ELECTRONIC SECURITY SYSTEM

• US 20090091620A1
• Filed: 10/06/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Leroy E. Anderson
• Original Assignee: Leroy E. Anderson
• Inventors: ANDERSON, LEROY E.
• Application Number:
  US12/246,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20090091620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/159
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/26 to the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/28 with an adjustable field of view
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/103 using camera systems provided with artificial illumination device, e.g. IR light source
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/306 using a re-scaling of images
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/406 using wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/808 for facilitating docking to a trailer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

The invention is an electronic security system for placement in a building so that a person may view, on an electronic screen, an image from one of several digital cameras placed around the building. The unit includes a zoom function which zooms to the lower center, to the right, left, lower left, or lower right of the screen in order to give the user inside the door a better view of a person or persons viewed in a digital camera inside or outside the building.

Claims

1. An electronic security system, comprising:

a plurality of digital camera lens units for mounting in a position adjacent to a region to be viewed, with said region to be viewed remote from a user of said electronic security system;

at least one digital viewing screen unit for mounting in a position at a selected distance from said plurality of digital camera lens units, for convenient viewing of one or more images from said camera units;

a zoom feature in which a selected region of said selected image is magnified, in which the region magnified is a region other than the center of the image of said region to be viewed;

a zoom activation button;

wherein

an image viewed in said digital viewing screen unit is magnified when said zoom activation button, and said image is magnified to show greater detail of a part of the image which is not the center of the image.

2. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said zoom feature is configured to magnify a region of said image located in the lower center of said image.

3. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said zoom feature is based on software magnification of said image.

4. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said zoom feature is configured to magnify a region of said image located in the lower right of said image.

5. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said zoom feature is configured to magnify a region of said image located in the lower left of said image.

6. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said zoom feature is configured to magnify one of a plurality of regions of said image, in which the region to be magnified is not the center of the image.

7. The electronic security system of claim 6 in which said electronic security system further comprises a zone selection button, for selecting a region of said image to magnify.

8. The electronic security system of claim 6 in which said electronic security system further comprises a zone selection button in the form of a touch screen, for selecting a region of said image to magnify.

9. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which digital camera lens'"'"' said zoom feature is configured to magnify one of a plurality of regions of said image, in which the region to be magnified is not the center of the image.

10. The electronic security system of claim 7 which further comprises a magnification button to change magnification to different levels of magnification.

11. The electronic security system of claim 7 which further comprises a brightness button to change brightness of said image to different levels of brightness.

13. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said digital camera lens units are configured for mounting at selected viewpoints of a building for monitoring movement in a selected zone.

14. The electronic security system of claim 1 which further includes a voice transmittal feature.

16. The electronic security system of claim 1 which further includes at least one light source associated with said plurality of digital camera lens units, for illuminating a region viewed by said digital camera units.

17. The electronic security system of claim 1 in which said digital viewing screen is configured to be portable from said digital camera lens, for placement in any location chosen by a user.

18. The electronic security system of claim 1 which further comprises a selection means to select a region on each image of each camera for viewing, and a magnification means for magnification of the selected region of the selected image.

19. The electronic security system of claim 18 which further comprises a magnification selection means for selecting different levels of magnification for the image selected from the various cameras.

20. The electronic security system of claim 18, which further includes an alarm configured to sound when movement is detected in a region viewed by a particular camera unit.