Control system for security apparatus and control method using same

• US 20060005045A1
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (Funai Electric Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Nakase, Takafumi
• Application Number:
  US11/150,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20060005045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/190
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

A security apparatus and method automatically set and cancel a crime-prevention monitoring mode, while preventing unauthorized control. The security apparatus includes a portable terminal, carried by a person allowed to enter and exit a predetermined area, for transmitting address data identifying the person, an address data memory 34 for registering the address data, a receiver 10 for receiving the address data at the entrance to the predetermined area, a setting circuit 2 for selectively setting the crime-prevention monitoring mode, and a camera 11 for obtaining image data of the person passing through the entrance. A controller starts the camera when reception of the address data is started, and stops the photographing when the reception of the address data is ended. A comparison circuit compares image data stored in an image data memory with image data obtained when the address data is received and cancels the crime-prevention monitoring mode when a match occurs.

Claims

1. A control system for a security apparatus, comprising:

a portable terminal carried by a person of interest allowed to enter and exit a predetermined area, for transmitting address data for specifying the person, a transmissible area of the terminal being set in a narrow range;

address data storage means for previously storing and registering the address data therein;

reception means for receiving the address data when the person carrying the portable terminal enters and/or exits an entrance located in the predetermined area, an receivable area of the reception means being set in a narrow range around the entrance;

setting means for selectively setting the security apparatus for monitoring crime prevention in the predetermined area, in a crime-prevention monitoring mode;

image data obtaining means for obtaining image data by photographing the person passing through the entrance;

control means for causing the image data obtaining means to start photographing when the reception of the address data is started by the address data reception means, and for causing the image data obtaining means to finish photographing when the reception of the address data is ended;

storage means for storing therein first image data of the person obtained by the image data obtaining means when the address data of the person is received while the security apparatus is not set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode, in relation to'"'"'the address data;

comparison means for comparing said first image data corresponding to the address data and stored in the storage means with second image data of the person obtained by the image data obtaining means when the address data of the person is received while the security apparatus is set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode; and

processing means for causing the setting means to cancel the crime-prevention monitoring mode of the security apparatus when a match occurs as a result of comparison between the image data performed by the comparison means.

2. A control system for a security apparatus, comprising:

a portable terminal carried by a person of interest allowed to enter and exit a predetermined area, for transmitting address data for specifying the person;

address data storage means for previously storing and registering the address data therein;

address data reception means for receiving the address data when the person carrying the portable terminal enters and/or exits an entrance located in the predetermined area;

setting means for selectively setting the security apparatus for monitoring crime prevention in the predetermined area, in a crime-prevention monitoring mode;

image data obtaining means for obtaining image data by photographing the person passing through the entrance when the address data is received by the address data reception means;

storage means for storing therein first image data of the person obtained by the image data obtaining means when the address data of the person is received while the security apparatus is not set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode, in relation to the address data;

comparison means for comparing said first image data corresponding to the address data and stored in the storage means with second image data of the person obtained by the image data obtaining means when the address data of the person is received while the security apparatus is set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode; and

processing means for causing the setting means to cancel the crime-prevention monitoring mode of the security apparatus when a match occurs as a result of comparison between the image data performed by the comparison means.

3. A method for controlling a security apparatus, comprising the steps of:

storing and registering address data which is given to a person of interest allowed to enter and exit a predetermined area, in an address data memory;

receiving the address data when the person carrying a portable terminal for transmitting the address data to an area in a narrow range exits an entrance located in the predetermined area;

photographing the person going out by operating a camera after confirming the registration of the address data in the address data memory when the address data is received while the security apparatus for monitoring crime prevention in the predetermined area is in a cancel state of a crime-prevention monitoring mode;

finishing the photographing to store first image data obtained by the photographing with the camera, in an image data memory when the reception of the address data is ended;

judging whether all the persons of interest have gone out or not;

controlling the security apparatus to switch from the cancel state of the crime-prevention monitoring mode to a setting state thereof based on the judgment;

obtaining second image data of the person with the camera when the address data of the person is received near the entrance while the security apparatus is set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode;

comparing said second image data of the person obtained with the first image data corresponding to the address data and stored in the image data memory; and

canceling the crime-prevention monitoring mode of the security apparatus when a match occurs as a result of comparison between the image data.

4. A method for controlling a security apparatus, comprising the steps of:

storing and registering address data which is given to a person of interest allowed to enter and exit a predetermined area, in an address data memory;

receiving the address data when the person carrying a portable terminal for transmitting the address data exits an entrance located in the predetermined area;

obtaining first image data by photographing the person going out by operating a camera after confirming the registration of the address data in the address data memory when the address data is received while the security apparatus for monitoring crime prevention in the predetermined area is in a cancel state of a crime-prevention monitoring mode;

storing the first image data obtained in an image data memory;

judging whether all the persons of interest have gone out or not;

controlling the security apparatus to switch from the cancel state of the crime-prevention monitoring mode to a setting state thereof based on the judgment;

obtaining second image data of the person with the camera when the address data of the person is received while the security apparatus is set in the crime-prevention monitoring mode;

comparing said second image data of the person obtained with the first image data corresponding to the address data and stored in the image data memory; and

canceling the crime-prevention monitoring mode of the security apparatus when a match occurs as a result of comparison between the image data.