Home security video system using internet technique

• US 20020118107A1
• Filed: 11/20/2001
• Published: 08/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP PTE Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP PTE Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Murata, Koh, Yamamoto, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 7,034,681 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence

Abstract

A security system includes several camera devices and a communication means unit in sites at which monitoring is required by the user. The several camera devices monitor these sites constantly. Camera devices have motion detecting functions and provide unusual status reporting signals and the necessary image information to communications device only when the movements of an intruder have been detected. Communication means communicates with and is connected to the server means which serves as the information center using the internet line only when unusual signals have been received. At this time, information from camera devices is also sent to server means. Server means automatically notifies the user and other persons by a method that the user has selected in advance. The user who has received notification can access server means and can confirm the detailed information regarding the abnormality as images.

Claims

1. Security system for reporting of intruder detection place through a communication line, said information being obtained from a camera device fixed in a specified place wherein:

several camera devices are installed for monitoring said specified place;

said system has a communications device that can be connected to said camera devices and said communication line including an internet line, and a server means to be connected to said communication device through said internet line means;

said camera devices constantly monitor for intruders in said specified place, where said camera device can establish a connection with said communication device when said intruder is detected and send an unusual status reporting signal and image data to said communication device; and

said communication device is constructed so that said communication device establishes communication with said server means only when said communication device has received said unusual status reporting signals, and collects said image data received in specified units to send to said server means.

2. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein said communications device is constructed such that units of said image data corresponding to said specified place are sent to said server means, and said image data are automatically deleted.

3. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein the units of said image data in a specified place include several items of image data obtained from one of said multiple-camera devices at different times.

4. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein the interconnections between said camera devices and said communication device are formed by a power source line or by wireless means.

5. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein said server means provides image information based on said image data to a specified web site.

6. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein said server means reports to a terminal that has been registered in advance when said image data has been received.

7. Security system as described in claim 6, wherein said reporting is performed using the internet line means.

8. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein said camera devices can also detect voice information, combine voice data based on said voice information with said image data, and transmit combined data.

9. Security system as described in claim 1, wherein said server means includes a web server means and a data base server unit.