John, not once have I criticised Axis Product. I admire what they have done in the industry as the pioneers of IP Video and they make excellent products.
The point I am making if you to read into the sentiment of my post is that all companies in our industry have copied ideas off others. By pointing out that it is only the Chinese that have done it is misleading. The entire industry copied Axis when they released their own IP Cameras... Undisclosed 4 states below that who will sue for intellectual property. Does that mean that Axis sues the entire industry because they made IP cameras?
You state yourself John that "just like it is fair game for Axis to release multi-imagers even though Arecont did it first."
Go back and read any of my posts, you will see that I never criticise another manufacturer, our industry is too small for that I have also never hidden my identity when posting, I am happy to own my comments. However pointing out differences or instances where others may have developed products based on the ideas of other companies is not criticism.
You ask what we have done that is innovative?
Our intelligent traffic solutions are quite innovative where we can use camera intelligence to monitor traffic flows and queue lengths and adjust traffic signals with our own traffic light controllers to optimise traffic flow and then tie that in with cameras that con enforce illegal parking, lane changes and speeding and then do that on a city wide scale. I do not know of other CCTV companies that do that.
We recently won a new product award at The ASIAL show in Australia for best new product with our extended POE range, from what I know 800m is the longest in the industry and there is obviously some pretty good design that has gone into that.
http://www.securityworldmarket.com/int/News/Business-News/dahua-epoe-nvr-won-2017-security-best-new-product-award#.WbsSPsgjGUk
We have won a number of Red Dot design awards.
We are far from being the perfect company, but we are improving very rapidly and we make some very good product some of which are totally our own ideas ;)
John, I would suggest you try to arrange a visit to our innovation centre in Hangzhou... you may be surprised.