number:
  US14/458,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20150288930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,749 Days
• Field of Search: 348143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Provided is a network security system including: a spatial information collector configured to acquire, from a manager input terminal, spatial information; a device position receiver configured to receive, from the manager terminal, at least one device installation position with respect to the spatial information and storing the at least one device installation position; a device recommender configured to provide a candidate device list corresponding to the at least one device installation position; a device determiner configured to receive a signal for selecting at least one device from the candidate device list, and determine a model of the at least one selected device to be installed at the at least one device installation position; and a device setter configured to set a setting of the at least one selected device.

Claims

1. A network security system comprising one or more processors implementing:

a spatial information collector configured to acquire spatial information about a space where the network security system is to be installed;

a diagram generator configured to generate a user interface, the user interface comprising at least three separate windows of a spatial information window, a device selection window, and a device list window, the spatial information window displaying the spatial information, the device selection window displaying a plurality of devices, and the device list window displaying a plurality of models of a given device;

a device position receiver configured to receive a selection of a device among the plurality of devices in the device selection window, and receive at least one device installation position in the spatial information window, the at least one device installation position being a position at which the selected device is to be installed;

a device recommender configured to, in response to receiving the selection of the device and the at least one device installation position, automatically display in the device list window, a list of candidate models of the selected device, the candidate models being determined based on a characteristic of the at least one device installation position;

a device determiner configured to receive a selection of a model from the list of candidate models in the device list window; and

a device setter configured to automatically determine an initial setting of the selected model in response to receiving the selection of the model from the list of candidate models, prior to installment of the device at the at least one device installation position,

wherein the device position receiver is further configured to receive information of other devices, of the network security system, to be connected to the device at the at least one device installation position, the initial setting being determined based on the at least one device installation position and characteristics of the device and the other devices, of the network security system, to be connected to the device, and

wherein, when the device determiner receives the selection of the model from the list of candidate models in the device list window without designating the at least one device installation position, the spatial information window displays the at least one device installation position corresponding to the selected model.

2. The network security system of claim 1,

wherein the device corresponding to the selected model is one of a camera, a recorder, a monitoring device, and a central management device.

3. The network security system of claim 2, wherein the list of candidate models comprises all models of corresponding devices that are stored in a database.

4. The network security system of claim 1, wherein the device setter is further configured to set at least one of an image profile, capacity, bandwidth, and network according to the initial setting of the device.

5. The network security system of claim 4, wherein in response to the device corresponding to the selected model being a camera, the device setter is further configured to set the image profile by setting a resolution, a bitrate, and a frame rate of the camera.

6. The network security system of claim 4, wherein in response to the device corresponding to the selected model being a recorder or a monitoring device, the device setter is further configured to set the capacity by setting a number of hard disks and capacity of the recorder or the monitoring device.

7. The network security system of claim 4, wherein in response to the device corresponding to the selected model being a network, the device setter is further configured to set a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), a static Internet protocol (IP), and a dynamic domain name service (DDNS) of the network.

8. The network security system of claim 4, wherein in response to the device corresponding to the selected model being a network or a network switch, the device setter is further configured to set the bandwidth between devices connected to each other.

9. The network security system of claim 1, wherein the device recommender is further configured to provide the list of candidate models in descending order of a degree of matching between the candidate models and the at least one device installation position.

10. The network security system of claim 9, wherein the device recommender is configured to obtain the degree of matching by determining whether each of the candidate models is suitable for the at least one device installation position in consideration of the characteristic of the at least one device installation position.

11. The network security system of claim 1, wherein the device setter is further configured to change the initial setting of the device corresponding to the selected model based on an external input.

12. The network security system of claim 1, wherein at least two device installation positions are present with respect to at least one device which has at least one model.

13. The network security system of claim 1, wherein the device setter automatically determines a low resolution of the device in response to a low resolution of another device, of the network security system, to be connected to the device.

14. The network security system of claim 13, wherein the device is a camera and the another device is a recorder, and the device setter automatically determines a low resolution of the camera based on a low-resolution recording capacity of the recorder.

15. A network security method comprising:

acquiring spatial information about a space where a network security system is to be installed;

generating a user interface, the user interface comprising at least three separate windows of a spatial information window, a device selection window, and a device list window, the spatial information window displaying the spatial information and the device selection window displaying a plurality of devices;

receiving a selection of a device among the plurality of devices in the device selection window;

receiving at least one device installation position in the spatial information window, the at least one device installation position being a position at which the selected device is to be installed;

in response to receiving the selection of the device and the at least one device installation position, automatically displaying in the device list window, a list of candidate models of the selected device, the candidate models being determined based on a characteristic of the at least one device installation position;

receiving a selection of a model from the list of candidate models; and

automatically determining an initial setting of the selected model in response to receiving the selection of the model from the list of candidate models, prior to installment of the device at the at least one device installation position,

wherein the network security method further comprises receiving information of other devices, of the network security system, to be connected to the device at the at least one device installation position, the initial setting being determined based on the at least one device installation position and characteristics of the device and the other devices, of the network security system, to be connected to the device, and

wherein, when the selection of the model is received from the list of candidate models in the device list window without designating the at least one device installation position, the spatial information window displays the at least one device installation position corresponding to the selected model.

16. The network security method of claim 15,

wherein the device corresponding to the selected model is one of a camera, a recorder, a monitoring device, and a central management device, and

wherein the network security method further comprises setting at least one of an image profile, capacity, bandwidth, and network according to the initial setting of the device.

17. The network security method of claim 16, wherein the image profile includes at least one of a resolution, a bitrate, and a frame rate.

18. A network security method comprising:

acquiring spatial information about a space where a security system is to be installed;

generating a user interface, the user interface comprising at least three separate windows of a spatial information window, a device selection window, and a device list window, the spatial information window displaying the spatial information and the device selection window displaying a plurality of devices;

receiving a selection of a device among the plurality of devices in the device selection window;

receiving at least one device installation position in the spatial information window, the at least one device installation position being a position at which the selected device is to be installed;

in response to receiving the selection of the device and the at least one device installation position, automatically displaying in the device list window, a list of candidate models of the selected device, the candidate models being determined based on a characteristic of the at least one device installation position;

receiving a selection of a model from the list of candidate models; and

automatically determining an initial setting of the selected model in response to receiving the selection of the model from the list of candidate models, prior to installment of the device at the at least one device installation position, the initial setting being determined based on the characteristic of the at least one device installation position,

wherein, when the selection of the model is received from the list of candidate models in the device list window without designating the at least one device installation position, the spatial information window displays the at least one device installation position corresponding to the selected model.

19. The network security method of claim 18, wherein the automatically configuring the setting of the device comprises automatically configuring the setting of the device based on the at least one device installation position and characteristics of the device and other devices, of the security system, to be connected to the device.

20. The network security method of claim 18, wherein the device corresponding to the selected model is one of a camera, a recorder, a monitoring device, and a central management device.

21. The network security method of claim 18, wherein the network security method further comprises setting at least one of an image profile, capacity, bandwidth, and network according to the setting of the device.

22. The network security method of claim 21, wherein the image profile comprises at least one of a resolution, a bitrate, and a frame rate of the device.