Patent ID: 8208025
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video monitoring method comprising the steps of: providing at least one monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware for receiving video signals; providing a first monitoring station having a plurality of monitoring screens; providing a second monitoring station having a plurality of monitoring screens; displaying a plurality of surveillance video images from said at least one monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware on the monitoring screens of said first and second monitoring stations, with surveillance video images on monitoring screens of said first monitoring station being the same as surveillance video images on the monitoring screens of said second monitoring station but the relative positioning of the video images displayed on the monitoring screens of said first monitoring station differing from the relative positioning of the video images displayed on the monitoring screens of said second monitoring station, the monitoring screens of said first and second monitoring stations positioned for observation by two individuals from locations in front of said first and second, monitoring stations, one of the individuals positioned at a location in front of said first monitoring station and the other of the individuals positioned at a location in front of said second monitoring station; dividing each of said first and second monitoring stations into a primary vision area and a secondary vision area; keeping, by said monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware, the primary vision area of said first monitoring station within the range of the central vision of the individual positioned at the location in front of the first monitoring station and assigning primary responsibility for monitoring the images within the primary vision area of the first monitoring station to the individual positioned at the location in front of the first monitoring station; keeping, by said monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware, the primary vision area of said second monitoring station within the range of the central vision of the individual positioned at the location in front of the second monitoring station and assigning primary responsibility for monitoring the images within the primary vision area of the second monitoring station to the individual positioned at the location in front of the second monitoring station; keeping, by said monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware, the secondary vision area of said first monitoring statin outside the range of the central vision but within the range of the peripheral vision of the individual positioned at the location in front of the first monitoring station; and keeping, by said monitoring computer or other video image receiving hardware, the secondary vision area of the second monitoring station outside the range of the central vision but within range of the peripheral vision of the individual positioned at the location in front of the second monitoring station; on the monitoring screens within the primary vision area of the first monitoring station, displaying the same video images that the individual positioned at the location in front of the first monitoring station has primary monitoring responsibility; on the monitoring screens within the secondary vision area of the first monitoring station, displaying the same video images that the individual positioned at the location in front of the second monitoring station has primary monitoring responsibility; on the monitoring screens within the primary vision area of the second monitoring station, displaying the same video images that the individual positioned at the location in front of the second monitoring station has primary monitoring responsibility; and on the monitoring screens within the secondary vision area of the second monitoring station, displaying the same video images that the individual positioned at the location in front of the first monitoring station has primary monitoring responsibility.