Mobile imaging application, device architecture, service platform architecture and services
Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing still image and video image data in mobile devices and monitoring applications. Corresponding mobile device and camera architectures, and service platform architectures for transmitting, storing, editing and transcoding still images and video images over wireless and wired networks and viewing them on display-enabled devices are also provided.
1 . A method of deploying an imaging service platform comprising the steps of:
providing a transcoder application on a download server connected to a network;
signaling the network that the transcoder application is available for deployment; and
deploying the transcoder application over the network from the download server to a video gateway located on the network.
2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of automatically installing the deployed transcoder application on the video gateway.