SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING ACTIVE ALERT FUNCTION

• US 20090153660A1
• Filed: 12/18/2007
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zippy Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Zippy Technology Corporation
• Inventors: LIU, Chia-Lun
• Application Number:
  US11/959,287
• Publication Number:
  US 20090153660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/025 Door telephones adapted for television H04N7/186

Abstract

A surveillance system including active alert function has a recognition system and an information processing system linking to the recognition system. The recognition system sets a monitoring area and identifies whether a visitor entering the monitoring area is an authorized user and gets monitoring information of the visitor. The information processing system saves the monitoring information and sends the saved information to the authorized user through an output system. Through the invention the authorized user can be actively informed of the monitoring in formation got in the monitoring area to avoid possible risks that might otherwise occur due to non-timely informed of the monitoring information.

Claims

1. A surveillance system including active alert function, comprising:

a recognition system which sets a monitoring area and identifies whether visitors entering the monitoring area are authorized users and gets monitoring information of the visitors; and

an information processing system which is linked to the recognition system to store the monitoring information and send the stored monitoring information to the authorized users through an output system.

2. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the recognition system gets the monitoring information through an image monitoring device.

3. The surveillance system of claim 2, wherein the image monitoring device is a dynamic image recording device.

4. The surveillance system of claim 2, wherein the image monitoring device is a static image recording device.

5. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring information is static image information.

6. The surveillance system of claim 5, wherein the monitoring information further includes voice information.

7. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring information is dynamic image information.

8. The surveillance system of claim 7, wherein the monitoring information further includes voice information.

9. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring information further includes time records.

10. The surveillance system of claim 1, wherein the information processing system includes an information storage unit to store the monitoring information.

11. A surveillance method including active alert function, comprising the steps of:

setting a monitoring area and getting monitoring information of a visitor who enters the monitoring area;

identifying the visitor and differentiating the visitor as an authorized user and an unauthorized user;

saving the monitoring information of the visitor; and

alerting actively the identified authorized user by sending the saved monitoring information.

12. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the monitoring information is static image information.

13. The surveillance method of claim 12, wherein the monitoring information further includes voice information.

14. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the monitoring information is dynamic image information.

15. The surveillance method of claim 14, wherein the monitoring information further includes voice information.

16. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the monitoring information further includes time records.

17. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the step of saving the monitoring information stores the monitoring information of an unauthorized user.

18. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the step of saving the monitoring information stores the monitoring information of the authorized user.

19. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the step of saving the monitoring information includes storing pre-recorded messages of an authorized user.

20. The surveillance method of claim 11, wherein the step of saving the monitoring information includes storing actual environment information.