Patent ID: 9398266
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G08B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring a surveillance-target in a surveillance area navigating through the surveillance area's locations, using online video-image-displays of video streams arriving from a multiplicity of video cameras installed in different locations of the surveillance area, said method comprising the steps of: enabling a user to select an area that includes an image of the surveillance-target shown in the video streams; automatically identifying the area location by identifying the coordinates enclosing the shape defining the user defined area; automatically referencing an architectural module that includes an architectural plan of the surveillance area to use the coordinates to identify an access point associated with the user defined area, the access point allowing ingress and egress from a first discrete space in the surveillance area to a second discrete space in the surveillance area; automatically referencing the architectural module to identify first and second cameras of the multiplicity of video cameras associated with the access point; automatically displaying the video streams of the first video camera that is associated with the access point and then automatically displaying the video streams of the second video camera that is associated with the access point; and providing a graphical user interface with activators, which are areas in said graphical user interface that allow the user to define features of display, record video streams data, save settings, select video cameras from the multiplicity of video cameras and define cameras settings of the multiplicity of video cameras, wherein at least some of said activators further enable the user to shift to a planar view, in which a display window shows a layout of at least some of the multiplicity of video cameras over a map showing at least a part of the surveillance area.