A wireless security camera has both a wall-mounted mode and a standalone mode. In wall-mounted mode, the camera is much more unobtrusive than prior cameras. In standalone mode, the camera is aesthetically pleasing and does not look out of place.

The system and method of real-time, two-way communication between a handler and a canine using RF frequencies. A multipurpose canine camera system with audio, visual, and thermal capabilities that transmits securely between a handler and a canine through hard structures and over long distances. The canine portion having one or more sensors. The sensors may include location, monitors for canine vital signs, heat signatures, chemical signature detection, and many others. The handler portion having a display configured to control the camera on the canine portion.

A graphical user interface (GUI) for video management software controlling a video surveillance system typically provides a user with a large range of viewing options. A user must interact with a variety of GUI controls to view video in a particular way. These interactions are time consuming and may be aggravating to a user, especially when the user routinely views video in a particular way. The present disclosure embraces a GUI in which camera icons may be dragged and/or dragged-and-dropped in drop areas to execute scripts enabling various viewing and camera-control operations.

A live video distribution system has an on-the-spot system including a video signal generating means for generating video signals of a plurality of systems having different display ranges and a communicating means, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses each including a video display means, a display range setting signal generating means, and a communicating means. The systems of the video signals and the terminal apparatuses are associated with each other, the on-the-spot system has a function to determine the display ranges of the video signals of the respective systems on the basis of display range setting signals generated by the terminal apparatuses associated with the respective systems, and a function to send the video signals. Each of the terminal apparatuses can send the display range setting signal, can receive the video signal of the system associated with the terminal apparatus itself, and can display a video image based on the video signal.

Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for capturing and delivering real-time racing videos when a race car travels around a racetrack. The disclosed systems and techniques are designed to capture racing video signals both from the vantage point of the race car itself and using a set of cameras installed around the racetrack. The captured racing videos and racing metadata can be uploaded or streamed live to a server as the race car travels around a racetrack by connecting the race car to a nearby or the closest Wi-Fi hotspot to the race car within a set of Wi-Fi hotspot placed around the racetrack. The uploaded multiple channels of racing video signals can be combined with racing metadata collected from the race car to generate “meta-video” packages which can be automatically delivered in multiple formats.

System, Method and Apparatus for generating a collection of images, the technique including providing at least two mobile devices with a data processing unit, a storage memory and a camera integrated therein or connected thereto; providing a master system with a data processing unit and a storage memory or configuring of one of the mobile devices as master system and configuring of the other or of all mobile devices as slave systems; setting a recording criterion in the master system; transmitting the recording criterion to the slave systems; setting a series ending criterion in the master system; transmitting the series ending criterion to the slave systems; respectively performing a process for recording an image on each slave system as long as the series ending criterion is not fulfilled comprising the steps of recording at least one image with the camera of one of the slave systems whenever the recording criterion is fulfilled, and sending the image from the slave system to the master system together with a time stamp, a series number and/or another variable for grouping the image; saving each of the images sent respectively with their time stamp, their series number and/or their variable for grouping in the storage memory of the master system; and generating a series of images comprising the images sent in order according to their time stamp, their series number and/or their variable for grouping.

A communication apparatus that accepts remote control from an external apparatus via wireless communication, the communication apparatus comprising a communication unit configured to communicate with the external apparatus, and a control unit configured to execute, in response to an operation request that the communication unit has received from the external apparatus, the request being performed through the remote control, a task corresponding to the operation, wherein the control unit sets a time interval relating to a timing at which communication with the external apparatus is performed, and controls the communication unit to perform communication with the external apparatus in compliance with the set time interval.

A method for controlling a plurality of imaging apparatuses capable of communicating with each other includes acquiring information about an image capturing angle of view of each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and determining an image capturing parameter to be used when one imaging apparatus among the plurality of imaging apparatuses shifts to a use state, based on information about an image capturing parameter or evaluation value in an other imaging apparatus, and an image capturing angle of view of each of the other imaging apparatus and the one imaging apparatus.

An apparatus includes a plurality of output ports and a processor. The output ports may each be configured to connect to a respective trigger device and generate an output signal to activate the respective trigger device. The processor may be configured to determine a number of the trigger devices connected to the output ports, determine a timing between each of the number of the trigger devices connected, convert the timing for each of the trigger devices to fit a standard timing using offset values specific to each of the trigger devices and perform a trigger routine to trigger the output signal for each of the trigger devices connected. The trigger routine may activate each of the trigger devices connected according to an event. The offset values may delay triggering the trigger devices to ensure that the trigger devices are sequentially activated at intervals that correspond consistently with the standard timing.

Multiple cameras may be controlled over a wide area network in a routine that includes aggregating video processing capabilities of the cameras into a first graphics processing unit resource pool. The first graphics processing unit resource pool is operated on raw video feeds of the cameras to combine and transform the raw video feeds into a virtual video feed, wherein at least one camera of the cameras processes a raw video feed output by a different camera of the cameras. The virtual video feed is communicated over the wide area network to a master video processor, which is operated in a feedback loop to analyze the virtual video feed and control the first graphics processing unit resource pool to improve one of a quality or a content of the virtual video feed.