Wireless camera network system and wireless image capturing device

• US 20040263609A1
• Filed: 04/22/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Infrastructure Network Corporation
• Original Assignee: NTT Infrastructure Network Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Hideyuki, Nishiwaki, Ken, Otsuki, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US10/829,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20040263609A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

Wireless camera network system and a wireless image capture device that can carry out stable image monitoring over a long time interval even outdoors. In a wireless image capturing device, power is input from a plurality of external power devices that supply drive power for an image capturing unit and a transmitter-receiver unit from a plurality of power input units, the image capturing unit captures images, the transmitter-receiver unit transmits the images via a wireless telecommunication network, and the server connected via the wireless image capturing device and the wireless telecommunication network receive the images.

Claims

1. A wireless camera network system comprising:

at least one wireless image capturing device having an image capturing device that captures images, a transmission device that transmits the images captured by the image capturing device via a wireless telecommunication network, and a plurality of power input devices that receive power from a plurality of external power devices for the image capturing device and the transmission device; and

a server connected to the wireless image capturing device via the wireless telecommunication network, for receiving images transmitted by the wireless image capturing device.

2. A wireless camera network system according to claim 1, wherein the server associates the received images with the wireless image capturing device to write into a predetermined memory device.

3. A wireless camera network system according to claim 1, wherein:

the wireless image capturing device has a location information acquisition device that acquires location information having latitude and longitude information for an imaged location by communicating with a GPS satellite;

the transmission device transmits the location information acquired by the image information acquisition device via the wireless telecommunication network; and

the server receives the location information from the wireless image capturing device, and associates the received image with the received location information to write into a predetermined memory device.

4. A wireless camera network system according to claim 2, wherein:

the memory device stores facility information associated with at least one predetermined wireless image capturing device or with predetermined location information; and

the server associates the received image with at least one wireless image capturing device or the location information, and further associates the facility information to write into the memory device.

5. A wireless image capturing device comprising:

an image capturing device for capturing images;

a transmission device for transmitting images captured by the image capturing device via a wireless telecommunication network; and

a plurality of power input devices for inputting power from a plurality of external power devices that supply the power for the image capturing device and the transmission device.

6. A wireless image capturing device according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of power input devices comprise power interfaces for different input voltages, respectively.

7. A wireless image capturing device according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of power input devices comprise power interfaces for different input voltages and power interfaces for a plurality of identical input voltages.