Grass Valley Personal Locator System CameraMan User Manual

CameraMan

Personal Locator System

Installation and Operation Manual

LPMCPL13 Rev B
1998

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CameraMan®Personal Locator Camera System Installation and Operations Manual

Table Of Contents

I. Meet Your Personal Locator

? Congratulations on your Purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

? Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

? Personal Locator System Components

• Personal Locator Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

• Chairperson Locator Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

? Locator Keypad Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

II. Your Personal Locator

? the Addresses and Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

? Start-Up and Set-Up

• Start-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

• Setting Up the Videoconference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

III. Use Your Personal Locator

? Using the Keypad Controls

• Using the Back Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

• Using the Front Controls (Chairperson and Personal Locator Keypads). . 7

• Using the Front Controls (Chairperson Locator Keypads) . . . . . . . . . . . 7

• Programming/Changing the MY TURN and GROUP buttons. . . . . . . . . 8

IV. Appendices

? A: s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

? B: Re-Orienting the Pan Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

? C: Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

? D: Typical System Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The manufacturer reserves the right to change and warranty at any time without
notice or obligation.

Page 1

Meet Your Personal Locator Camera System

Congratulations On Your Purchase

Your new CameraMan Personal Locator Camera System will help make your videoconferences more dynamic and effective by
giving you and your videoconferencing participants the ability to appear, and be heard on screen whenever you desire to
participate in the conversation.

This manual covers the connection, conguration and use of your new Personal Locator
Camera System. Along with basic pan, tilt, zoom, and IMAGE control of your CameraMan
camera, the Personal Locator System includes the Personal Locator Keypads and a
Chairperson Locator Keypad, which provides each participant with distributed preset control.

This manual is designed to be used in conjunction with the installation and operations manual
that came with your 1-CCD or 3-CCD CameraMan Camera. If you have questions about the
installation, conguration or use of the camera, refer to that manual.

You’ll see three icons in this manual:

This icon alerts you to important instructions in the operation and maintenance of
your Personal Locator System.

This icon alerts you to tips or noteworthy suggestions in the operation, use or
maintenance of your Personal Locator System

This icon refers you to the 1-CCD or 3-CCD General Pan/Tilt Camera installations
and operations manual that came with your camera.

Product Description

The CameraMan Personal Locator Camera System is a robotic camera system with distributed
preset control used in videoconferencing applications. The Personal Locator Camera System
consists of the CameraMan Camera, 3 wireless RF Personal Locator Keypads, and 1 wireless RF
Chairperson Locator Keypad.

Note: If you have purchased this as an upgrade, it will include all components except
the camera.

This system gives each videoconferencing participant the power to be instantly identified by the
camera with the touch of a MY TURN button on individually controlled keypads. When the MY
TURN button is pressed, the CameraMan automatically zooms, pans and tilts to focus on that
participant. The Locator Keypads also provide each videoconference participant with camera
control capabilities, eliminating the need for a single camera operator. The system can
accommodate up to 99 Personal Locator Keypads.

The 1-CCD Personal Locator Systems are also equipped with SHAREVIEW, a unique technology
that allows two participants to share the camera view. Once activated, the camera will
automatically calculate the proper view for the active participants.

Your Personal Locator Camera System should
include these components:

• One 1-CCD or 3-CCD Chairperson Locator Keypad

• Three 1-CCD or 3-CCD Personal Locator Keypads

• One Personal Locator Camera System Operations Manual

• One Personal Locator Quick Reference Card

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CameraMan®Personal Locator Camera System Installation and Operations Manual

Personal Locator System Components

Personal Locator Keypad

The Personal Locator Keypad gives each videoconference participant distributed preset control.
So at any time during the meeting, individuals can choose from:

Group Button– A wide-angle shot of the group, or SHAREVIEW, or

MY TURN™ Button– A close-up shot of themselves The MY TURN

feature gives distributed camera control so that each participant can easily
control how they are viewed
on the screen.

Chairperson Locator Keypad

The Chairperson Locator Keypad provides the same Group, and MY TURN™ shot features as
the Personal Locator Keypads, but also gives the chairperson, or meeting leader, override
capabilities with the following buttons:

LOCK Button– When pressed, the meeting leader can “lock-out” the
other participants from using their MY TURN buttons and controlling the
camera

UNLOCK Button– Returns control back to the other videoconference
participants.

Note: Your Personal Locator System includes three Personal Locator Keypads and one
Chairperson Locator Keypad

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Meet Your Personal Locator Camera System

Locator Keypad Controls

▼ Preset Number Rotary Switches– Used to assign

a distributed Location Preset to each the keypad.

▼

Zoom (IN/OUT)- Used to adjust the

tightness of the camera view.

▼

PAN/TILT- Used to

control the camera’s
up/down, and left/right
movement.

▼ Base Unit Address Rotary Switch– Selects

which CameraMan Camera the keypad will
control.

▼

Image (Bright/Dark)- Used to adjust the

brighteness of the picture.

▼

autoIMAGE- Used to enable the camera to

automatically adjust the image setting to
compensate for varying light levels.

▼

FOCUS (3-CCD Keypads only)- Used to adjust

the focal point of the camera.

Note: 1-CCD cameras are auto-focus, so the
keypads do not have manual focus buttons.

▼ Battery Compartment– Takes two N-Size batteries with

a lifespan of four to six months with average use.

Note: The keypad will indicate that the battery is
low with a three second continuous beep when any
of the buttons are pressed. At that time, the
batteries should be replaced.