QuickView

Quickview is a network enabled user interface that allows video viewing between multiple video server technologies.  It is a component of ESMS.

QuickView, the ECS video management and display program, uses a MONITOR WINDOW to show video of all types.  Each QuickView window executes independently.  Multiple QuickView windows may run on a single station at the same time.  These windows differ only in how they are started. 

Any QuickView window may display ANY system connected camera view from ANY system connected video server.  The same QuickView window is used to display a view from any camera or any video server.  QuickView makes all of the different integrated vendors products look and behave alike.  The title of the view is displayed in the top border.

To Start a QuickView monitor window

Numerous ways exist for QuickView windows to be started:

• STATIC windows are displayed on station startup.  Most monitoring situations identify a varity of views that demand regular observation.  Such regularly displayed views are often referred to as STATIC windows.  The administrator predefines these windows for a station and can enable control options on these windows including:
  • whether the operator has CONTROLS on the window
  • whether the window can be closed
  • whether the window can be resized
  • whether the window can be moved
  • whether the window can request saves of video clips
  • whether the window can select other views

• ADHOC windows are displayed when an operator clones a view (i.e. copies one from another QuickView window simply to create a new window or to copy a window from a video tour because it demands attention without stoppint the tour) or  when an operator opens an independent QuickView from the ECS Console

• An VIEW or ALARM SALVO is displayed in predefined windows when an alarm is clicked in the SCOREBOARD with a default view defined

• An VIEW or ALARM SALVO is displayed in predefined windows when a view is clicked in a MAP window

Definitions

• MONITOR WINDOW - A framed window used to display live or stored video, a geospatial map, a graphic, a console, a tracking map, or a scoreboard
• VIEW - A particular scene from a camera.  Some cameras, such as a fixed camera, only have one view.  Other cameras, such as pan-tilt-zoom cameras, have many views
• FIXED CAMERA - A camera that has a fixed position once installed
• POSITIONABLE CAMERAS - Some cameras can display many views.  These cameras typically have the ability to change their position and are therefore positionable.  Certain pre-established positions are established as views.  These are often called PRESETS
• VIDEO SERVER - A computing element that captures video, stores video, and digitally transmits video images
• TOUR - An ordered sequence of views with associated dwell (display) times that is processed and handled as one view
• SALVO - A group of cameras that are displayed as a view in multiple monitor windows