Video Stream Tile Navigation Without Obscuring Surveillance Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
The spatial constraints of displaying multiple video streams on a graphical user interface result in navigation controls obscuring important video stream details, hindering effective surveillance monitoring.
Innovation Solution
Navigation controls are displayed to overlap an adjacent video stream tile instead of the video stream of interest, allowing the video stream to remain visible while enabling control functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If navigation controls are displayed over the video stream of interest, then user control functionality is enabled, but important details in the video stream are obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation controls are extracted from the video stream of interest and relocated to the adjacent video stream tile. This separation allows the controls to be displayed without obscuring the video details, as they now occupy space in a different tile rather than overlapping the video content.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation controls are moved from a two-dimensional overlay position (directly on top of the video stream) to an alternative spatial dimension (the adjacent video stream tile). This dimensional relocation resolves the conflict between control visibility and video detail preservation.
2Productivity
If multiple video streams are displayed in tile format, then concurrent monitoring capability is improved, but spatial constraints reduce video resolution and control visibility
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation controls for one video stream are merged with the display area of an adjacent video stream tile. This combining of control elements with the adjacent tile's space allows multiple video streams to be displayed at higher resolutions without sacrificing control functionality, as the controls share space with the neighboring video feed rather than reducing the main video's display area.
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AI summary
A method for display of video stream navigation controls and video stream tiles on a graphical user interface; it includes rendering, on a display device of a computing device, a graphical user interface with two or more video stream tiles, each of the two or more video stream tiles adapted to display a video stream comprising a plurality of image frames; receiving, at the computing device, input for selecting a first video stream tile of the two or more video stream tiles, the first video stream tile having displayed therein a first video stream; and displaying navigation controls for controlling the display of the first video stream of the first video stream tile.