PTZ control of the camera can be regulated with the mouse in the Camera window corresponding to the given Camera.
| To control PTZ device using the mouse, enable the PTZ control panel. To enable the PTZ control panel, left-click on it. |
Default functions supported by the mouse PTZ controls are given in the following table. In Intellect 4.9.5 and later versions the PTZ control mechanism has been changed.
New control features are used by default and their description is given in the New function column. If the previous PTZ control features are to be used, then set 0 value for the TelemetryMouseAlternative registry key – see Registry keys reference guide.
Action | Old function | New function | |
|---|---|---|---|
Click the left mouse button | Camera's objective stop | - | |
| Press and hold the left mouse button moving the pointer | Re-focus the camera lens to the mouse pointer direction | Re-focus the camera lens to the mouse pointer direction (see the figure). Re-focus speed depends on how far the pointer is from center of video marked with a cross. The faster the speed, the longer the arrow. Camera lens can be re-focused in continuous and discrete modes. By default the discrete mode is in use - camera lens is refocused in 8 directions: up, down, right, left, up-left, up-right, down-right and down-left. The Continous mode is enabled using the ContinousMode registry key – see Registry keys reference guide. The ContinousMode is to be supported by the camera. | |
Click the middle mouse button | Automatic re-focus of the camera objective to the area of the mouse click (Point&Click). Positioning is with the minimum rate that does not depend on the value specififed on the Universal PTZ control panel. This rate can be changed in tweaki.exe tool, but it can affect the functionality performance (see Intellect software package. Administrator's guide, The settings panel of the Telemetry section).
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Click the right mouse button and Ctrl | |||
| Double-click the left mouse button and Ctrl | Point&Click by means of Intellect software package algorithms with maximum possible rate. | ||
Click and hold the left mouse button with pressing the Ctrl key | Point&click processed by the camera driver triggers in equal time intervals. Time intervals are specified with the help of TelemetryPointAndClickDelay registry key (detail information about it see in the Registry keys reference guide section. | ||
Left hold | Lens zooming in | - | |
Right hold | Lens zooming out | - | |
Select area by moving the pointer with holding pressed the right mouse button and Ctrl button
| Increasing and centering image in selected area (AreaZoom). Note. The action will be performed only if the AreaZoom functional is supported by camera driver and integrated to the Intellect software. | ||
Left click combined with Shift | Focus In | ||
Right click combined with Shift | Focus Out | ||
| Scrolling up | Digital zooming in | Lens zooming in | |
| Scrolling down | Digital zooming out | Lens zooming out | |
The above mouse functions are not supported in the Camera windows, corresponding to the surveillance cameras without PTZ. |