DIGITAL IMAGE RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE FOR MONITORING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optionally set the display pattern of a live image or a reproduced image in a monitoring area in accordance with a use purpose. SOLUTION: Image signals 41 photographed by monitoring cameras installed at a plurality of places of a plurality of monitoring areas are digitized for each monitoring area according to prescribed reference and recorded in a picture recorder 8. The image signals 41 are displayed as the live image on an unillustrated monitor. In such a case, a multiple picture reproduction/decoding controlling means 11 applies multiple picture processing to the image signals, and the image signals are subjected to picture division for each monitoring camera of the monitoring areas or for each monitoring area to be displayed.