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To focus a camera on a particular area, simply right-click the area you wish to target and the camera will move to dwell there:
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Camera Mini Control
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The Camera Mini Control can be accessed in three ways:
By selecting the camera from the Configuration Tree.
By using the Selection Menu.
By left clicking on the camera on the PPI Map.
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The Camera Mini Control offers you the following options:
Pin to Map Viewer: This opens the Pin to Map Viewer. Please see the section below on Using a Viewer Pin to Map Viewers.
Camera Home Position: This returns the camera to focus on its default home position.
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Height Map: Height Maps are very useful where a single camera needs to cover a region that has differing ground heights within it. For further information please visit to the Height Map page.
Viewers: This lists the available viewers, and selecting one will open the Viewer. Please see the section below on Using a Viewer.
Using the Selection Menu
There is a quick way of selecting the camera - this then displays the mini control:
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Video viewers allow video inputs from cameras to be displayed when required. Most usually, video viewers are used in conjunction with optical or thermal imaging cameras that can be called upon when an incident occurs in the areas that they cover.
There are two ways to open a viewer:
By selecting it from the Configuration Tree.
By selecting a viewer from the Viewers list.
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Camera Viewer Screen: This is the camera viewer display screen.
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In the example below, the camera has been automatically tasked by the system to follow the Track. The operator has selected the a viewer from the list of Viewers (circled highlighted in orange) from the Camera Mini Control which has opened the viewer on the top left of the PPI Map, and also the Viewer Mini Control, highlighted on the top right. The track and camera have been highlighted in the middle of the PPI Map:
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Mouse Control
In addition to the Direction & Magnification Controls, you can also use your mouse to move the camera within the Viewer.
Absolute Zoom
Moving the mouse wheel when hovering over a viewer will change the magnification. Moving it upwards will increase magnification. So, for example, from x0.74…
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…to x1.00:
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Conversely, moving the wheel downwards will decrease the magnification.
Point to Move
You can also utilize the mouse to move to an area, by Left-Click + Hold the mouse curser in the spot you wish to move the camera to.
When you begin to Left-Click the mouse a green ring will appear:
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This will be turn into a solid green circle once you have held the mouse for long enough:
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Then the viewer will be centred to where the mouse was pointing to:
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There is a limitation with Point to Click immediately after a relative move - you will see a red ring on the screen and the command will not be actioned. You will have to wait until this relative move has completed before you can Point to Click successfully. |
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Drag to Move
You can use the mouse to Left-Hand Click + Drag which displays a white pointer, moving the camera in the direction of the arrow. It can be moved in any direction away from the centre of the viewer. This allows you to move the camera in a diagonal direction, which the Direction & Magnification Controller can’t perform in one operation. The movement is proportional; manoeuvring it a little will move the camera a short distance, the further out you drag the arrow, will make the camera travel much further.
In the example below, the white pointer is highlighted in pink, and is moving diagonally away from the centre:
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As soon as you release the mouse it stops:
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Docking/Undocking Viewers
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Pin to Map Viewers are a quick way to view the camera’s output, when you don’t have your viewers open. You can click on a camera on the PPI Map to bring up a small viewer:
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These viewers are accessed in two ways:
Moving your mouse over a camera and leaving it on the camera will cause the viewer to show. Keeping the mouse over the viewer will keep it visible otherwise it will automatically close after a few seconds. Whilst the viewer is open you can pin it to the PPI Map using the pin icon to ensure it remains open.
Select the camera, and then from the camera mini control select the viewer button from the title bar. Note that this approach automatically pins the viewer to the PPI Map.
There are three sizes of viewer to choose from, small, medium and large. In the example below the smallest size viewer has been selected:
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You can CTRL + drag to move the popup viewer around, change it’s size and pin it to the PPI map. When it is pinned to the PPI, then the Pin icon is removed as in the example below:
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This example has the larger viewer screen selected. There is also another option when to minimise the Viewer when it is pinned:
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Clicking this will minimise the screen to show just the Viewer bar:
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