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Appendix One: GUI Introduction
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Appendix One
1. APPENDIX ONE
1.1 BASIC INTRODUCTION FOR OPERATORS
The Pelco CM9760-GUI (known as a “goo-ey”) has been designed to help make supervising a site quick,
easy, and efficient. This is done by means of a computer screen that has a picture (or map) of the site to be
supervised. Linked into the picture are a number of “hotspots”. For example, a picture of a camera on the
map could be a “hotspot” so that clicking on it with the mouse will automatically make the current video
footage from that camera come up on the computer screen.
Clicking with the mouse on these hotspots (also known as “buttons”) can automatically activate some CCTV
functions and procedures to take place; while other actions can be carried out quickly using the mouse.
For example, some of these functions and procedures may include
1. Clicking on a picture of a camera on the map
⇒ So that the picture from that camera comes up on a television monitor near the operator.
⇒ While the image is on a television monitor the operator is able to use the mouse to
pan/tilt/zoom/ and focus the camera.
⇒ Or a series of camera switches takes place automatically so that each of up to five cameras
situated all around the site will display their image for two seconds on the nearest monitor (the
operator can set the monitor and the time each camera is displayed)
⇒ Or bringing up that picture on the computer screen and being able to enlarge it, shrink it,
pan/tilt/zoom/focus it, freeze it, take a photo and keep the photo on file to be looked at again at
a later time.
2. Clicking on a part of the map which indicates that this is eg: the second story so a whole new map
comes on screen with a whole new array of cameras situated around the site to be checked out.
3. Alarms flashing on the screen so the operator can click on the nearest camera to see what’s going
on and then reset all the alarms if necessary.
4. Use the mouse to click on a button and set a VCR recording.
1.2 INTRODUCTORY NOTES FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR
The “Administrator/s” of the 9760 GUI (i.e., the person/s in charge of the operators using the 9760-GUI)
have available to them a wide range of options and choices when it comes to actually setting the system up
for everyday operation.
When the 9760 GUI is in Administrator mode all the Drop-Down menus are available. The main ones the
Administrator will use are the Map, Button, and Setup menus. For most of the procedures required in set-
ting up the system the menu options are easy to follow and the dialog boxes associated with the procedures
easily interpreted and user-friendly. (See the CM9760-GUI Manual Chapter Three {System Administrator
Programming} for full details.)