Video surveillance system integrating real and logical video streams

摘要

A camera emulation server enables integration of real and logical digital video streams within a video surveillance system. The camera emulation server produces a logical digital video stream emulating a real video surveillance camera, in which the logical digital video stream includes data other than original video surveillance data. The camera emulation server provides the logical digital video stream to a video management server via a packet-switched network for integration with a real digital video stream that includes video surveillance data captured by a remote physical video surveillance camera. The video management server routes the logical digital video stream and the real digital video stream to a video receiving device for simultaneous display in respective window panes configured in a tiled format on at least one display device of the video receiving device.

主权项

1. A video surveillance system, comprising:
a camera emulation server including a processor for producing a logical digital video stream emulating a real video surveillance camera, the logical digital video stream including data other than original video surveillance data; and a video management server coupled to the camera emulation server via a packet-switched network to receive the logical digital video stream and further coupled to the packet-switched network to receive a real digital video stream including video surveillance data captured by a remote physical video surveillance camera, the video management server including a processor for providing the logical digital video stream and the real digital video stream to a video receiving device via the packet-switched network for simultaneous display in respective window panes configured in a tiled format on at least one display device of the video receiving device.