Sony SNC-VB600B manual

Network Camera User’s Gu ide Software Version 1 .2 Before opera ting the u nit, pleas e read thi s manual thoroughl y and retain it for future reference. SNC-VB600/VB600 B/VB630/VM600/ VM600B/VM601/ VM601B/VM630/VM6 31 A-EAJ-100- 12 (1) © 2012 Sony Corporation[...]

2 T abl e of Cont ents T able of Cont ents Overvie w Fea tures ........... .................. ........................... .......... 3 How to Use Thi s User’ s Guide ........... ................... 4 System Requir ements .................................. .......... 4 Accessing t he Camera Us ing the W eb Bro wser ............ ...................[...]

Over vi ew F eatures 3 Overvie w Featur es • High-qua lity Full HD (1080P) r eal-time moni toring, up to 60 f ps. (SNC-VB 630/VM630/VM631 ) • High-quality SXGA (1280 × 1024) li ve images from camera can be mo nitored at a maximum frame rate of 60 fps. (SNC- VB600/VB630/VM600/VM60 1/ VM630/VM631) • Exmor CMOS sensor enables hi gh-qualit y ima[...]

Over vi ew How to Use This User’ s Guide / Syst em Requirements 4 How to Use This Use r’ s Guide This User’ s Guide explains ho w to operate the Netwo rk Camera from a computer . The User’ s Guide is designed to be read on the computer display . This secti on gi ves tips on maki ng the most of the User’ s Guide-read it before you oper ate[...]

Over vi ew Accessin g the Camera Usi ng the W eb Browse r 5 Accessing the Came ra Using the W eb Br owse r After the IP address has b een assigned to the ca mera, check tha t you can act ually access the camera u sing the W eb bro wser installe d on your computer . Use Internet Explorer as a W eb browser . 1 Start th e W eb browser on th e computer[...]

Over vi ew Basic Configu ration by th e Administr ator 6 Basic Configurat ion b y the Ad minist rator Y ou can moni tor the camera image b y logging i n with the init ial co ndit ions s et for th is netwo rk came ra. Y ou can also set v arious funct ions according to the in stalling position, net work condi tions or pu rpose of the camer a. W e rec[...]

Oper ating the Camera Administr ator and User 7 Operating the Camera This se ction expl ains how to monito r the image from the camera usin g your W eb browser (Internet E xplorer). The functions o f the camera should b e set by the Administra tor . For the setting of the came ra, see “ Administr ating the Camera” on page 1 4. Administrator and[...]

Oper ating the Camera Logging i n to Syst em 8 Logging in to Sys tem Logging in as a user 1 Start the W eb bro wser on your c o mputer and t ype the IP add ress of the ca mera you want to monitor . The vie wer is displayed. Display sample: T wo types of vie wer are a va ilable: Acti veX vie wer and Plu g-in free vie wer . Note If the main vie wer d[...]

Oper ating the Camera Configura tion of Main Vie wer 9 Configurat ion of Main Vie wer Thi s sec tio n expl ains the fu nctio ns of the pa rts a nd controls of the main vi ew er . For a de tailed expl anation on each part o r control, see the specif ied pages. Main v iew er us ing Act iveX vie wer Main me nu View er Displays the Acti veX vie wer or [...]

Oper ating the Camera Configur ation of Main Vie wer 10 Capture Click to capt ure a still image sh ot by th e camera and to store i t in the com puter . Click to open th e fold er to be saved. Note In the case of W indows VIS T A or W indows 7, if “Enable Protec ted Mode” is check ed in Control Panel -Internet Option-Securi ty , still images ca[...]

Oper ating the Camera Configura tion of Main Vie wer 11 Plug-in free vie wer Main vi ewer using Plu g-in fr ee viewer Display sample: Monitor screen There are t wo modes for on-screen pan /tilt/zoom operati on using a mo use: Area zoom mode a nd V ector dragging mo de. A control bar is d isplayed on t he screen. In the Are a zoom mo de, click ing w[...]

Oper ating the Camera Configur ation of Main Vie wer 12 Contro lling via the contr ol panel (Operation com mon to Area zoom mode and V ector dragging mode) Y ou can opera te the camera direct ion and zoom b y using the co ntrol pa nel fo r the mo nitor im age cu rrently displayed. Pan/Tilt cont rol Click the arr ow b u tton in the di rectio n in wh[...]

Oper ating the Camera Switching T ransmission Mode 13 Switching T ransmission Mode Y ou can chan ge the transmission mod e for video/audio data. This func tion can be used when the video codec mode is set to H.264 and the Acti veX vie wer is used. Note The func tion may no t operate cor rectly if you use personal fir ew all softw are or anti virus [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Basic Op erations of the Administr ator Menu 14 Administrating the Camera This se ction expl ains how to set the functi ons of th e camera by t he Administrator . For det ails about mon itoring the camer a image, see “Operating t he Camera” on p age 7. This section e xplains the basic operations and each option o f t[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Configuring the Sys tem — System Menu 15 Network Displays the Network menu for setting the net work connectio n. (“Conf iguring the Ne twork — Network Menu” on page 23). Securit y Displa ys the S ecurity menu for set ting the login u ser name and passwo rd to specify which compu ter(s) can connect to t he camera.[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Con fig uri ng th e Syst em — Syst em M enu 16 hour:minutes: seconds), and dd-mm- yyyy hh:mm: ss (day-month-year ho ur:minutes:seconds). Adjust Select ho w to set the day and time. Keep curren t setting: Select i f you do not need to set the date and t ime. Synchr onize with PC: Sel ect if you want to synchronize the c[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Configuring the Sys tem — System Menu 17 Select On when you i nstall the camera on a rack, etc. Note Pri vacy mask positions and mot ion detec tion areas, etc., will not be inv erted, e ven if the On/Off setting of the in verted image is switched . T o in vert the im age, make the setting ag ain. OK/Cancel See “Butt [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Came ra Imag e and A udio — Video / A udio Menu 18 Setting the Camera Image an d A udio — Vi deo / A udio Men u When you cl ick in the Admin istrator menu, th e V ideo / Audio menu appears. Use this menu to set th e functi ons of the camera. The V ideo / Audio menu c onsists of the fol lo wing tabs: SNC-V[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Camera Imag e and Au dio — Video / A udio Menu 19 Contrast Set the con trast. OK/Cancel See “Butt ons common to ev ery menu” on page 14. Focus T ab — Adjusting th e Focus (SNC-VB600/VB630 onl y) Prev iew s creen Prev ie w the image and adjust t he focus. Easy Focus Adjust the fo cus posit ion. Click t[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Came ra Imag e and A udio — Video / A udio Menu 20 “fps” is a u nit indicati ng the numbe r of frames transmitt ed per second . The frame rate of JPEG image c an be changed b y the setting of Image quality . Bit rate Set the bit rate o f H.264 ima ge tran smission fo r a line. When the bit rate is se t [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Camera Imag e and Au dio — Video / A udio Menu 21 Set the react ion time of ch anges in br ightness. Status Displays t he day/night f unction status. OK/Cancel See “Butt ons common to ev ery menu” on page 14. Priv acy ma sking T ab Using the p riv acy masking en ables you t o hide images by maski ng spe[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Came ra Imag e and A udio — Video / A udio Menu 22 Alignment Set the hor izontal posit ion of the superi mposed te xt. OK/Cancel See “Buttons common to e ver y menu” on page 14. Streaming T ab Use t his ta b to s et th e ite ms for the t ransm ission by unicast or multi cast. Unicast st reaming Specify [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Configuring t he Netw ork — Network Menu 23 RT SP mu lticas t video port number 1, 2, 3 Specify the H.264 video transmission po rt number used for R TSP multica st strea ming. The default sett ing is 61000. Speci fy an e ven n umber from 1024 to 6 5534. T wo port numbers (the number specif ied here an d an odd number w[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Con fig uri ng th e Netwo r k — Ne twor k Me nu 24 The IP add ress, subnet ma sk, defau lt gate way are assigned au tomatically . T o obtain DNS serv er addresses automatically , select Obtain DNS server address automatically . T o set manually , deselect Obtain DNS server address automatically , and type the address i[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting th e Security — Security Menu 25 Settin g the Se curity — Security Menu When y ou click in the Ad ministra tor men u, the User tab appears. User T ab Set the user na mes and password s of Administrato r and up to 9 kinds of users (User 1 to User 9), and the access right of each user . Administ rator , User 1 [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the PTZ control — PTZ control Menu / Set ting the Sen sor input/Camer a tampering dete c tion/Mo tion detect ion — Acti on inpu t Menu 26 Setting the PTZ con tr ol — PTZ co ntrol Menu When yo u click in the Ad ministrato r menu, the PTZ control menu appears. PTZ contr ol T ab Solid PTZ Select On to enable t[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Settin g the Sensor input /Camera ta mper ing detect ion/Motion detection — Action inp ut Menu 27 Sensor input T ab — Set the sensor input 1/2 Sensor input mode Set the d irection of the detected input signal to the sensor input terminal o f the camera. Nor mal ly ope n: Detects the a larm when the sensor input i s s[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Sensor inp ut/Camera tamp ering detecti on/Motion de tection — Actio n input Menu 28 Notes • If A u tomatic configuration is enabled in the Local Area Net work (LAN ) s etting s o f Inte rne t Ex plor er, the image may not be displa yed. In that case, disable A utoma tic configuration and set the proxy se[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Settin g the Sensor input /Camera ta mper ing detect ion/Motion detection — Action inp ut Menu 29 Note The v ertex can be mov ed in an outw ard direction but cannot be mo ved to ward the inside of an area. Detec tion se nse Set the sensitivity of m otion detecti on. A value from 1 to 256 can be sp ecifi ed. Clicking R [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Sensor inp ut/Camera tamp ering detecti on/Motion de tection — Actio n input Menu 30 Intr usion This crit erion is for whether a mo ving object exists in the trigger area. Similar to an act iv e windo w , a trigger area can also b e mov ed and v ertex es can be mov ed/added o r deleted. Pa s s i n g Edit th[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Settin g the Sensor input /Camera ta mper ing detect ion/Motion detection — Action inp ut Menu 31 Tr i g g e r s p e e d Specify th e minimum and maximum speed s to be detected. • Min. speed a nd Max. speed can be specif ied within a scale of 100. • The blue mar ker for mi nimum speed cannot be set to the right of [...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Action output — Actio n output Men u 32 Setting the Ac tion output — Action ou tput Menu When you cl ick in the Admi nistrator menu, th e Action output men u appears. The Action output menu co nsists of the E xecution Condit ion, Mai l T ransfer , Alarm output and Edge Storage tabs. Execution Conditio n T[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting th e Action output — Action output Menu 33 The actual im age fi le name will be the spe cifi ed image f ile name with a suff ix and the e xtension .jpg. Suffix Select a suf fix to be added to the f ile name used when the e-mail is sent. None: The name of th e sent file will be the image file name. Date & ti[...]

Administ rating the Camer a Setting the Schedule — Schedule Menu 34 Note Maximum rec ording time v aries depending on the image size an d quality set ting in the V ideo / Audio menu. Recor d ing time Set the recordi ng time for the Pre-alarm image/ audio and Post al arm image/audio. Pre- alarm du ration T ype the recording t ime of the image/audi[...]

Other s Glos sary 35 Others Glossary ActiveX control A component prog ram object that can be used with web pages or oth er applicati on programs. T he technolog y for creating Act iv eX control is part of sof tware de veloped by Mi crosoft. Band width control T o limi t the amount o f tran smitt ed data. Bit rate The rate a t which dat a bits are t[...]

Other s Glos sary 36 Primary DNS server One of the D N S ser vers that ca n firs t re ply to a req ue st by conn ected de vices or other DNS servers. Pr o xy serv er A server or software that acts as an intermediary between a lo cal network and the Internet so tha t it can connect to t he Internet in place of a computer on a local networ k. Satur a[...]

Other s Inde x 37 Inde x Numeri cs 802.1X.................. ................. ......... 36 A Access log T ab ................ ............... 17 Action ............. ................. ............... 34 Action input Menu .......... ............... 26 Action output Menu ... ................. ... 32 Acti veX control ..................... ..... 5 , 35[...]

Other s Inde x 38 O OK button .................. ..................... 14 Overwrite................... ................. .... 33 P Pan/T ilt ...................... ............... 10 , 12 Passing............ ................. ............... 27 Passw ord............... ................. ......... 25 PC clock ............... ................. ......[...]

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