Patent ID: 8675074

Claim:
A video surveillance system, comprising: a plurality of video sources, where each video source is arranged to monitor and acquire video surveillance data within a separate source field of view (FOV); a video manager connected to each of the plurality of video sources to control the video sources and to process video surveillance data acquired therefrom; a user interface connected to the video manager for displaying each of the separate source FOVs from each of the plurality of respective video sources simultaneously in a matrix view; a composite view formatter for processing user input entered into the user interface to define a composite FOV, the user input identifying one or more regions of interest (ROIs) displayed within one or more of the separate source FOVs displayed on the user interface; and a renderer for rendering the composite FOV on a blank composite view palette, where one or more of the separate source FOVs are separately displayed on a first portion of the matrix view and the one or more ROIs of the separate source FOVs are simultaneously displayed on a second portion of the matrix view within the blank composite view palette and wherein the plurality of video sources includes at least one enhanced video source that responds to the composite view formatter by forwarding only video data comprising the selected ROI within the FOV supplied by the enhanced video source.