Patent ID: 9420233
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G08B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of dynamically enabling the use of a video analysis program in a video surveillance system having a plurality of video sources connected to a network, said method comprising: enabling a video analysis program, installed in a plurality of video sources in the video surveillance system and stored in an encoder associated with each of the plurality of video sources, to be used with a predetermined number of video sources at one time, the predetermined number being fewer than the plurality; enabling the use of the video analysis program to be transferred from one of the plurality of video sources to another of the plurality of video sources provided that the total number of video sources using the video analysis program at one time is fewer than the predetermined number of video sources; and enabling a configuration of the video analysis program on at least one of the plurality of video sources using the video analysis program, the configuration enabled via a user interface control received from the at least one of the plurality of video sources using the video analysis program.