Camera Display Control Apparatus for Multi-Camera Event Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional monitoring systems fail to display detection events from one camera on the video feed of another camera, leading to potential oversight of detected events and inability to accurately identify their location.
Innovation Solution
A display control apparatus that receives detection notifications from one camera and obtains video from another camera, allowing it to display detection events on the video feed of the second camera, including the occurrence position, using a reception unit, image obtainment unit, and display control unit.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If detection is performed only by the currently selected camera, then the display system remains simple and straightforward, but detection events from other cameras cannot be displayed, leading to potential oversight of detected events
Solution Approach 1:
The display control apparatus is designed to handle multiple functions: it not only displays detection events from the currently selected camera but also receives and displays detection notifications from other cameras in the monitoring system. This multi-functionality ensures comprehensive detection event coverage while maintaining a unified display interface, resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.
2Ease of operation
If detection events are displayed only on the camera that detected them, then the display logic remains simple, but the user cannot easily check the location of detected events when viewing a different camera's video
Solution Approach 1:
The display control apparatus acts as an intermediary that receives detection notifications from one camera and superimposes them on the video feed of another camera. This mediator function allows detection events to be displayed on the currently displayed video regardless of which camera detected them, enabling easy location verification while maintaining complete event visibility.
3Reliability
If the system displays detection events from multiple cameras simultaneously, then complete detection coverage is achieved, but the display screen becomes cluttered and difficult to interpret
Solution Approach 1:
The display control apparatus applies local quality by superimposing detection event information directly on the relevant regions of the video feed. Detection events are displayed at their specific occurrence positions on the video, allowing users to easily locate and interpret events without cluttering the entire screen, thus maintaining both completeness and clarity.
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AI summary
A display control apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a detection notification indicating detection of an event by a first camera; an image obtainment unit configured to obtain a video from a second camera; and a display control unit configured to, in a case where the detection notification is received from the first camera that corresponds to detection of the event in which an occurrence position is included in the video from the second camera, display a predetermined image corresponding to the detection of the event together with the video from the second camera.