Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual August 22, 2006 www.cbcamerica.com CBC (America) Proprietary Information p.
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Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Table of Contents Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................................................3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................5 Technical Support ................................................................................
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Frequently Asked Questions......................................................................................................................33 Regulatory Compliance .......................................................................................................................................41 FCC Compliance Statement ..........................................................................................................................
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Introduction Thank you for purchasing CBC mega-pixel IP video cameras. MP2, MP3DN, MP5, and MP8D are state-of-the-art IP cameras designed to deliver full-motion high definition digital video across local area networks. The CBC software system accommodates multiple cameras connected to a single video server and provides for a variety of display and digital archiving modes.
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Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual MP8D is a quad-sensor 8-megapixel panoramic camera consisting of four 2-megapixel sensors and operating at up to 22 FPS per camera. All cameras are equipped with LAN connector and can deliver image data at a maximum data rate of up to 55 Mbps. Images are sent over the network in a compressed Motion JPEG format using TFTP protocol.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Optics MP2, MP3DN, and MP5 should be used with a 1/2” or 2/3” optical format lenses. MP3DN requires two manual iris lenses and has a limitation on lens diameter (<38mm). Manual Lenses A wide variety of C/CS mount lenses with megapixel resolution may be used with CBC cameras. Note that all C-mount lenses require a 5mm adaptor ring. Some lenses may also require 0.4mm-0.8mm adjustment spacers.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software • • User Manual User software utilizing CBC (America) camera SDK (Software Developer Kit) HTTP requests issued from IE Explorer or other applications Supported Network Services MP2, MP3DN and MP5 implements deliver video over TFTP and HTTP network protocols. TFTP protocol yields the highest frame rate. It is accessible to the user through CBC SDK. CBC Video software also utilizes TFTP protocol.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE MPS To complement its line of megapixel cameras CBC (America) offers full-featured video surveillance software, MPS.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software Figure 1. Open Norton Internet Security firewall for CBC Camera Installer application User Manual Figure 2. Open McAfee Personal Firewall for CBC Video System application If you are using Windows XP firewall, follow these instructions: 1. Click the Windows Start button and select “Control Panel”. 2. From the “Control Panel” open “Windows Firewall”. 3. “Windows Firewall” settings dialog will appear.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software Figure 3. Windows firewall is enabled and exceptions are allowed User Manual Figure 4. Verify "LocalMachine" or “CBC Video System”, “CBC Manager”, and “CBC Installer” are in the list of exceptions Figure 5. Add CBC Installer, CBC Application Manager, and CBC Video System to the list of exceptions CBC (America) Proprietary Information p.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual CBC Application Manager Setup.exe places the shortcut to the CBC Application Managers on the user’s Desktop. All programs and utilities comprising CBC Video System can be accessed via CBC Application Manager. The standard selections include Camera Installer, Video System, and AVI Maker. The Firmware Loader can also be listed as shown below if the CBCFirmwareLoader.exe is placed in the CBC (America) Video Surveillance folder.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software • User Manual Advanced Mode – In this mode the user can detect all CBC cameras present on the local area network and choose one or more cameras for the installation. Furthermore, Advanced mode allows to set IP of the cameras either automatically (as in Basic mode) or manually, if specific values of IP addresses are required.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Operating CBC Video System MPS Note: CBC Video System requires a license file for each of the installed CBC cameras. The license is tied to a unique camera’s MAC address. The license files are located in the C:\Program Files\CBC America\Video Surveillance\license folder. However, for the evaluation purposes, MPS will operate any one CBC camera without a license.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software • Displays the Settings menu (see Setting below). • Enables a full screen display without the toolbar and menus.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Settings Settings menu is displayed by clicking on the Settings button in the toolbar. Settings menu (shown on the left) is the top level menu for all settings provided in the CBC Video System. Selecting one of the menu items opens up a lower level dropdown menu containing detailed settings and options.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Exposure Exposure is a lower-level menu to adjust exposure related settings: “Auto exposure On/Off” is an option to enable/disable the on-camera automatic exposure computation. Auto exposure maintains the target image brightness under changing lighting conditions. • “Illumination” is a group of options to adjust camera’s white balance computation to the illumination of the scene.
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Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Image Quality is a lower-level menu to adjust image quality settings: “Compression” adjusts the level of JPEG compression applied to the images in different display modes: “Full View” when displaying full resolution video; “Multi View” when displaying multiple cameras at a reduced resolution; “Zoom View” when displaying zoom windows. “Brightness” adjusts image brightness. “Sharpness” adjusts image sharpness.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Archive Archive is a lower-level menu to set up video archival settings: “Filter” is a group of archiving options: “Save all frames” enables archiving the entire video stream received from the camera. “Save all and mark motion” enables saving the entire video stream and marking the frames when motion was detected for future archive browsing.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual motion detection is disabled. The Enabled/Disabled status is displayed in the bottom right corner of the Motion Settings window. Motion detection is computed independently in multiple detection zones on a square grid. The largest grid supported for any CBC camera model and image size is 8 by 8.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual cannot exceed the number of zones in the grid (displayed in the lower left corner of Motion Settings). Save to A lower level Save to menu allows to specify the directory path for video archives and for snapshot images. Note that while the name of archival directory should be the same for all cameras, it is possible to specify different Hard Drives for each camera.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Access Control / Permission “Access Control” or “Permission” is used to set up password-protected access to CBC Video System. For any user there are three levels of access available (from the drop-down list): “Administrator” grants full access to all features of CBC Video System. “Viewer” grants access to live video and browsing the archives, but not to the settings. “Live only” grants access to live video only.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Day/Night “Day/Night” settings apply only to MP3DN camera. “Automatic” enables the camera to automatically switch from daylight conditions (using the color sensor) to nighttime conditions (using the monochrome sensor), and back based on the Threshold settings (see below). “Day” enables the daylight mode and disables the nighttime mode. “Night” enables the nighttime mode and disables the daylight mode.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual The state of the auto-iris is displayed on a color panel which has six different states: “Disabled”: the auto-iris is either disabled by un-checking the “Enabled” check box, or is not present. “Evaluating”: the camera is preparing to close the iris. “Too Dark”: the camera cannot close the iris because the scene illumination is too low. “Closing”: the iris is closing down by the number of F-stops appropriate for the lens model.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 1. “Show” presents two options: “Archive” enables access to browsing archives. (See “Browsing Archives”). “Photos” enables access to snapshots taken with the CBC cameras. The default snapshots location is C:\Program Files\CBC America\Video Surveillance\photo, a different directory path to the snapshot folder can be specified in the Settings menu (see Settings). 2.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual CBC Video System allows setting up password-protected access (see Access Control / Permission). If one or more user accounts were created, the CBC Video System will display a log-in dialog prompting for the user name and password, as shown below: Language Selection CBC Live Video System supports interfaces in English, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Finnish, and other languages. To select language press the F2 button to bring up the language menu.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual • Play in Reverse – Plays the recorded archive continuously in reverse • Play by Frame in Reverse – Starts the playback one frame at a time in reverse • Pause – Pauses the playback. • Play by Frame Forward – Starts playback one frame at a time forward. • Play – Plays the recorded archive continuously forward. • Fast forward • Forward - Starts browsing from the end of recording.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software • • User Manual “Frame Period” adjusts the AVI frame rate (in milliseconds). If this setting does not match the archived frame rate, the AVI video will be playing accordingly faster or slower. “Video Compression” offers three options for making the AVI file: “MSVC - standard” is a standard Microsoft video codec. “XviD – http://www.koepi.org/xvid.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software • 3. User Manual The firmware upgrade will start automatically. Do not disconnect the CBC camera. When the upgrade is complete “Success!” message will be displayed with the new revision of firmware. To upgrade the hardware: • Click “Upgrade Hardware” and choose the hardware upgrade file. The file name starts with “hwupdate”, and the file extension is .bin. MAKE SURE THAT THE CAMERA MODEL YOU ARE UPGRADING IS INCLUDED IN THE HWUPDATE FILE NAME.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual HTTP Access CBC (America) IP cameras employ proprietary massively-parallel image processing architecture, Megapixel WEB camera, and CBC Network Video are designed to provide low cost full motion high definition digital video across local area networks. Delivering over 45 Mpixels/sec of crystal-clear imagery, these state-of-the-art cameras represent cost-comparable but vastly superior alternative to low resolution analog and digital CCTV video.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Troubleshooting and Useful Tips Connecting Directly To Laptop or PC In a typical scenario cameras are connected using network cables to a network switch. A camera can also be connected to a PC or laptop directly. Be sure to use a cross-over network cable between the camera and PC when connecting in this fashion. When a camera is connected directly, in some cases you may need to change TCP/IP configuration on your PC.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 3. Why am I having trouble running more than one camera? Our MPS software implements a licensing policy where one camera will always work, but to have more than one camera displayed you will need a license file. 4. How do I change the location of the Archive folder? The default destination of the Archive folder is C:\Program Files\CBC America. The location of the archive can be changed using “Save to” menu under “Settings”.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 5. Why is my CBC (America) camera not detected by the Camera Installer? If the camera in not detected it maybe because of the firewall settings. To allow Camera Installer access to the network the user should, configure the firewall properly. To configure the Windows firewall, access the Windows Security Center in the Windows Control Panel, then click on Windows Firewall.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 8. What is the cost of a CBC (America) camera? The cost varies from camera to camera but for unparallel clarity our prices are unbeatable. Visit us online at www.cbcamerica.com 9. Is there third party software that can be used? CBC (America) cameras are supported by many third-party software packages Current NVR Partners: Bosch – www.boschsecurity.com(DiBos 8) D3DATA – www.d3data.com DVTEL – www.dvtel.com Genetec – www.genetec.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 10. When should the user choose auto-iris option? Certain CBC cameras support auto-iris option. These cameras are: MP2A and MP5A. Auto-iris option allows keeping the lens optimally closed when there is sufficient scene illumination, providing good depth of focus. When the illumination diminishes the camera opens the lens, allowing more light to reach the sensor, thus extending the sensitivity range of the camera.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual should consider the MP3DN day-night camera that uses monochrome sensor in low light conditions and is sensitive to 0.01 lux . 11. How do I disable the auto startup of the CBC (America) software? To disable the auto startup of the CBC Software start from Settings Select Control Panel, Administrative Tools, then double click Services. Under Services (Local) scroll down and double-click on LMSrv. In the LMSrv Properties window select the General Tab.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 19. Every time that I start the software application it starts recording all frames, even if I set it to record only motion frames. Is this a bug? This is a bug that was fixed in software version 3.8.1 and above. 20. How do the CBC (America) cameras utilize PTZ (Pan, Tilt, Zoom)? There is no mechanical PTZ. However CBC cameras have multi-megapixel resolution and allow instantaneous electronic pan, tilt and zoom by specifying PTZ window coordinates.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual 27. What type of power supply is needed for CBC (America) cameras? MP2 and MP5 cameras should be powered from a 9V to 12V DC power source providing at least 4W per camera. MP3DN requires 5W. 12V – 1A is recommended. MP8D requires 6W. Alternatively, all cameras can be powered using POE 802.3af compliant power supply or switch. 28.
Megapixel Cameras and Surveillance Software User Manual Regulatory Compliance FCC Compliance Statement All CBC cameras have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
