Crime prevention assisting apparatus and radio terminal apparatus

• US 20050128075A1
• Filed: 01/04/2005
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Aota, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,358,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.100
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

The invention relates to a crime prevention assisting apparatus which can work with a radio terminal apparatus manipulated by a subscriber or the like of a mobile communication system in order to prevent crime as well as to a radio terminal apparatus that has a function of crime prevention and is used for providing a communication service to the subscriber. An object of the invention is to utilize existing hardware effectively and to prevent crime at a low cost. The apparatuses according to the invention make a transition to a special state when a particular event has occurred, and issue only in the special state an alarm to the effect that a crime prevent measure is taken, and originates a call automatically in response to a prescribed manipulation or requests a radio terminal apparatus to originate a call.

Claims

1. A crime prevention assisting apparatus comprising:

a communication interface section that forms a communication link between the crime prevention assisting apparatus and a radio terminal apparatus accommodated in a mobile communication network;

a man-machine interface section that assists said radio terminal apparatus to man-machine interface; and

a control section that causes said radio terminal apparatus to make a transition to a special state upon occurrence of a particular event, in cooperation with said radio terminal apparatus via said communication interface section, and issues, only in the special state, an alarm via said man-machine interface section and requests said radio terminal apparatus to make call origination in response to a prescribed manipulation to said man-machine interface section, the alarm signifying that a crime prevention measure is taken.

2. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

when said radio terminal apparatus makes a transition to the special state, said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to notify a prescribed communication apparatus of the transition via said mobile communication network.

3. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the particular event is when a time is in a preset time slot.

4. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the particular event is when a value of binary information supplied externally via said man-machine interface section is a particular value.

5. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a positioning section that determines a position of a local station, wherein

the particular event is when the position determined by said positioning section is in a preset area.

6. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the particular event is when a time is in a preset period and the position determined by said positioning section provided in said radio terminal apparatus is in a preset area.

7. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said control section acquires the position upon occurrence of the particular event, and requests said radio terminal apparatus to inform, of the position, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

8. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

said control section acquires a position that is determined by said positioning section at a time when it requests said ratio terminal apparatus to make the call origination, and requests said radio terminal apparatus to inform, of the position, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

9. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a storing section storing therein in advance an identifier of said radio terminal apparatus or of a subscriber and information representing a request for help, wherein

said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to send the information stored in said storing section to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

10. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section acquires a log relating to the man-machine interfacing, and requests said radio terminal apparatus to inform, of the log, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

11. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section has a readable storage area, and acquires information via said man-machine interface section when requesting said radio terminal apparatus to make the call origination, and holds the information in said storage area.

12. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section has a readable storage area and acquires pieces of information via said man-machine interface section, and holds a piece of the pieces of information in said storage area, the piece of the pieces of information being the latest among ones acquired before said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to make the call origination.

13. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section acquires pieces of information via said man-machine interface section, and requests said radio terminal apparatus to send a piece of the pieces of information to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination, the piece of the pieces of information being the latest among ones acquired before the call origination.

14. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section acquires information via said man-machine interface section upon occurrence of the particular event, and requests said radio terminal apparatus to send the acquired information to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

15. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to send the acquired information to the called party as a mail.

16. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

said control section performs processing of sending the acquired information to the called party with a priority over processing relating to the man-machine interfacing.

17. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

the pieces of information acquired via said man-machine interface section are one or both of a sound and an image.

18. The crime prevention assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to maintain, in a hands-free mode, a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

19. A radio terminal apparatus comprising:

a radio interface section that accesses a mobile communication network via a radio transmission path;

a control section that performs a channel control in cooperation with said radio interface section; and

a man-machine interface section that cooperates with said radio interface section under said control section to man-machine interface to provide a communication service via said mobile communication network, wherein

said control section makes a transition to a special state upon occurrence of a particular event, issues, only in the special state, an alarm via said man-machine interface section, and makes call origination automatically in response to a prescribed manipulation to said man-machine interface section, the alarm signifying that a crime prevention measure is taken

20. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

when making a transition to the special state, said control section notifies a prescribed communication apparatus of the transition via said radio interface section and said mobile communication network.

21. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the particular event is when a time is in a preset time slot.

22. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

the particular event is when a value of binary information supplied externally via said man-machine interface section is a particular value.

23. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising

a positioning section that determines a position of a local station, wherein

the particular event is when the position determined by said positioning section is in a preset area.

24. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 23, wherein

said control section acquires the position that is determined by said positioning section when making a transition to the special state, and informs, of the position, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

25. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 23, wherein

said control section acquires the position that is determined by said positioning section when making the call origination, and informs, of the position, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

26. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising

a storing section storing therein in advance an identifier of a local station or of a subscriber and information representing a request for help, wherein

said control section sends the information stored in said storing section to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

27. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section acquires a log relating to the man-machine interfacing, and informs, of the log, a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

28. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section has a readable storage area, and acquires information via said man-machine interface section when making the call origination and holds the acquired information in said storage area.

29. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section has a readable storage area, and acquires pieces of information via said man-machine interface section and holds a piece of the pieces of information in said storage area, the piece of the pieces of information being the latest among ones acquired before the call origination.

30. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section acquires pieces of information via said man-machine interface section, and sends a piece of the pieces of information to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination, the piece of the pieces of information being the latest among ones acquired before the call origination.

31. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section acquires information via said man-machine interface section when making the call origination, and sends the acquired information to a called party of a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

32. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 31, wherein

said control section sends the acquired information to the called party as a mail.

33. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 31, wherein

said control section performs processing of sending the acquired information to the called party with a priority over processing relating to the man-machine interfacing.

34. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 29, wherein

the pieces of information acquired via said man-machine interface section are one or both of a sound and an image.

35. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein

said control section requests said radio terminal apparatus to maintain, in a hands-free mode, a complete call that has occurred in response to the call origination.

36. The radio terminal apparatus according to claim 19, wherein:

said control section comprises a first control section that performs the channel control; and

a second control section that performs processing other than the channel control in cooperation with said first control section via a communication link; and

said man-machine interface section comprises a first man-machine interface section that man-machine interfaces under said first control section to provide the communication service; and

a second man-machine interface section that assists the man-machine interfacing under said second control section and that is detachable together with said second control section from a set of said first man-machine interface section, said first control section, and said radio interface section.