TIMELINE SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL METHOD FOR MULTIPLE DISPLAY VIEWS

摘要

A video surveillance system and methods for operating that sets the timeline for multiple views of video data from different cameras to playback separately from one another or to be linked so as to synchronize their playback. Placement and selection of a playback cursor to a particular point in a timeline of master view will cause linked views to automatically move to and synchronize to the same point in their associated timelines, and when the video data is being transmitted from multiple cameras to cause the cameras displaying the linked views to update so that the video data associated with each camera is updated to the selected point in time from the linked master view. Timeline resolutions for linked views are not affected by linking or unlinking views.

主权项

1. A video camera playback controlling system, comprising:
a plurality of video cameras, wherein each video camera is configured to collect video data over a timeline; a computerized system coupled to the plurality of video cameras, wherein the computerized system is configured to:
receive the collected video data from the plurality of video cameras;group the collected video data of two or more video cameras into one or more views, the one or more views comprising a first view and a second view;wherein the collected video data of each video camera in the first view is associated with a first timeline and the collected video data of each video camera in the second view is associated with a second timeline;wherein the first timeline is independent of the second timeline if the first view and the second view are not linked; andwherein the first timeline is synchronized with the second timeline if the first view and the second view are linked; and a display for displaying the collected video data.