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Modular video control system
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Inventors: Pshtissky, Yacov A.; Horn, Donald N.; Skidmore, John;
Assignee: Vicon Industries, Inc. (Melville, NY)
Primary Examiner: Chin; Tommy P.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Darby & Darby
A modular video switching system for switching a video signal from one of many video cameras to a video monitor. The system includes one or more individual modules each containing a limited set of input channels. The modules can be cascaded with each other to permit scanning of the video signals from all modules on to a single video monitor. Also provision is made for modular camera controls, requiring only a single control for all cameras, using modular circuitry to rout the control signals to the appropriate camera. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
For use in a closed circuit television system for selectively coupling at least one of N video sources to one or more video output devices, the improvement comprising: a chassis adapted to receive a plurality of physically separate plug-in modules, at least two switching modules plugged into said chassis, each switching module including M input terminals, each of which receives video signals from one of said N video sources, where M is less than N, the total number of switching modules providing between them a total of at least N input terminals so that any of said N video sources may be coupled to said one or more video output devices, at least one of said switching modules including at least one output terminal for coupling said N video sources to said one or more video output devices, means for scanning at least some of said N video sources in a predetermined sequence, and means responsive to said scanning means for coupling the video signals from said N video sources sequentially to said at least one output device.
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The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said means for coupling includes switching means at each of said switching modules for connecting selected ones of said N video sources to said scanning means and holding switch means for coupling any selected one of such video sources to said one or more video output devices.
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The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said N video sources comprises video cameras and wherein there is further provided a pan and tilt module plugged into said chassis for causing any selected one of said video cameras to be moved with respect to pan and tilt axes.
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The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said video sources comprise video cameras and wherein there is further provided a lens control module plugged into said chassis, said lens control module including a manually adjustable member for focusing and/or zooming the lens of a selected video camera.
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The improvement according to claim 1, wherein said at least one switching module includes master control circuit and the other switching modules include slave circuitry, the switching functions of said other modules, being controlled by said at least one switching module
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