Year
1990
Abstract
The Video Surveillance Unit (VSU) has been designed to provide a flexible, easy to operate video surveillance and recording capability for permanent rack-mounted installations. The system consists of a single rack-mountable chassis and a camera enclosure. The chassis contains two 8 mm video recorders, a color monitor, system controller board, a video authentication verifier module (VAVM) and a universal power supply. A separate camera housing contains a solid state camera and a video authentication processor module (VAPM). Through changes in the firmware in the system, the recorders can be commanded to record at the same time, on alternate time cycles, or sequentially. Each recorder is capable of storing up to 26,000 scenes consisting of 6 to 8 video frames. The firmware can be changed to provide fewer recordings with more frames per scene. The modular video authentication system provides verification of the integrity of the video transmission line between the camera and the recording chassis.