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Glossary
ActiveX
Microsoft Corporation’s technology to reconfigure software into components and to
get them embedded in other programs. In this manual, ActiveX means the software
component that serves to display images from the network camera/encoder.
AES (Automatic Electronic Shutter)
The electronic shutter function of solid-state image pickup device automatically
controls the device output level according to the incident light amount.
If an
-equipped lens is in use, keep the AES function disabled.
AGC (Automatic Gain Control)
The amplifier gain is automatically regulated to keep the output at a constant level.
Auto iris
An automatic lens iris control mechanism. Be careful not to use this together with the
function.
Backlight compensation
A function to correct, in shooting against the lights, the phenomenon in which the auto
iris function would react to a lighter zone and a subject would look dark.
BMP (Bit MaP) format
An image format adopted on Microsoft Windows.
CSV (Comma Separated Values) format
A format by which data is expressed separated with commas. Displayable with
Microsoft Excel, OpenOffcie.org Calc, etc. This is a text data that can also be
displayed on Notepad and other editors.
DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System)
A system to dynamically correspond an IP address to a device’s host name, when the
IP address allocated to the device is variable.