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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Kenichiro Sugimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Haraguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenichiro Sugimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Haraguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a monitoring system, a plurality of monitoring devices for performing a sequence operation of sequentially switching images output from a plurality of cameras are connected. Each of the monitoring devices includes: an address information collection unit configured to collect address information of other cascaded monitoring devices when the sequence operation of an own device is started; a storage unit configured to store the address information collected by the address information collection unit; and a command transmission unit configured to determine a next address from the address information stored in the storage unit and to transmit a command for starting the sequence operation to one of the other monitoring devices which has the determined next address when the sequence operation of the own device is terminated.