Video management system and method for dynamic displaying of video streams

A method for displaying video streams from a plurality of monitoring devices arranged in a network in a video display arrangement, wherein each monitoring device constitutes a node in the network and wherein each monitoring device has a logical connection to at least one other node, the method comprising:

• receiving video streams from the plurality of monitoring devices;
• displaying one or several of the video streams in the video display arrangement;
• in response to a first input, zooming out from a first subset of views from a first monitoring device or a first group of monitoring devices to a second subset of views, by adding views from a predetermined number of monitoring devices having a direct logical connection to the first monitoring device or the first group of monitoring devices, to the video display arrangement, thereby increasing a neighbor monitoring level by one;
• in response to a second input, zooming in from the second subset of views, thereby decreasing the neighbor monitoring level by one;
• and
• in response to a third input, zoom out from the second subset of views to a third subset of views by adding views from a predetermined number of monitoring devices having a logical connection in one or two steps to the first monitoring device or the first group of monitoring devices to the video display arrangement, thereby increasing the neighbor monitoring level by one.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having instructions recorded thereon which, when executed by a computing device or computing system, cause the computing device or computing system to carry out a method for displaying video streams from a plurality of monitoring devices arranged in a network in a video display arrangement, wherein each monitoring device constitutes a node in the network and wherein each monitoring device has a logical connection to at least one other node, the method comprising:

• receiving video streams from the plurality of monitoring devices;
• displaying one or several of the video streams in the video display arrangement;
• in response to a first input, zooming out from a first subset of views from a first monitoring device or a first group of monitoring devices to a second subset of views, by adding views from a predetermined number of monitoring devices having a direct logical connection to the first monitoring device or the first group of monitoring devices, to the video display arrangement, thereby increasing a neighbor monitoring level by one;
• in response to a second input, zooming in from the second subset of views, thereby decreasing the neighbor monitoring level by one;
• and
• in response to a third input, zoom out from the second subset of views to a third subset of views by adding views from a predetermined number of monitoring devices having a logical connection in one or two steps to the first monitoring device or the first group of monitoring devices to the video display arrangement, thereby increasing the neighbor monitoring level by one.