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Chapter 3
Viewing Live Video
Table 3-1
Control
Privacy Zone
Note
Enable Privacy
Region check box
Region Color
drop-down menu
Privacy Zone
properties
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Camera Video & Control Window Controls (continued)
Description
To display these controls click the Expand icon
The icon changes to the Collapse icon
If you make changes to any of the Privacy Zone options, click the Save button to save the
changes.
Enables the Privacy Zone feature.
You can create up to four user-defined masking zones that can used to provide
regions of privacy in the camera field of view. When the Privacy Zone feature
is enabled, video within privacy each region is not recorded in the camera, nor
sent in the video stream. Instead of the actual video, privacy regions display as
solid rectangles that you choose from the Region Color drop-down list.
To designate regions, right-click the video image, choose Draw Region, then
hold down the left mouse button and draw the region, which is indicated by a
green rectangle.
To move a region, left-click it and drag its window to the desired area.
To resize a region, left-click it and drag an edge or corner of the region to the
desired size.
To remove a region, left-click it, then right-click it and choose Delete Region.
Choose the color in which the system displays the zones that are defined by
privacy regions. You can choose Red, Green, Black, or Blue.
To expand region properties information, click the + icon next to Privacy Zone
Properties. The icon changes to a – icon, which you click to collapse region
properties information.
Name—Name of the region. By default, the system assigns the name
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RegionX, where X is a number 1 through 4. To rename a region, click its
name (which appears in bold type on this line) and type a unique name of
up to 32 characters .
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IsActive—To indicate whether the IP camera displays a region as a privacy
mask, left-click that region, click IsActive, then choose True (mask the
region) of False (do not mask the region) from the drop-down menu that
appears on the IsActive line. Alternatively, you can double-click True or
False to toggle between these values.
next to Privacy Zone under the video image.
. Click the Collapse icon to hide these controls.
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