Patent ID: 8451329

Claim:
A method for surveillance system, comprising: storing a plurality of preset pan-tilt-zoom positions; storing a plurality of analytics configuration information, each of the plurality of analytics configuration information associated with a corresponding preset pan-tilt-zoom position in the plurality of preset pan-tilt-zoom positions; determining a current pan-tilt-zoom position of a camera; a user manually adjusting the pan-tilt-zoom position of the camera to a particular position, a controller of the camera automatically moving and setting the current pan-tilt-zoom position of the camera from the particular position to a nearest one of the plurality of preset pan-tilt-zoom positions; selecting analytics configuration information associated with the nearest one of the plurality of preset pan-tilt-zoom positions of the camera from the plurality of analytics configuration information; and performing surveillance analytics based on the selected analytics configuration information associated with the current pan-tilt-zoom position.