US 11,943,103 B2
Network system, network management apparatus, and network management method executing setting of a path and parameters
Tsuyoshi Nakao, Tokyo (JP); Shinjiro Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Hideyuki Imaida, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Nishikawa, Tokyo (JP); Tooru Amano, Tokyo (JP); Teruo Kajiura, Tokyo (JP); and Satoru Kamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/273,552
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/033402
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/054391, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-171182 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0211354 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0813 (2022.01); H04N 21/6332 (2011.01)
CPC H04L 41/0813 (2013.01) [H04N 21/6332 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network system, comprising:
a plurality of devices, wherein the plurality of devices includes video devices; and
a network management apparatus connected to the plurality of devices by an IP transmission line, wherein the network management apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to:
execute a first setting, based on user input via a user interface, of a transmission path to which at least some of the plurality of devices are connected, wherein remaining ones of the plurality of devices are not connected to any path to the network management apparatus and thereby not connected to the transmission path, the first setting determining which of the plurality of devices are connected to the transmission path by changing settings of a network switch,
execute a second setting of parameters regarding control of the at least some connected devices, without executing setting of parameters for the remaining ones of the plurality of devices that are not connected to the transmission path, and
change a 4K and HD setting or change an image quality setting through setting of the parameters.