Unified Access Permission Data for Monitoring Camera Video Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing monitoring camera systems face inefficiencies in sharing video data across multiple cameras due to the need for precise connection information and administrator errors in setting access rights, leading to difficulties in efficiently sharing image data between external terminals.

Innovation Solution

A monitoring camera video sharing system and method that includes user terminals and a server storing access permission data with user and camera information, allowing for the updating of access rights and enabling efficient data sharing by linking video data to specified user permissions, facilitating access through user terminals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If connection information is required for each monitoring camera to acquire video data, then access control precision is improved, but system complexity and error probability increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess control precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges access rights for multiple monitoring cameras into a single access permission data structure. Instead of managing separate connection information for each camera, the system combines all camera access permissions into one unified data set that can be shared among user terminals, reducing system complexity while maintaining access control precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The access permission data is designed to be universal, allowing a single data structure to grant access rights across multiple monitoring cameras simultaneously. This multi-functional approach enables one access permission record to serve multiple cameras, eliminating the need for separate connection information management for each camera

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If administrator sets access rights for each monitoring camera individually, then access control accuracy is improved, but time consumption and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess control accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring access permission data that includes access rights for multiple monitoring cameras in advance. When a user terminal needs access, the pre-configured permission data is directly applied without requiring administrators to individually set rights for each camera at the moment of access, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining access control accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The access permission system enables self-service functionality where user terminals can automatically obtain and use access permission data for multiple cameras without requiring manual administrator intervention for each camera. The system serves itself by automatically managing and distributing access permissions based on pre-configured rules

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If separate connection information is required for each monitoring camera, then access security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess securityVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple camera access permissions into a single access permission data structure that maintains security while simplifying operations. User terminals obtain one unified access permission record that grants secure access to multiple cameras, eliminating the need for operators to manage separate connection information for each camera

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12088965B2Monitoring camera video sharing system and monitoring camera video sharing method
Publication Date: 2024.09.10 PANASONIC I PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO LTD
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AI summary

A monitoring camera video sharing system includes a user terminal for viewing of video data of a monitoring camera, and a server for storing access permission data including first user information and monitoring camera information. The first user information includes an access right to the video data of the monitoring camera, and the monitoring camera information indicates information of the monitoring camera. The server updates the access permission data by adding an access right to the video data of the selected monitoring camera to second user information based on sharing processing of the access permission data to the second user information, and sets the video data of the selected monitoring camera linked to the access permission data and specified by the monitoring camera information such that the video data of the selected monitoring camera is accessible by the user terminal based on the second user information.