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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    3.4.4 Changing the Camera Order in the List ... 3-22 3.4.5 Saving the Changes... 3-22 Global Settings... 3-23 Using Monitor Tool... 3-29 3.6.1 Connection of the Video Server / Network Camera Series... 3-29 3.6.2 The Layout ... 3-34 3.6.3 Input/Output Control Tools... 3-38 3.6.4 Backup ... 3-41 3.6.5 About...
  • Page 3 Chapter 4 Scheduling... 4-47 Invoke Scheduling Tool ... 4-48 4.1.1 Starting the Scheduling tool... 4-48 The Layout and Functionalities ... 4-49 4.2.1 Introduction... 4-49 4.2.2 The Functionalities of Configuration Components... 4-50 4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations ... 4-50 Primary Schedule ... 4-51 4.3.1 Schedule with Time Lines...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Installation

    Chapter 1 Installation Chapter 1 Installation 1.1 System Hardware Requirements Before installing the application software, make sure your system has the following recommended minimum hardware requirements. 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements The system requirement recommended for this application is as follows. MS Windows 2000/XP CPU: Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium IV or above and AMD Athlon or above...

  • Page 5: Software Installation

    Chapter 1 Installation 1.2 Software Installation The following are steps for the software installation. STEP 1: Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and installation should start automatically. If installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower left corner of your screen and open “My Computer”...
  • Page 6 Management & Control Software User’s Manual STEP 2: There are links on this page, including Quick Installation Guide, View User’s Manual, Release Note, and Install Software. Click on “Install Software” to launch the intallation shield. The InstallShield Wizard will come on and Figure 1-2 will appear. Figure 1-2 Welcome page for the Management &...
  • Page 7 Chapter 1 Installation STEP 4: Click on “Next”and the “User information” window will appear as in Figure 1-4. This window prompts you to enter a username, company name. Click on “Next” to continue. Figure 1-4 User information for Management & Control Software STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password as shown in Figure 1-5.
  • Page 8 Management & Control Software User’s Manual STEP 6: Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”, as shown in Figure 1-6. You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by clicking on “Browse…” Figure 1-6 Destination Location for Installation STEP 7: Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”, as shown in Figure 1-7.
  • Page 9 Chapter 1 Installation STEP 8: After checking all the set up information shown in Figure 1-8, click on “Next” to start file movement and registries update. Figure 1-8 Check Setup Information STEP 9: Click on “Finish”, as shown in Figure 1-9, to finish installation. This completes the program installation.

  • Page 10: First Start Up

    Management & Control Software User’s Manual 1.3 First Start up After installation, one of the IE settings needs to be changed before you can start running the Monitor program. Enable the mechanism for submitting non-encrypted data in the path “Start->Settings->control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level…\Setting:”. You can also find the path from the IE browser, as it is depicted in the following.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Launcher

    Chapter 2 Monitor Chapter 2 Launcher Launcher is a controller program that allows the user to invoke Monitor or Playback quickly. It also allows starting the recording before the user logs in. 2.1 Security for Launcher Starting Launcher does not require passing the username/password check. Once invoked, Launcher can run automatically.

  • Page 12: User Interface

    When the Launcher is locked, the unlock window is as follows: The input area of the dialog will be grayed (disabled) for 60 seconds after three failure attempts. 2.2 User Interface This is the user interface for Launcher: The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on the system tray. The popup menu is diplayed by clicking on the right or left buttons on the mouse.
  • Page 13 Chapter 2 Monitor Tools – This contains many utilities, currently only change password is implemented. Below is the change password screen: Figure 2-4 Change Password Dialog Autorun at Startup – This turns on or turns off Launcher’s auto start up state. Auto start up is to run Launcher right after Windows boot up.

  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Monitor

    Chapter 3 Monitor 3.1 Features of Monitor Tool In this section, we will depict all the features of the Monitor tool in this software. 3.1.1 Traditional Surveillance Features The traditional surveillance features include the following Real-time monitor PTZ control Recording 3.1.2 Special Features In our digital surveillance system, we support not only the features listed above but also the following features, making the system more powerful and convenient to use.

  • Page 15: Application Layout And Functionalities

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.2 Application Layout and Functionalities This section demonstrates a global view of the Monitor tool, as shown in Figure 3-1. Components of the Monitor tool in details are shown in the following sections. Misc. functions Layout area Hard disk status Common controls PTZ, DI/DO and Alert message...
  • Page 16 Alert Message This tool allows the display of the latest alert messages received from the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with the selected channel. Management & Control Software User’s Manual that supports PTZ functions.

  • Page 17: Logging In

    Video Server / Network Camera series product. You can change the settings of each selected Video Server / Network Camera in the remote site only if you have the root privilege of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product.

  • Page 18: Camera Configurations

    In this section, we discuss the local settings of the connection and the functional configurations of each camera. If you are interested in the remote settings for each camera, you can refer to each Video Server / Network Camera series product’s user’s manual that was shipped with the hardware.

  • Page 19: Local Settings

    Insert camera Delete camera Insert – This allows the user to insert a remote Video Server / Network Camera series product to the camera list. Click on the “Insert” button, an “Insert New Channel” dialog will pop up, as shown in Figure 3-5. Specify the IP address, port and root password of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product, and click on the “Ok”...
  • Page 20 Figure 3-6. Figure 3-5 Insert New Channel Dialog Delete – This removes the selected Video Server / Network Camera series product from the camera list. Figure 3-6 Adding a camera to the list Management & Control Software User’s Manual IP address and port The selected camera will be deleted.

  • Page 21: Alert Settings And Recording Settings

    Chapter 2 Monitor History – Clicking on the “History” button pops up a camera history list that shows the latest cameras that has been inserted into the camera list. The list could contain up to 16 entries. When you click on one of the cameras in the history list, the camera will be inserted into the camera list.
  • Page 22 Server / Network Camera series product is triggered. Digital input alert This option allows for defining the triggering criterion of the digital input of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. It can either be high-level triggered or low-level triggered. Recording Settings: Name If you want to specify your own location name, specify it in this field.

  • Page 23: Changing The Camera Order In The List

    “SAVE” button in each corresponding page in order to save the settings to the remote servers. There are different “SAVE” buttons for changing the settings of the local IP surveillance system and that of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product.

  • Page 24: Global Settings

    3.5 Global Settings After completing the connection for each remote Video Server / Network Camera series product, you will need to configure the global settings for all the connected servers. These include the video database directory, the usage of the hard disk, and options for video display.
  • Page 25 Chapter 2 Monitor Figure 3-11 Global Settings Window Directory Settings: Snapshot directory This is the directory for storing the snapshots in *.bmp format from channels as shown in Figure 3-11. Recording directory This is the directory for storing the recorded video data from remote channels Scheduler directory This is the directory for storing the default and user-customized plots for the recording schedule of each channel.
  • Page 26 NOTE: You must select the input signal format according to the camera type or CCD module type that is connected to the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. For remote Video Server / Network Camera series product with CMOS sensor, the input signal format needs to be set as PAL, regardless of the power line connected is 50 or 60 Hz.
  • Page 27 Chapter 2 Monitor the one assigned to the Visual Server / Network Camera series product in the Intranet. Check here to enable IP filter Enter IP address here to add IP address list Figure 3-12 Internet Proxy Settings Display Options: In the video displaying frame of each channel, there are two status bars associated with it.
  • Page 28 Location (channel number + Text on Video) Connection Time (Day:Hour:Min) Figure 3-13 Status on the Displaying Frame Backup Settings: In this setting, you can select the directory, maybe a remote hard disk, for the video database backup; as well as the backup size of your backup media. Backup Location Select: This window provides the settings for backup and the deletion of video database.
  • Page 29 Chapter 2 Monitor Figure 3-14 Account to Access Network Drive settings - – 3-28...

  • Page 30: Using Monitor Tool

    Camera Series Channel: Once you have connected a Video Server / Network Camera series product, you can drag and drop the camera to the video area. As for the channel area shown in Figure 3-15, if you have not set up the camera for the channel, the color of the channel number will be gray.
  • Page 31 Chapter 2 Monitor The red light indicates the connection to server has been unexpectedly disconnected, such as power outage, and Monitor is trying to reconnect to the server. Blink If the motion detection mechanism is set in the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product, the light corresponding to the channel will blink if a motion event is detected.
  • Page 32 3.6.1.1 Show the video of the specific channel This section depicts the method of showing the video of a specific channel in the dedicated displaying frame in the video area. Step 1: Move the mouse cursor to the channel number, as shown in Figure 3-16. Figure 3-16 Mouse Cursor on the Channel Number Step 2: Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor to the displaying frame in the video area, as shown in Figure 3-17.
  • Page 33 Chapter 2 Monitor Not droppable area Figure 3-17 Drag the Channel to the Displaying Frame Step 3: Move the mouse cursor to the area in which the selection can be dropped (in this case, it should be the video area), and then release the mouse button. In each layout, each channel is corresponding to one and only one displaying frame in the video area, as shown in Figure 3-18.
  • Page 34 no way to re-enable the automation. Cursor changed, video shown Empty video box Figure 3-18 Showing Video on the Displaying Frame 3.6.1.2 Close the channel in displaying frame This section discusses how to close the video change in the display frame. Step 1: Move the mouse cursor to the display frame associated with the channel you want to close.

  • Page 35: The Layout

    Chapter 2 Monitor disappear. These operations are shown in Figure 3-19. Move mouse cursor here, and then release the mouse button Figure 3-19 Close the Channel Note: Even the channel is closed for current layout. The network connection is still connected.
  • Page 36 1 camera layout 9 cameras layout Figure 3-20 Layout of the Monitor tool Double click on the video to switch to double size video Figure 3-21 Double-clicking on the Displaying frame Whether you choose the one-camera layout or the four-camera layout, the “Page up” and “Page down”...
  • Page 37 Chapter 2 Monitor Figure 3-22 One-camera Layout When you want to view one individual camera from the multi-camera layout shown in Figure 3-23, double-click on the display frame associated with the dedicated channel in the video area. You will see the size of the display frame is the same as the one-camera layout.
  • Page 38 Management & Control Software User’s Manual Back to previous layout Figure 3-23 Single View Mode When in Multi-camera Layout - – 3-37...

  • Page 39: Input/Output Control Tools

    Figure 3-24 Input/Output Control Tool This application software provides another three tools, shown in Figure 3-24 in the bottom-left corner, for controlling the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product of the associated channel. You can click on the dedicated buttons to switch to different control tools that include PTZ (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) control, DI/DO (Digital Input / Digital Output) control and Alert Message receiver.
  • Page 40 DI/DO control tool. Only user with root privilege can access the DI/DO control of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. In this application software, the color of the channel number indicates the status of the DI (Digital Input) of the channel.

  • Page 41: Alert Message

    When the color of the channel number is gray, that means this channel is not connected to any remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. The channel number turns red indicating the DI of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with the selected channel is in high level. Blue The channel number turns blue if the DI of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with the selected channel is in low level.

  • Page 42: Backup

    Visual Server / Network Camera series product, or change any local settings. You can cancel the backup process by simply clicking on the “Configuration Menu \ Cancel Backup”...

  • Page 43: Miscellaneous Functions

    Chapter 2 Monitor pops up a dialog box with information including product name, version, user information and serial number. 3.6.6 Miscellaneous Functions Quit Full Screen Figure 3-30 Miscellaneous functions This section describes other miscellaneous functions represented by small icons in this application software, as shown in Figure 3-30.

  • Page 44: Common Control Functions

    Full Screen Clicking on this button enlarges the selected channel to a full-screen display. To switch back to the original layout, press on the “ESC” key at the top-left corner of the keyboard, or double click on the mouse cursor on screen. Lock Clicking on this button to lock this program.
  • Page 45 Chapter 2 Monitor Volume Figure 3-31 Common Control Functions This section describes other Common control functions, respresented by small icons, as shown in Figure 3-31. These functions can only be applied to the focused channels. These functions are each described below. Volume Clicking on this button to adjust the audio volume when monitoring provided the camera supports audio.

  • Page 46: Multiple Focus

    Trashcan You can drap and drop the channel to the Trashcan. This does not close the video connection with the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. But the display for the channel in current layout will be removed.
  • Page 47 Chapter 2 Monitor Local time Current login user Local time shows the current time of the local site. Current login user shows the current login user’s name. Login time shows the time when user logged in. Status message bar shows messages on some background operations, such as repairing database or locations.

  • Page 48: Chapter 4 Scheduling

    The Scheduling tool helps the user to schedule the time to record the media stream of the selected channels from the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. With both the graphic user interface and time period selection options, you can easily schedule each channel.

  • Page 49: Invoke Scheduling Tool

    Chapter 5 Playback 4.1 Invoke Scheduling Tool This section describes how to invoke the Scheduling tool. 4.1.1 Starting the Scheduling tool Figure 4-1 Open Scheduler Tool Before starting the Scheduling tool, click on the “Configuration Menu \ Scheduler…” as shown in Figure 4-1, there must be at least one camera on the camera list.

  • Page 50: The Layout And Functionalities

    4.2 The Layout and Functionalities In this section, the layout and the functionalities of the Scheduling tool are depicted in detail. 4.2.1 Introduction Figure 4-2 shows the layout of the Scheduling tool’s components. Figure 4-2 Overview of the Scheduling Tool The layout is roughly divided into 4 parts: The first part of the Scheduling tool is the channel selection area.

  • Page 51: The Functionalities Of Configuration Components

    If the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product has been properly configured, the IP address and location of the selected channel will be shown. Please note that when you switch between channels in this selector, any editing and changes in the schedule scheme will be saved temporarily in system memory.

  • Page 52: Primary Schedule

    “Close” for handling the scheduling schemes. These are shown in Figure 4-4. Figure 4-4 Operations for the Schedule Scheme Manipulation Load… This button is used for loading other pre-edited schedule schemes from the specified directory. Note that you will need to save the current-edited settings before applying this function.
  • Page 53 Chapter 5 Playback time-line. You can make your own schedule scheme by plotting markers in all time-lines. These two time lines are associated with each other. That is, if you make changes in one time-line, the corresponding changes will be applied, in scale, to the other time-lines in the same schedule scheme.

  • Page 54: Schedule With Time Picker

    4.3.2 Schedule with Time Picker 4.3.2.1 Begin and End Time Hour picker Day picker Figure 4-8 Begin Time and End Time Selectors There are three controlling units in both “Begin Time” and “End Time” selectors, as shown in Figure 4-8. The first part of each of these two selectors is the Day Picker. You can select the day of the week with it and set the beginning time and the ending time for the recording interval.

  • Page 55: Schedule In Event Mode

    Chapter 5 Playback Period picker Figure 4-9 Period Picker, Apply button and Erase button 4.3.3 Schedule in event mode You can select to record in Event mode or Continuous mode by the Schedule mode selector as shown in Figure 4-10. There are two types of event recording, please refer to Section 4.3.3.1 and Section 4.3.3.2 for more information.

  • Page 56: Schedule In Continuous Mode

    high : Event will be triggered when the digital input is high. low : Event will be triggered when the digital input is low. rising : Event will be triggered if the digital input changes from low to high. falling : Event will be triggered if the digital input changes from high to low. 4.3.4 Schedule in Continuous mode Figure 4-10 shows that if you have selected the Continuous mode then it will record continuously according to the schedule set up by the user.

  • Page 57: Chapter 5 Playback

    Chapter 5 Playback Chapter 5 Playback 5.1 Features of Playback The Playback program of this application software is a very powerful yet convenient and user-friendly tool the user can use in browsing the recorded video database. It has two display modes (normal display mode and event preview mode) and three playback methods (full range, time period, and events preview).

  • Page 58: Logging In

    Output to printer directly Volume control System control tools: Lock Program System settings Minimize Miscellaneous tools: Location selector Alert window selector 5.2 Logging In The authentication mechanism is implemented in Launcher. If the user has passed authentication in Launcher, Playback can be invoked without further authentication. Otherwise, Authentication diglog of Launcher will pop up and the user must pass authentication in order to use Playback.

  • Page 59: Layout

    Chapter 5 Playback 5.3 Layout Display Area Histogram Area Status Area Figure 5-1 Playback Main Window Once you have successfully logged in to the Playback system, the main window appears at the top of the screen and the display resolution will be changed to 1024x768 automatically, if the current resolution is less (Figure 5-1).
  • Page 60 Management & Control Software User’s Manual Playback method Display adjustment tool Figure 5-2 Display By Time (Normal Display Mode) Frame Selection Indicator Page Control Figure 5-3 Display By Events (Event Display Mode) - – 5-59...

  • Page 61: Indicators

    Chapter 5 Playback 5.3.1.2 Histogram Area The Histogram is an interactive control. In the control, you can display events’ time domain location and the percentage of motion. You can also select a group of events or a specific period, from the Histogram Area. 5.3.1.3 Control Area The Control Area contains most of the control selections and toolboxes you need to browse the database, except Page Control.

  • Page 62: Pull Bar

    of the nine event preview frames. Once a frame has been selected, you can control the playing status using the jog dial in the control area. 5.3.3 Pull Bar The Pull Bar is a fast, flexible control for seeking specific data in the selected time period.
  • Page 63 Chapter 5 Playback will be stored in a sub-directory under the directory you have chosen here. Snapshot files location It sets the directory when you use the snapshot to export bitmap files. These exported bitmap files will be stored in a sub-directory under the directory you have chosen here.

  • Page 64: Normal (Single Frame) Mode

    compression methods in different computer installations. Modulation Mode: The modulation mode decides the on-screen video size. It depends on how the video sequence was recorded in the monitor program. If you have selected the wrong modulation mode, the displayed video will be distorted. To correct this, open the Settings dialog and change into the correct mode.

  • Page 65: Histogram Area

    Chapter 5 Playback Period Start Time Label Figure 5-6 Normal Display Mode Under the Normal display (single frame) mode, you can use all the tools the Playback program provides except the Page control. In this mode, the two labels under the Pull Bar show the individual starting and ending time of the interval (as shown in Figure 5-6).

  • Page 66: Preview (Multiple Frame) Mode

    color-inverted region by dragging your mouse cursor as you hold down the left mouse button (as shown in Figure 5-7). As you release the left button, the color-inverted region will replace the original time range as the new period the program displays.

  • Page 67: Histogram Area

    Chapter 5 Playback Displayed Event Number Histogram Area 5.6.1 Histogram Area The Histogram Area in the event Preview mode shows the event occuring time and the percentage of the detected motion with red bars. It also indicates the current displayed events with green bars and the selected event with blue bars. If you want to access the Histogram Area, you must change the area selection indicator to the Histogram Area.

  • Page 68: Histogram Legend

    the program is going to display. If you click on the left mouse button without holding down and dragging it, the display area will show the event page closest to the point you have selected. The dark regions means there is no video sequence existed in these intervals.

  • Page 69: Using Tools

    Chapter 5 Playback 5.7 Using Tools This section discusses the method of how to use the tools in the control area, as shown in Figure 5-1. 5.7.1 Selector Tools Figure 5-11 shows the Selector tools. These are: Location Selector, Period Start Time Selector for the selection of the beginning time, Period End Time Selector for the selection of the ending time, Playback Method Selector, and Alert Area Selector.

  • Page 70: Period Selector

    Figure 5-12 Time Interval Selection Dialog 5.7.1.2 Period Selector Period Selector provides you a precise way to choose the start time and the end time of a new period. The end time should be larger than the start time. After you have given the correct start and end times, clicking on the “Play”...

  • Page 71: Alert Area Selector

    Chapter 5 Playback you must first use the Playback Method Selector to change to the mode you want to use. Otherwise, the Period Selector will revert back to the previous period when you last changed the playback method. 5.7.1.4 Alert Area Selector In the Preview mode, the Playback program only shows one type of the alert events each time.

  • Page 72: Display Adjustment Toolbox

    Stop When you want to stop displaying the video sequence, you can click on the “Stop” button. Note that once you had pressed the “Stop” button, the start point will be reset to the beginning of the present period. Pause/Resume The “Pause”...

  • Page 73: Zoom Out

    Chapter 5 Playback 5.7.3.1 Zoom In Each time you click on the “Zoom In” button the image size in the display area will be magnified 12.5 percent of the original size. Due to the limitation of the display area size, the maximum zoom in ratio we support here is only 2.25:1 for NTSC modulation mode and 1.875:1 for PAL modulation mode.

  • Page 74: Toolbox

    5.7.4.1 Zoom In Each time you click on the “Zoom In” button in the Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox, the displayed time period will be half of the original time period until the period is equal to 10 seconds, the minimum. You can see the new interval in more details.
  • Page 75 Chapter 5 Playback 5.7.5.1 Transducer Using the Transducer tool, you can transpose the displaying video sequence to AVI file. Click on the “Transducer” button and the conversion procedure will start. The speed of exporting data depends on the speed of the computer’s processor.

  • Page 76: System Control Toolbox

    silent the system. Figure 5-17 Volume Control Dialog 5.7.6 System Control Toolbox The System Control Toolbox provides you some basic operations for the Playback program. Figure 5-18 shows the elements of the System Control Toolbox, i.e. “Lock Program”, “Settings”, “Minimize”, and “Exit”. Figure 5-18 System Control Toolbox 5.7.6.1 Lock Program If you are to be away from your computer, for security concerns, we suggest...
  • Page 77 Chapter 5 Playback button. You can invoke Playback again by clicking on the playback window on the task bar or choose Playback from the Launcher. 5.7.6.4 Exit The Playback program will close as you click on the “Exit” button. If the AVI exporting procedure is running, this procedure will be stopped first.

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