Remote image-monitoring host and monitoring apparatus
OwnerVincent Haoinventor
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Abstract
A remote image monitoring host and a monitoring apparatus. The design of the remote image monitoring host is changed, so that instead of using a personal computer to select a certain monitor station for monitoring image, a display such as a television or monitor can be connected to any remote image monitoring host, and a remote control can be used to select a monitoring station of which the image is displayed. Therefore, the remote image monitoring host and the monitoring apparatus can be installed at any monitoring station to conveniently monitor the images in monitoring stations located in various places.
Claims16
A remote image-monitoring host, comprising:
- an infrared receiver, to receive a monitoring command output from a remote control;
- a display interface unit, coupled to the infrared receiver to provide connection of a display interface of a display and transmission of the monitoring command;
- an HTTP client unit, coupled to the display interface unit to convert the monitoring command into a local HTTP request via a communication medium, and to receive a compressed remote image corresponding to the local HTTP request by the communication medium;
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- an image decompression unit, coupled to the HTTP client unit and the display interface unit to recover the compressed remote image, and to transmit the remote image via the interface unit and display the remote image on the display.
A remote image-monitoring apparatus, comprising:
- a remote control, to output a monitoring command;
- a display, to display an image of a monitored target;
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- a remote image-monitoring host, coupled to the display to receive the monitoring command, to convert the monitoring into a local HTTP request transmitted via a network, and to display a remote image in response with the local HTTP request on a display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.