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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Installation....................1-5 System Hardware Requirements...............1-5 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements ....1-5 Software Installation .................1-6 First Start up....................1-11 Chapter 2 Launcher ....................2-12 Security for Launcher ................2-12 User Interface..................2-13 Chapter 3 Monitor ....................3-15 Features of Monitor Tool ................3-15 3.1.1 Traditional Surveillance Features ..........3-15 3.1.2 Special Features ................3-15 Application Layout and Functionalities..........3-16...
  • Page 3 Chapter 1 Installation 4.2.1 Introduction..................4-51 4.2.2 The Functionalities of Configuration Components......4-52 4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations ..........4-53 Primary Schedule ..................4-54 4.3.1 Schedule with Time Lines..............4-54 4.3.2 Schedule with Time Picker ............4-55 4.3.3 Schedule in event mode ..............4-56 4.3.4 Schedule in Continuous mode ............4-57 Secondary Schedule ................4-57 4.4.1 Schedule modes ................4-57 Chapter 5 Playback....................5-58...

  • Page 4: 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/98SE/Me CPU: Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium IV or above and AMD Athlon or above SDRAM:...

  • 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 STEP 2: There are links on this page, including Quick Guide, User’s Manual, Release Note, and Install Software DVR. Click on “Install Software DVR” to launch the intallation shield. The InstallShield Wizard will come on and Figure 1-2 will appear. Figure 1-2 Welcome page for the Smart VS-IP Recorder STEP 3: If you click on “Next”...
  • 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 Smart VS-IP Recorder STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password as shown in Figure 1-5.
  • Page 8 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

    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. You can follow the instructions to complete this setting, as shown in Figure 1-10.

  • 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: Figure 2-2 Unlock Dialog 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: Figure 2-3 Popup Menu The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on the system tray.
  • 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 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. Video area Misc. functions Channel area Layout area Display frame...
  • Page 16 This area displays the status of each channel. The information indicates the status of connection, recording, selection, and alert-event triggered. Video area In this area, you can see the video of the selected channel in the display frame. The number of display frames in the video area depends on the layout chosen by the user.

  • Page 17: Logging In

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.3 Logging In The authentication mechanism is implemented in Launcher. If user has already passed the authentication in Launcher, Monitor can be invoked without further authentication. If not, the Authentication of Launcher will be popped up and user must pass it to get Monitor shows up.

  • Page 18: Camera Configurations

    3.4 Camera Configurations When you log in for the first time, you need to configure this application software to connect to the remote Video Server / Network Camera series products in “Configuration Menu \ Camera Configuration”, as shown in Figure 3-2. You must have the root (administrator) privilege in order to run the configuration.

  • Page 19: Local Settings

    Chapter 2 Monitor Local settings Setup page Camera selections Remote setting webpage Figure 3-3 Layouts of Camera Configurations 3.4.2 Local Settings In the local settings, as shown in Figure 3-4, there are three main functionalities: History Insert camera Delete camera Figure 3-4 Local Settings Insert –...
  • Page 20 list. IP address and port Figure 3-5 Insert New Channel Dialog Delete – This removes the selected Video Server / Network Camera series product from the camera list. The selected camera will be deleted. Figure 3-6 Adding a camera to the list...

  • 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 channel. Enable dig ital input － This function is similar with tha t of “Enable Motion Detect”. Selecting this option will activate the alert sound when the digital input of the remote Vide Server / Network Camera series product is triggered. Digital input alert －...

  • Page 23: Changing The Camera Order In The List

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.4.4 Changing the Camera Order in the List ou can use “drag and drop” in the grid area of the camera list to change the sequence of the connected Video Server / Network Camera series products, as shown in Figure 3-9.

  • Page 24: Global Settings

    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. 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.
  • Page 25 Chapter 2 Monitor Backup status information 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 －...
  • Page 26 Record Diskspace Usage Settings: Cycle Recording － When this setting is turned on, the video database system will overwrite the oldest data if the usage of the current database has reached its storage limitation. In other words, it will record video data circularly. If this setting is not selected, i.e.
  • Page 27 Chapter 2 Monitor You can set the proxy server and the IP filter by clicking on the “Internet Settings” button. This setting is helpful for connecting Visual Server / Network Camera series product in the Intranet while the proxy server is in use at the same time. You can enable or disable the usage of the proxy server by the check box shown in Figure 3-12.
  • Page 28 Location (channel number + Text on Video) Remote Time Connection Time (Day:Hour:Min) Recording Time (Day:Hour:Min) Figure 3-13 Status on the Displaying Frame Miscellaneous: Click on image to enable PTZ － Enable this option can let you control PTZ by clicking on displaying frame. If this option is enabled, the cursor icon will be changed when cursor moving into a displaying frame which associates with a PTZ-enabled Video Server / Network Camera series product, as shown in Figure 3-14.
  • Page 29 Chapter 2 Monitor Backup Location Select: This window provides the settings for backup and the deletion of video database. You can select the check box to direct which channels need to be backed up. You can also click the “Delete” button on the right to delete the video database corresponding to the selected channel.

  • Page 30: Using Monitor Tool

    3.6 Using Monitor Tool This section depicts methods of manipulating the Monitor tool. 3.6.1 Connection of the Video Server / Network 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 3-16, 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 3-17. Channel number Mouse cursor Displaying frame...
  • Page 33 Chapter 2 Monitor Droppable area Not droppable area Figure 3-18 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 3-19.
  • Page 34 no way to re-enable the automation. Figure 3-19 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 d isplay frame. tep 1: Move the mouse cursor to the display frame associated with the channel you want to close.

  • Page 35: The Layout

    Chapter 2 Monitor Figure 3-20 Close the Channel Note: Even the channel is closed for current layout. The network connection is still connected. The reason to keep the connection is that if the connection is closed, it is not possible for Monitor to judge if any event is triggered. 3.6.2 The Layout There are six kinds of layouts shown in Figure 3-21 for displaying frames in the Monitor tool.
  • Page 36 4 cameras layout 1 camera layout 6 cameras layout 16 cameras layout 9 cameras layout 13 cameras layout Figure 3-21 Layout of the Monitor tool Whether you choose the one-camera layout or the four-camera layout, the “Page up” and “Page down” buttons will be shown in the bottom-left corner of the video area. You can use these two buttons to switch the pages, as shown in Figure 3-22.
  • Page 37 Chapter 2 Monitor When you want to view one individual camera from the multi-camera layout shown in Figure 3-24, 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 Back to previous layout Figure 3-24 Single View Mode When in Multi-camera Layout...

  • Page 39: Input/Output Control Tools

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.6.3 Input/Output Control Tools Alert Message PTZ Control Digital Input / Digital Output Figure 3-25 Input/Output Control Tool This application software provides another three tools, shown in Figure 3-25 in the bottom-left corner, for controlling the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product of the associated channel.
  • Page 40 Return to Home Tilt up Pan left Pan right Zoom out Tilt down Auto focus Zoom in Focus far Focus near Auto patrol Auto pan Stop Auto pan or Go to the preset location Auto patrol Figure 3-26 PTZ Control 3.6.3.2 DI/DO Control After clicking on the “DI/DO”...

  • Page 41: Alert Message

    Chapter 2 Monitor The color of the DI status is depicted as follows. 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.

  • Page 42: Backup

    “time”=>”alert type” #”channel number”(“win1”,”win2”,”win3”) The message “02:41:00=>MO #1(0,1,1)” means that this was a motion detection alert occurred at 02:41:00 AM in Motion Window 2 and Motion Window 3. The message “14:41:56=>DI #1” means there was an alert triggered by the first DI at 02:41:56 PM.

  • Page 43: About

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.6.5 About Clicking on the menu “Configuration Menu \ About…” as shown in Figure 3-30, pops up a dialog box with information including product name, version, user information and serial number. Figure 3-30 About 3.6.6 Miscellaneous Functions Configuration Menu Minimize Quit...
  • Page 44 Minimization Clicking on this button minimizes the Monitor application. 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.

  • Page 45: Common Control Functions

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.6.7 Common Control Functions Volume Stop Record Trashcan Record Snapshot Printer Figure 3-32 Common Control Functions This section describes other Common control functions, respresented by small icons, as shown in Figure 3-32. These functions can only be applied to the focused channels.

  • Page 46: Multiple Focus

    Snapshot This function is to take a snapshot of the selected channels in the current layout, and save the pictures as bitmap files to the hard disk. You can pre-set the directory in which these bitmap files are stored in “Configuration menu \ Global Settings”. Please refer to Section 3.5 for details.

  • Page 47: Status Bar

    Chapter 2 Monitor 3.6.9 Status Bar Local time Status message bar Software name Software version Login time Current login user Figure 3-33 Status Bar Local time －shows the current time of the local site. Current login user － shows the current login user’s name. Login time －...

  • Page 48: Chapter 4 Scheduling

    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 Schedule 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

    Chapter 5 Playback The third part is the Secondary schedule, which consists of event mode settings. The fourth part contains operation buttons for the user to fine tune the edited schedule-scheme of the selected channel, and close the Scheduling tool window. These four parts will later be described in detail.

  • Page 52: The Schedule Scheme Operations

    4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations There are six related buttons, “Load…”, “Undo”, “Clear”, “Save”, “Save as…” and “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.

  • Page 53: Primary Schedule

    Chapter 5 Playback 4.3 Primary Schedule 4.3.1 Schedule with Time Lines There are two time-lines of different scales: hour unit time-line and week unit 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

    Figure 4-7 Hour time-line 4.3.1.4 Marking/Unmarking the Recording Time You only need one click on the left mouse button to mark the time on this time-line. The operating method for the hour time-line is the same as that of the week time-lines.

  • Page 55: Schedule In Event Mode

    Chapter 5 Playback time interval that associates with the beginning and end time. After having the settings in “Begin Time”, “End Time” and “Period Picker” done, click on the “Apply” button to confirm the settings. Click on the “Erase” button to clear all scheduling information just entered.

  • Page 56: Schedule In Continuous Mode

    Figure 4-12 shows the four digital input conditions. Select the triggering condition that you would like to start recording. 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.

  • 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 Area Selection Indicator Display Area Control Area Pull Bar 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 Playback method Display adjustment Figure 5-2 Display By Time (Normal Display Mode)
  • Page 61 Chapter 5 Playback Frame Selection Indicator Page Control Figure 5-3 Display By Events (Event Display Mode)

  • Page 62: Indicators

    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 63: Pull Bar

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 64 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. Figure 5-5 Settings Dialog AVI Compression Mode We use only 24 bits color depth to export the AVI file in this mode.

  • Page 65: Normal (Single Frame) Mode

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 66: Histogram Area

    Period Start Time Label Period End Time Label Histogram Area 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 Fig5-6.

  • Page 67: Preview (Multiple Frame) Mode

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 68: Histogram Area

    Page Up Page Status Displayed Event Number Page Down Histogram Area Total Event Count Figure 5-8 Preview Mode 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.

  • Page 69: Histogram Legend

    Chapter 5 Playback As you release the left mouse button, the color-inverted region will be enlarged to fill the entire histogram area. This color-inverted region will become the new period 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.

  • Page 70: Using Tools

    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 71: Period Selector

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 72: Play Control

    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 73: Display Adjustment Toolbox

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 74: Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox

    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 75: Toolbox

    Chapter 5 Playback 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 76 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. During any time of the exporting interval, you can click on the “Transducer”...

  • Page 77: System Control Toolbox

    Chapter 5 Playback 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”.
  • Page 78 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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