EYEHOLE APPARATUS AND DOOR WITH THE EYEHOLE APPARATUS

• US 20060260196A1
• Filed: 09/18/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lai- F.U. Cheng
• Original Assignee: Lai- F.U. Cheng
• Inventors: Cheng, Lai- Fu
• Application Number:
  US11/162,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20060260196A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/171
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/30 Peep-holes; Devices for speaking through; Doors having windows

Abstract

An eyehole apparatus and a door with the eyehole apparatus are disclosed. The eyehole device is installed in the peephole of the door. The eyehole device includes an image capture device built in the peephole of the door. When someone rings the door bell or the user in the house activates the eyehole apparatus, the image capture device captures views outside the door for displaying on a flat panel display device. In addition, a storage device is included for recording current views or searching previously recorded views to constantly monitoring the conditions outside the door.

Claims

1. An eyehole apparatus, including:

an image capture device, built in the peephole of the door to capture a picture outside the door;

a flat panel display device for displaying the image captured by the image capture device; and

a base, suitable for fixing the image capture device and the flat panel display device on the door panel.

2. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further includes a storage device, suitable for recording the images by the image capture device.

3. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the storage device is a memory card slot, suitable for inserting a memory card.

4. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the storage device is a memory.

5. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base further includes a plurality of screw holes for bolting a plurality of bolts to fix the base on the door panel.

6. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image capture device is a charge coupled device (CCD).

7. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image capture device is a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image display device.

8. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat panel display device is a liquid crystal display (LCD).

9. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flat panel display device is an organic light emitting diode (OLED).

10. A door with a eyehole apparatus, suitable for installing the eyehole apparatus in the peephole of the door, including:

a door panel, for dividing the exit and the entrance of the building;

an image capture device, built in the peephole of the door to capture views outside the door;

a flat panel display device, for displaying the images captured by the image capture device; and

a base, for fixing the image capture device and the flat panel display device on the door panel.

11. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 10, further includes:

a storage device, for recording the images captured by the image capture device.

12. The eyehole apparatus as claimed in claim 10, further includes:

a door bell, coupled to the eyehole apparatus, when someone rings the bell, views outside the door is displayed on the flat panel display device.