Security monitoring arrangement and method using a common field of view

• US 20070063840A1
• Filed: 03/24/2006
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RSI Video Technologies Incorporated (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rsialarm Incorporated
• Inventors: Jentoft, Keith
• Granted Patent: US 7,463,145 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19641 Multiple cameras having overlapping views on a single scene
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/181 due to failing power supply

Abstract

According to one example embodiment, an integrated security arrangement detects unwanted intruders in a facility. The arrangement includes an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility, a second sensor to sense movement, an image-capture device, and a base unit. The image-capture device captures images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and in response to a movement indication from the second sensor. The base unit integrates a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device, thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

Claims

1. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

a second sensor to sense movement;

an image-capture device to capture images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and to a movement indication from the second sensor; and

a base unit integrating a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device and thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

2. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal that arms the second sensor in response to sensing the intrusion.

3. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, further including an electronic circuit to operate the second sensor to control power consumption of the second sensor and the image-capture device and to process the captured images.

4. The integrated security arrangement of claim 3, further including a housing to contain the base unit, a power supply, the electronic circuit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

5. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, further including a housing to contain the base unit, the second sensor, and the image-capture device.

6. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, further including a communication device to transmit signals to a remotely-located central controller, and a housing to contain the communication device, the base unit, the second sensor, and the image-capture device.

7. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a passive infrared sensor.

8. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein one of the second sensor and the image-capture device differentiates between images of a human and another moving object.

9. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor is one of a window contact and glass-break detector.

10. The integrated security arrangement of claim 6, wherein the remotely-located central controller is located within the facility.

11. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a radar detector.

12. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the image-capture device is adapted to capture images in a range of the target area that is larger than a range of the target area in which the second sensor is adapted to sense movement.

13. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is adapted to sense movement in a range of the target area that is above a predetermined height and the image-capture device is adapted to capture images in a range of the target area that is larger than the range of the second sensor.

14. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal and transmits the intrusion signal to a remotely-located central controller that arms the second sensor in response to receiving the intrusion signal.

15. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein receipt of the movement indication transmission is delayed for a predetermined amount of time after sensing movement.

16. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

intrusion means for sensing an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

second means for sensing movement;

image-capture means for capturing images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion means and to a movement indication from the second means; and

means for integrating a direction of view of the second means and of the image-capture means and thereby directing the second means to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture means.

17. A method for manufacturing an integrated security apparatus that is responsive to an intrusion sensor that senses an intrusion at a target area of a facility, comprising:

providing a base unit, a second sensor to sense movement, and an image-capture device to capture images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and to a movement indication from the second sensor; and

securing the second sensor and the image-capture device to the base unit with the second sensor and the image-capture device to integrate a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device and thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

18. The method of claim 17, further including providing an electronic circuit to operate the second sensor to control power consumption of the second sensor and the image-capture device and to process the captured images.

19. The method of claim 18, further including providing a housing to contain the base unit, a power supply, the electronic circuit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

20. The method of claim 17, further including providing a housing to contain the base unit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

21. The method of claim 17, further including providing a communication device to transmit signals to a remotely-located central controller, and providing a housing to contain the communication device, the base unit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

22. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

a second sensor to sense movement wherein the second sensor is armed for sensing in response to the intrusion sensor sensing an intrusion;

an image-capture device to capture images in response to a movement indication from the second sensor; and

a base unit integrating a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device and thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.