Telecommunication network-based remote surveillance method and system

• US 20040226046A1
• Filed: 05/05/2003
• Published: 11/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Multimedia & Telecom Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Multimedia & Telecom Corporation
• Inventors: Yeap, Wei-Seng, Weng, Shih-Hsiung
• Application Number:
  US10/428,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20040226046A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

A telecommunication network-based remote surveillance method and system with the capability of turning on a remote surveillance system via telecommunication networks receives and determines signals from telecommunication networks. The on/off control unit then transforms the signals into turn-on signals, checks the storage space, and turns on the surveillance system. The image capture device captures images and stores the captured images into storage. Finally, the image display device displays the images.

Claims

1. A telecommunication network-based remote surveillance method with the capability of turning on a remote surveillance system by telecommunication networks, comprising:

receiving and determining signals from telecommunication networks;

transforming the signals into turn-on signals;

receiving the turn-on signals and checking storage space;

turning on the surveillance system to capture images; and

storing the captured images into the storage device.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the said determining signals from telecommunication networks is to transform the signals into turn-on signals when the turn-on criterion is satisfied.

3. The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the said turn-on criterion is pre-specified.

4. The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the said turn-on criterion is the time that the telephone has rung.

5. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the authentication steps comprise:

requesting users to enter passwords;

comparing the input with stored passwords; and

determining the users'"'"' authorization according to the results of comparison.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the steps to check storage space comprise:

checking whether the storage runs out;

selecting a storage device according to the check results; and

configuring the selected storage device.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the steps to storing the images into the storage device is compressing the image by Frame Correlation Algorithm, comprising:

Capturing an image;

Comparing the image with the previous image; and

Cutting off the similar and storing the difference between these two image according to the result of the comparison.

8. A telecommunication network-based remote surveillance system which can turn on a remote surveillance system by telecommunication networks, comprising:

an on/off control unit receives and determines signals from telecommunication networks and transforms the signals into turn-on signals;

an image capture device which starts to capture images after receiving a turn-on signal from the on/off control unit;

an image storage device which checks whether the storage runs out, processes the capture images, and stores the processed images; and

an image display device (440) which displays the images.

9. The system in accordance with claim 8, wherein the system comprises an authentication unit to determines users'"'"' authorizations by comparing the input with stored passwords.

10. The system in accordance with claim 8, wherein the system comprises a configuration unit to receive the turn-on criterion specified by users.

11. The system in accordance with claim 8, wherein the system comprises an encoder and a decoder.