Moving picture recording and sending device

A monitoring system for connecting plural camera devices and a video signal recording transmitter through a LAN, and connecting this video signal recording transmitter and a monitoring device arranged in a remote place through a communication unit, and characterized in that

• said camera device has a first video signal compressing unit for compressing an image pickup signal and a LAN interface, and
• said video signal recording transmitter has:
• an assigning channel extracting circuit for switching and outputting video signal inputs from said plural camera devices in time division, and extracting a channel assigned on the basis of a channel assigning signal from said monitoring device,
• a video signal decoding unit for decoding a compression video signal of the assigning channel from the assigning channel extracting circuit,
• a recording unit for recording the video signal switched and outputted from said assigning channel extracting circuit in time division to a recording medium,
• a second video signal compressing unit for compressing an output from said video signal decoding unit in a high compressibility in comparison with said first video signal compressing unit, and
• a communication unit for transmitting an output signal from the second video signal compressing unit to another device.

A monitoring system for connecting plural camera devices and a video signal recording transmitter through a LAN, and connecting this video signal recording transmitter and a monitoring device arranged in a remote place through a communication unit, and characterized in that

• said camera device has a first video signal compressing unit for compressing an image pickup signal, a second video signal compressing unit for compressing said image pickup signal in a high compressibility in comparison with said first video signal compressing unit, and a LAN interface, and
• said video signal recording transmitter has:
• an assigning channel extracting circuit for switching and outputting video signal inputs from said plural camera devices in time division, and extracting a channel assigned on the basis of a channel assigning signal from said monitoring device, a recording unit for recording the video signal switched and outputted from said assigning channel extracting circuit in time division to a recording medium, and
• a communication unit for transmitting the second video signal compressed in the high compressibility in comparison with said first video signal compressing unit from said camera device to another device.