User`s manual

VC-C4

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Information Sending Side

Web Server

The web server is the computer that runs the web server software. When

accessed from a web browser, this server sends HTML data to the browser.

WebView Livescope Camera Server

This server is made up of a camera and a computer that

is equipped with an image capture board and runs the

camera server software. Normally, the server modules

start up automatically when the computer is switched on.

Module Functions

Camera control

server

This server receives camera control protocol signals from clients such as the

helper viewer and HTTP conversion server and performs camera control

functions such as pan and tilt. The camera control protocol used is the

WebView-TCP camera control protocol.

Video capture server

Maintenance server

This server receives communications from the WebView Livescope manager

and modifies settings on the camera server or restarts related services. This

server program can be used to manage the camera server from a remote

location. The communications protocol used is the dedicated WebView-TCP

remote maintenance protocol.

■ Server Module Types and Functions

This server performs JPEG compression on video signals received from the

camera (VC-C4/VC-C4R/VC-C3/VC-C1 MK-II) via the capture board (Osprey-

100, Meteor or Meteor-II/PPB) and sends the compressed signals to a client such

as a helper viewer or HTTP conversion server. The protocol used is the dedicated

WebView-TCP video transmission protocol.

Upload server

This server provides a still image collection function that periodically collects

video data according to a specified schedule and either saves the collected

images to a local disk or uses the FTP protocol to upload the images to a web

server machine connected to the network.

This server converts the dedicated WebView-TCP video transmission and

WebView-TCP camera control protocols to the HTTP 1.0-based WebView-

HTTP protocol. This module can also operate as a simple web server.

HTTP server