Abstract: Described is a method for registering and executing instructions in a video capturing device and to a door station.

Abstract: A method configures an installation of a control system within an operational environment, where the control system may include distributed physical access control system. The method may provide options for installing peripheral devices compatible with a controller, and receive selections based on the provided options. The selections may be associated with an operational environment of at least one selected peripheral device. The method may generate instructions to command the controller to specify individual pins from a plurality of pins for connecting the controller to at least one selected peripheral device. The method may subsequently create a report to describe connections between the specified individual pins associated with the controller and wires associated with at least one selected peripheral device. An apparatus can implement the method to configure the installation of the control system in its operational environment.

Abstract: A method calibrates a camera having image sensor having a center position. An image view projected onto the image sensor by a lens is captured. At least one image view boundary of the captured image view is detected. A projection center position corresponding to a center of the projected image view is determined in at least one dimension. Offset between the projection center position and a sensor center position is determined, defined in at least one dimension, corresponding to the center of the image sensor capturing the projected image view. The image sensor is moved in relation to the lens based on the offset in order to arrive at a substantially zero offset in at least one dimension between the center of image sensor and the center of the projected image view.

Abstract: An image stabilization mechanism for a camera is provided. The mechanism comprises a movement sensor capable of sensing motion of the camera, an element in an optical path of the camera, a ball and a plate acting as a bearing allowing for the element to move in a plane orthogonal to the optical path, an actuator mechanism capable of moving the element in the plane, and a processor configured to control the actuator to move the element as a response to motion of the camera as detected by the movement sensor, thereby stabilizing images from the camera. Furthermore, the processor further is configured to move the element along a secondary motion path so as to distribute wear on the plate created by the ball, and the processor is further capable of compensating for an image shift created by the secondary motion path by other means for shifting the image.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for mounting a device in an opening in a structure comprising a socket configured to receive the device, an anchoring element, and a fastening element configured for adjustable engagement with the anchoring element is disclosed. The socket has a plate portion and a body portion to be insertable in the opening, and an abutment flange extending from the body portion and dimensioned to abut a first side of the structure, and an aperture for receiving the fastening element. The anchoring element is insertable through the opening and has abutment portions for abutting a second side of the structure, the anchoring element comprising an opening for receiving and holding the fastening element. The fastening element has a distal end configured to adjustably engage with the opening of the anchoring element, and a proximal end configured to engage with the aperture of the socket and to hold the socket.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for mounting a device in an opening is disclosed. The arrangement comprises an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve arranged inside the outer sleeve, and an adjustment ring arranged inside the outer sleeve. A flange is arranged at a first end of the outer sleeve, arranged to receive said device. The flange is adapted to abut an outer surface of the structure. The inner sleeve is arranged in threaded engagement with the adjustment ring or with the outer sleeve. The adjustment ring comprises a fixing wing extending outwardly through a longitudinally extending aperture in the outer sleeve, the fixing wing having an abutment portion adapted to abut an inner surface of the structure. By relative rotary motion of the inner and outer sleeve, the adjustment ring is movable along a longitudinal direction of the arrangement for adjustment to a thickness of the structure.

Abstract: A housing for enclosing an electric circuitry and for providing a cable strain relief function to a cable extending from the electric circuitry and out of the housing and a camera comprising such a housing is disclosed. The housing comprises a first part with a first recess and a second part with a second recess, wherein the first and second recesses each has a first sidewall portion, a bottom portion and a second sidewall portion, the first and second sidewall portions of the first recess being arranged offset to each other in a cable exit direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing presentation of recorded motion video. The method preparing and sending a request for recorded video that originates from a specific video source, receiving a video information message including data relating to characteristics of a plurality of motion video recordings captured by the video source, wherein the received characteristics of each motion video recording includes a recording identity, a video quality value, a media address, an indication of start time and end time for the recording, and generating a motion video play scheme based at least on said video quality value, said indication of start time, and said indication of end time for each motion video recording.

Abstract: A method and system for determining a position of a camera is disclosed. The method and system includes determining and registering geographical coordinates of a mobile device in the mobile device itself, presenting on a display of the mobile device a pattern representing the geographical coordinates of the mobile device, capturing by the camera an image of the display of the mobile device when presenting the geographical coordinates, translating in the camera the pattern in the captured image of the display of the mobile device into geographical coordinates, and determining in the camera the position of the camera based on the geographical coordinates translated from the pattern in the captured image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting a digital camera. The invention also relates to a corresponding device and a corresponding computer program. An original image recorded by the camera is received. The original image has an original aspect ratio. A first user input defining a center point of an area of interest within the original image is received. A second user input defining a perimeter for the area of interest of the original image is received. The perimeter for the area of interest has the same aspect ratio as the original aspect ratio. The camera view is adjusted based on the first user input and the second user input to provide a zoomed image of the defined area of interest. The zoomed image is centered on the center point defined by the first user input. Finally, the zoomed image is displayed to the user on a display screen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enabling an image stabilized video. The method comprises providing data defining a vignetting effect for digital image frames captured by a video camera; determining a dislocation value for a digital image frame captured by the video camera; determining, based on the dislocation value, a region of the digital image frame to be displayed in the image stabilized video; applying a vignetting removal process at least on pixels of the digital image frame corresponding to the region to be displayed in the image stabilized video, wherein said applying being based on the data defining the vignetting effect; and reintroducing vignetting on the region of the digital image frame to be displayed in the video based on the data defining the vignetting effect and the dislocation value.

Abstract: A method performed in a processing unit for finding settings to be used in relation to a sensor unit connected to the processing unit is disclosed. The method comprises inter alia receiving, from the sensor unit, a first identifier identifying a type of the sensor unit, and a second identifier identifying a group of at least one related type of sensor unit. If no settings associated with the first identifier are stored in the processing unit, but settings associated with the second identifier are stored in the processing unit, the processing unit uses the settings associated with the second identifier in relation to the sensor unit.

Abstract: An arrangement for a monitoring camera device having a camera head being movable within a movement range (MR1, MR2) is provided. The arrangement comprises an enclosure for covering the interior of the monitoring camera device and having an opening for the camera head providing a free line of sight for an arbitrary camera head position within the movement range (MR1, MR2), a shield movably arranged relative the enclosure for masking parts of the opening not being used for providing the free line of sight for the arbitrary camera head position, the shield comprising a first and a second shield portion mutually movably arranged, wherein the shield is maneuverable between a compressed state and an extended state by movement of the first shield portion relative to the second shield portion. A monitoring camera device comprising the arrangement is further provided.

Abstract: Described is a method for registering and executing instructions in a video capturing device and to a door station.

Abstract: A method for processing an image in a video device, comprises reading an image and combining the image with metadata related to the image by embedding the metadata in or with the image. The method further includes combining transforming the image and extracting the metadata from the image, before encoding the image in an encoder and utilizing the metadata as input in further processing.

Abstract: The present application relates to a camera where a non-wide-angle lens and a wide-angle lens projects images onto different regions of one and the same image sensor. The non-wide-angle lens images a part of a periphery of the wide-angle lens image, and in this way an overview image with an improved quality peripheral region can be achieved.

Abstract: In a method for image stabilization a number of operations are performed to stabilize an image and to output a focal length value. The steps include capturing video by means of a video camera with unknown focal length running an image stabilization process operating on an input from a hardware detector detecting the displacement of the camera and on an adjustable focal length value. Inter-image displacement is corrected based on the input from the hardware detector and the adjustable focal length value. By evaluating the displacement and adjusting the focal length value until a satisfactory image stabilization is achieved a value of the focal length may be output.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a focal-length setting of a lens mounted to a camera is disclosed. In a method for determining a focal-length of a lens mounted to a camera, a distorted image of a scene is captured. A distortion-correction function is applied on the distorted image or on a portion of the distorted image. A most representative distortion-correction function is identified and a current focal-length setting for the lens is identified by correlating the identification to a data compilation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a first camera. The method comprises presenting a visual representation of a second camera in a camera managing device, presenting a visual representation of the first camera in the camera managing device, connecting the visual representation of the first camera to the visual representation of the second camera, transferring, to the first camera, settings information related to the second camera in response to said connecting of the visual representation of the first camera to the visual representation of the second camera, and configuring the first camera using the transferred settings information.