Summary

As defined in Recommendation ITU-T F.735.1, software-defined cameras can provide the basic hardware service application programming interfaces (APIs) and the common software service APIs for application developers; these APIs are called "service-oriented interfaces". Through these APIs the upper layer applications can obtain raw video, pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ), common software and hardware resource to realize video intelligent analysis and non-intelligent businesses. Recommendation ITU-T F.735.2 specifies the architecture and service-oriented interface protocols for software-defined cameras, including functional architecture of software-defined camera system, service-oriented interface message protocol structure, and service-oriented interface protocols.