Camera Profile Setting System for Multi-Channel Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current camera and management apparatus settings are complex and not user-friendly, particularly in multi-profile network transmission scenarios where multiple users need to access and manage different video profiles across various channels, leading to difficulties in configuring and managing profiles efficiently.

Innovation Solution

A setting system and method that provides a user interface for easily setting and managing camera profiles across multiple channels, allowing for the recommendation, editing, and copying of multi-profiles, as well as identifying and adjusting non-supported profiles, to ensure seamless video transmission and management across different channels and devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual configuration of camera profiles is used, then profile customization is possible, but setting complexity increases and user-friendliness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprofile customizationVSAvoidsetting complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates candidate profile sets by pre-configuring compatible camera and management apparatus profiles before user selection, eliminating the need for users to manually configure each profile from scratch while maintaining customization options

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system copies existing profile configurations between channels and devices, allowing users to reuse proven profile sets across multiple contexts, thereby reducing setting complexity while preserving adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If individual profile configuration per channel is performed, then channel-specific optimization is achieved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel-specific optimizationVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system copies candidate profile sets from one channel to other channels, allowing rapid deployment of optimized profiles across multiple channels while maintaining the ability to adjust channel-specific parameters when needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-configures candidate profile sets that are compatible with specific camera models, allowing users to select and apply pre-optimized profiles rather than configuring each channel individually from scratch

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive profile options are provided, then profile compatibility improves, but user interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprofile compatibilityVSAvoiduser interface simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments profile configuration into two distinct parts: automatically generated candidate profile sets that ensure compatibility, and user-selectable options that maintain simplicity, allowing comprehensive functionality without overwhelming the user interface

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary layer that automatically matches camera capabilities with management apparatus requirements, generating compatible profile sets without exposing users to the underlying complexity of profile parameters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11095810B2Setting system for a camera and control method thereof
Publication Date: 2021.08.17 HANWHA VISION CO LTD
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AI summary

A setting apparatus for controlling setting profiles of a camera, the apparatus includes a storage, a display, and a processor to provide a user interface on the display having first region for setting a multi-profile of a camera registered on each of a plurality of channels and a second region for setting a reception profile of a management apparatus connected to the camera on each of the plurality of channels; recommend a candidate profile set settable to a camera registered on a first channel, to a first region of the first channel, and set a multi-profile for the camera registered on the first channel; and provide a multi-profile of the first channel to a first region of at least one other channel as a candidate profile set of a camera registered on the at least one other channel that is different from the first channel.