Camera system, control method, communication terminal, and program storage media, for selectively authorizing remote map display using map listing
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuko Suzuki, Tomoaki Kawai
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Abstract
A display authorization area corresponding a user is selected from maps stored in a device, only the selected zone is displayed, and a camera which is not authorized for the user to perform information communication is inhibited from being displayed. With this arrangement, a camera control system having so excellent security that any user cannot see a place irrelevant to the user and cannot recognize the position of an installed camera is constructed.
Claims27
A video communication system for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to said video communication system via a network, said system comprising:
- a display device arranged to display a map;
- at least one index, superposed on the map, respectively indicating a position of said at least one camera on the map;
- a camera authorization setting device arranged to set an authorization state of a camera connected to the video communication system via the network, said authorization state indicating that said camera is authorized to be displayed as an index corresponding to said camera on a map, and inhibiting the display of an index corresponding to a camera which is connected to said video communication system via the network and which is not authorized to be displayed.
A video communication system for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to said video communication system via a network, said system comprising:
- a map authorization setting device arranged to set an authorization state of a map, for each user, of a plurality of maps each of which indicates a location of said at least one camera, said authorization state indicating whether said map is authorized to be displayed;
- a map display device arranged to display a map out of the authorized maps;
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- a map display inhibition device arranged to inhibit said map display device from displaying a map which is not authorized by said map authorization setting device.
A method of controlling a video communication system for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to the video communication system via a network, said method comprising:
- displaying a map for indicating a location of said at least one camera, and at least one index, superposed on the map, for respectively indicating a position of said at least one camera;
- setting an authorization state of a camera connected to said video communication system via the network, said authorization state indicating whether said camera is authorized to be displayed as an index corresponding to said camera;
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- inhibiting the display of an index corresponding to a camera, which is connected to said video communication system via the network and which is not authorized to be displayed.
A method of controlling a video communication system for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to the video communication system via a network, said method comprising:
- setting an authorization state of a map, for each user, of a plurality of maps each of which indicates a location of said at least one camera connected to the video communication system via the network, the authorization state indicating whether the map is authorized to be displayed;
- displaying a map out of the authorized maps;
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- inhibiting a screen from displaying a map which is not authorized.
A video communication terminal for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to a network, said terminal comprising:
- a display device arranged to display a map, and to display, superposed on the map, at least one index respectively indicating a position of said at least one camera on the map;
- a reception device arranged to receive information related to a camera of said at least one camera connected to the network, said information indicating that said camera is authorized to communicate;
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- an index display inhibition device arranged to inhibit said display device from displaying an index corresponding to a camera, which is connected to the network, other than a camera authorized to communicate on the basis of the information related to said camera received by said reception device.
A video communication terminal for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to a network, said terminal comprising:
- a reception device arranged to receive information related to a map of a plurality of maps each of which indicates a location of said at least one connected camera, said information indicating that said map is authorized to be displayed;
- a display device arranged to display at least one map out of the plurality of maps on the basis of the received information;
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- an inhibition device arranged to inhibit said display device from displaying a map which is not authorized to be displayed.
A storage media in which a program for executing an operation process of a video communication terminal for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to the video communication terminal via a network, the program executing the processes of:
- displaying a map for indicating a position where said at least one camera is located;
- displaying superposed on a map displayed in said displaying process at least one index respectively indicating a position of said at least one camera;
- receiving information related to a camera of said at least one camera connected to the video communication terminal via the network, said information indicating that said camera is authorized to be displayed superposed on a map as an index corresponding to said camera;
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- inhibiting the superposed display on a map displayed in the map displaying process of an index corresponding to a camera, which is connected to the video communication terminal via the network, other than a camera authorized to be displayed as an index corresponding to said camera on the basis of the information related to said camera received in said receiving process.
A storage media in which a program for executing an operation process of a video communication terminal for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to the video communication terminal via a network, said program executing the processes of:
- receiving information related to a map of a plurality of maps, each of which indicates a location of said at least one camera connected to the video communication terminal via the network, said information indicating that said map is authorized to be displayed;
- displaying at least one map out of the plurality of maps on the basis of the information received;
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- inhibiting a screen from displaying a map which is not authorized to be displayed.
A video communication system for communicating with at least one camera which is connected to the video communication system via a network, comprising:
- a camera authorization setting device arranged to set an authorization state of the at least one connected camera, said authorization state indicating that the at least one connected camera is authorized to be displayed as at least one index, each of which indicates a position of said at least one connected camera, on a map displayed on a screen;
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- an inhibition device arranged to inhibit a screen from displaying an index which indicates a position of a connected camera of said at least one connected camera, which isn't authorized to be displayed as the index by said camera authorization setting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.