Video Management System Emulating Physical Cameras
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern video surveillance systems face challenges in supporting a variety of different hardware devices from multiple suppliers, each with its own drivers and interfaces, and require flexibility to adapt to changing demands and hardware capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A video management system that includes digital devices configured to emulate physical video cameras, allowing them to send video streams and metadata over a computer network, with an input interface for receiving video streams, a processing unit for storing and processing, and an output interface for sending streams to other devices, enabling customizable video processing and adaptation of video processing types through user-installed application programs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a video surveillance system supports a variety of different hardware devices from multiple suppliers with their own drivers and interfaces, then the system's versatility and adaptability improve, but the device complexity and difficulty of integration increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a video management system as an intermediary layer between diverse video cameras and the surveillance system. This mediator handles device-specific protocols and interfaces, translating them into a unified format. The system supports multiple hardware suppliers by incorporating their specific drivers and interface handlers within the video management system, allowing versatile hardware support without increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The video management system is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple types of video cameras from different suppliers through a single unified interface. It implements multiple interface adapters and protocol handlers that enable one system to work with various hardware devices, achieving multi-functionality without requiring separate systems for each device type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the video surveillance system is designed to be versatile and adapt to different application demands, then the adaptability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The video management system implements dynamic configuration capabilities that allow it to adapt to different application demands in real-time. The system can dynamically load appropriate interface handlers, adjust processing parameters, and reconfigure video streams based on the specific application requirements, providing adaptability without requiring a completely different system for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into modular components including interface adapters, video processing modules, and application-specific handlers. This segmentation allows different parts of the system to be independently configured and activated based on application needs, reducing the effective complexity for each specific application while maintaining overall versatility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If digital devices emulate physical video cameras to provide flexible video processing, then the adaptability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses digital devices that emulate physical video cameras by creating virtual camera interfaces that replicate the functionality of physical devices. These emulated cameras can be configured to provide customized video processing capabilities without requiring physical hardware changes. The emulation layer copies the essential interface behavior of physical cameras while adding flexible processing capabilities.
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AI summary
A video surveillance system comprising a video management system and one or more digital devices, each of the one or more digital devices being configured to emulate at least one physical video camera, and to send video streams and/or video metadata via a computer network to a video-receiving system, wherein the video management system comprises: an input interface for receiving one or more video streams from one or more video cameras and/or other video sources, a processing unit configured to receive one or more input video streams from the input interface, each input video stream corresponding to one of the received video streams, and to store the input video streams in a video repository, and an output interface configured to send, via a computer network, one or more of the input video streams and/or one or more of the stored video streams to one or more of the digital devices.