Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 168)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 168 Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
Symbols & Numeric
360° Lens
A lens that allows the creation and viewing of
360º panoramic images.
A
Alarm
Incident defined on surveillance system to
trigger an alarm in the Smart Client. Triggered
alarms will, if your organization uses the
feature, be displayed in views containing alarm
lists and/or maps.
Archiving
The automatic transfer of recordings from a
camera’s default database to another location.
This way, the amount of recordings you are
able to store will not be limited by the size of
the camera’s default database. Archiving also
makes it possible to back up your recordings
on backup media of your choice.
Aspect Ratio
Height/width relationship of an image.
AVI
A popular file format for video. Files in this
format carry the .avi file extension.
B
Bookmark
An important point in a video recording,
marked and optionally annotated so that you
and your colleagues will easily be able to find it
later.
C
Camera Navigator
A Smart Client feature that allows you to see
all your cameras in relation to each other, for
example, as they are laid out according to a
floor plan. Using the Camera Navigator, you
can navigate from one camera to the next from
a single view.
Carousel
A particular position for viewing video from
several cameras, one after the other, in a
Smart Client view (on page 173).
Codec
A technology for compressing and
decompressing audio and video data, for
example in an exported AVI (on page 168) file.
D
Deadzone
A deadzone determines how much a joystick
handle should be allowed to move before
information is sent to the system. Ideally, a
joystick handle should be completely vertical
when not used, but many joystick handles lean
at a slight angle. When joysticks are used for
controlling PTZ (on page 172) cameras, even
a slightly slanting joystick handle could cause
PTZ cameras to move when it is not required.
Being able to configure deadzones is therefore
often desirable.
DirectX
A Windows extension providing advanced
multimedia capabilities.
E
Event
A predefined incident occurring on the
surveillance system; used by the surveillance