Patent ID: 7796031
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A monitoring apparatus which uses video data taken and outputted by a plurality of security imaging apparatuses for monitoring, the monitoring apparatus comprising: a display part configured to display the video data; an alarm generating part configured to analyze the video data and to generate an alarm in the case in which occurrence of irregularities is detected in an imaging area on the security imaging apparatus; and a control part configured to conduct control in which the control part switches display of a plurality of screens in general monitoring on the display part in turn, wherein each of the screens in general monitoring has a first layout, and in which the control part switches a display of a screen on the display part from a display of a first screen in general monitoring of the plurality of screens in general monitoring to a display of a screen having a second layout to display a taken image of the imaging area in which the occurrence of the irregularities is detected in the case in which the alarm generated in the alarm generating part is detected and returns the display to the display of the first screen in general monitoring at a predetermined timing from the detection of the alarm, wherein the first layout is different from the second layout.