Abstract: Systems and methods for representing and controlling a plurality of cameras in a monitoring station are provided. Some methods can include a monitoring station receiving data streams from cameras monitoring secured areas, each of the data streams including metadata appended thereto, the metadata appended to each of the data streams identifying attributes related to a respective data stream, and a graphical user interface of the monitoring station displaying visual representations of the data streams based on a default display layout associated with each of the data streams and received user input identifying a user-defined display layout for the data streams. The user input can include an identification of a user-selected attribute and responsive thereto, a logic unit of the monitoring station can identify data streams that include metadata identifying the user-selected attribute for displaying on the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A system and method for managing a network video recording system are provided. The method includes interfacing a network video recording system with an end user operating system, and managing the network video recording system via the end user operating system.

Abstract: A number of monitoring stations provide input surveillance video sequences and sensor signals to a remote facility such as a central monitoring station for further processing. A user interface at the remote facility allows a user to select a received input surveillance video sequence for summarization processing. A control at the remote facility summarizes the selected input surveillance video sequence into one or more video segments of shorter temporal duration. Video segments summarized from the selected input surveillance video sequence are displayed.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an administrator to create device profiles, and map specific device profiles to specific operators. The system comprises a surveillance device to record an event, an administrator station for receiving a data stream corresponding to the event and for assigning the data stream to a device profile based on a plurality of attributes in the metadata of the stream, and a broadcast engine for mapping the data stream alongside a plurality of data streams within the device profile to an operator station.

Abstract: Systems and methods for representing and controlling a plurality of cameras in a monitoring station. A security system comprising a plurality of cameras transmits data streams to a monitoring station. The data stream has metadata describing a plurality of attributes for the data stream. The monitoring station is equipped with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to represent the plurality of data streams in various user-defined layouts. The method comprises generating a display layout for at least one of the plurality of data streams based on the plurality of attributes, displaying the display layout on one of a plurality of windows within the GUI, and providing the ability to recursively display a plurality of display layouts within the plurality of windows in any layout combination based on the attributes for the data streams within the plurality of display layouts.

Abstract: Tracking an intruder throughout regions in an area under surveillance by locating video cameras to provide an image for each region. For each camera a subset of the cameras are associated as auxiliary cameras to that camera; these associations are stored in a table. One camera is the initial primary camera and displays an initial primary image. An auxiliary video image is displayed for each of the auxiliary cameras that were previously associated with the initial primary camera. An intruder travels from region to region and leaves the primary video image and/or appears in an auxiliary video image. The user selects one of the auxiliary cameras to become a subsequent primary camera, and the video image from the subsequent primary camera is displayed as a subequent primary image. A video image for each of the auxiliary cameras previously associated with the subsequent primary camera will be displayed.