PTZ Camera Position Restoration for Surveillance Scenarios
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional security systems, particularly those incorporating pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras, face difficulties in maintaining consistent surveillance views due to random changes in PTZ positions during normal operations, requiring significant time for operators to adjust settings to achieve desired surveillance views when recalling saved scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A security system that saves and recalls PTZ positions of PTZ cameras along with a scenario name, ensuring that when a scenario is played, each PTZ camera returns to its preset positions, maintaining the exact view as when the scenario was saved, thereby allowing for seamless recall and adjustment of surveillance layouts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If PTZ cameras are used to provide flexible surveillance coverage, then the surveillance capability and adaptability are improved, but the complexity of maintaining consistent views across scenario switches increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically restoring PTZ camera positions, pan-tilt settings, and window layout configurations when a surveillance scenario is activated. This eliminates the need for operators to manually adjust each camera and display element, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining high adaptability across different surveillance scenarios.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple surveillance scenarios are saved with different camera positions, then the versatility of the system is improved, but the time required to recall and setup scenarios increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary restoration of all camera positions, display window layouts, and surveillance parameters automatically when a scenario is recalled. This preliminary action eliminates manual setup time and allows operators to switch between multiple surveillance scenarios instantly, maintaining both scenario flexibility and operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and stores copies of complete surveillance scenario configurations including PTZ positions, window arrangements, and camera selections. When a scenario is recalled, the system copies these pre-saved configurations and applies them automatically, eliminating manual reconfiguration and reducing scenario setup time to near-zero.
3Measurement precision
If manual adjustment of PTZ positions is required for each scenario, then the precision of surveillance views is improved, but the operator effort and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically restoring PTZ camera positions, display window layouts, and surveillance parameters when a scenario is activated. This eliminates the need for operator intervention in manual adjustments, thereby maintaining precise surveillance views while significantly reducing operator effort and time consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras, each of the plurality of PTZ cameras having a respective field of view that covers a respective portion of a secured geographic area, a memory that saves a plurality of surveillance scenarios, each of the plurality of surveillance scenarios including a respective pan, tilt, and a zoom position for each of the plurality of PTZ cameras, and a user interface that receives a selection of one of the plurality of surveillance scenarios from a human user and, in response, simultaneously displays respective real time video images from each of the plurality of PTZ cameras using the respective pan, tilt, and zoom positions of the one of the plurality of surveillance scenarios.