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Glossary
AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
The format developed by Microsoft Corporation to store
a moving image and audio in a file.
The data in the AVI file can easily be managed using
Microsoft Windows. Various CODECs can be applied
to the AVI data.
Bit rate
The rate at which data bits are transmitted.
CODEC (COmpressor DECompressor)
Software/hardware for coding/decoding video and audio
data.
fps (frame per second)
The unit of frame rate, indicating the number of frames
transmitted from the camera per second.
Frame
A moving image is composed of multiple still images. A
frame is one still image.
Frame rate
The number of frames of a moving image that can be
transmitted per second.
JPEG
Abbreviation for Joint Photographic Expert Group. The
still image compression technology or standards of the
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
and ITU-T. Popularly used as image compression format
on the Internet, etc.
MPEG4
Abbreviation for Moving Picture Experts Group4. One
of the MPEG standards for image compression format
aiming to transmit images at a high compression rate
with lower picture quality.
Pan & tilt
Pan is horizontal movement of the camera head. Tilt is
vertical movement of the camera head.
Proxy server
A server or software that acts as an intermediary
between a local network and the Internet so that it can
connect to the Internet in place of a computer on a local
network
Snapshot
A still image captured from a moving image of the
camera
TCP/IP
TCP is an abbreviation for Transmission Control
Protocol. A standard protocol used for the Internet
connection.