METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE CAPTURE, ANALYSIS AND TRANSMISSION

摘要

A method, system and apparatus for image capture, analysis and transmission are provided. A link aggregation method involves identifying controller network ports to a source connected to the same subnetwork; producing packets associating corresponding controller network ports selected by the source CPU for substantially uniform selection; and transmitting the packets to their corresponding network ports. An image analysis method involves producing by a camera an indication whether a region of an image differs by a threshold extent from a corresponding region of a reference image; transmitting the indication and image data to a controller via a communications network; and storing at the controller the image data and the indication in association therewith. The controller may perform operations according to positive indications. A transmission method involves receiving user input in respect of a video stream and transmitting, in accordance with the user input, selected data packets of selected image frames thereof.

主权项

1. A method of transmitting data by scalable link aggregation, the method comprising:
(a) identifying by a controller device to a source device one or more network ports of the controller device, the source device and the controller device being connected to a communications network and being associated with a subnetwork of the communications network, but not configured to support link aggregation between the source device and the controller device; (b) producing by the source device a plurality of network packets comprising the data, each of the network packets being associated with a corresponding network port of the one or more network ports; and (c) transmitting each network packet from the source device to the corresponding network port.