Patent ID: 6564380
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A video feed remote control system comprising:(a) a plurality of video feeds generated from respective video cameras located on-site at a plurality of locations, said video cameras being of a predetermined different video camera types; (b) a plurality of video-camera-computers operable with respective ones of the video cameras for controlling them to generate the respective video feeds therefrom and transmit them to a designated local video-propagation server, said video camera computers being connected to the Internet and addressable by respective IP addresses; (c) at least one video-propagation server connected to the Internet for receiving via Internet video feeds from the respective video cameras located at the on-site locations; (d) a master authorization server connected to the Internet for receiving requests via Internet from requesting parties for access to any of the video feeds transmitted to the at least one video-propagation server and granting a requesting party access to a requested video feed from the video-propagation server receiving the requested video feed; and (e) a universal control panel graphical user interface (GUI) provided on a browser-enabled computer operated by the requesting party for controlling any of the different video camera types used to generate the video feeds, wherein upon granting a requesting party access to a requested video feed, said master authorization server provides to the requesting party an identification of the video camera type and the IP address of the computer for the video camera generating the requested video feed to enable the requesting party to issue control signals for the corresponding video camera type to the IP address of the computer for the video camera generating the requested video feed, wherein said universal control-panel GUI and a plurality of control panel GUI files are provided with a browser-enabled computer of a requesting party, and each control panel GUI file corresponds to a respective one of the different video camera types, and enables a display of the, universal control panel GUI on the requesting party's computer and issues a respective set of command codes for inputs to the universal control panel GUI corresponding to the respective video camera type.