MONITORING APPARATUS AND STORAGE METHOD

• US 20090265462A1
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tajiri, Katsutoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/426,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20090265462A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1443 Transmit or communication errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus receives information about a storage condition of monitoring data from a management apparatus via a network, and acquires at least one of image data and audio data as the monitoring data. The monitoring apparatus detects a communication state with the management apparatus, and performs control to store the monitoring data which is determined to satisfy the storage condition into a storage device that is other than the management apparatus according to the detected communication state.

Claims

1. A monitoring apparatus that acquires at least one of image data and audio data as monitoring data, the monitoring apparatus comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive information about a storage condition of the monitoring data from a management apparatus via a network;

a detection unit configured to detect a communication state with the management apparatus; and

a control unit configured to perform control to store the monitoring data which is determined to satisfy the storage condition into a storage device that is other than the management apparatus according to the communication state detected by the detection unit.

2. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the information about the storage condition including storage time from the management apparatus via the network.

3. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit includes a clock unit, and stores the monitoring data according to a difference between time in the clock unit and time in the management apparatus, and storage time included in the storage condition into the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.

4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the information about the storage condition including at least one of object recognition, object motion detection, audio detection, and sensor output from the management apparatus via the network.

5. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit includes the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.

6. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit sends the monitoring data which satisfies the storage condition so that the monitoring data is stored in the storage device that is other than the management apparatus via the network.

7. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit includes a notification unit that notifies the management apparatus of the monitoring data which satisfies the storage condition being stored in the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.

12. A data storage system comprising:

the monitoring apparatus and the management apparatus according to claim 1.

13. The data storage system according to claim 12, wherein the control unit includes a notification unit that notifies the management apparatus of the monitoring data which satisfies the storage condition being stored in the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.

8. A method for storing at least one of image data and audio data as monitoring data, the method comprising:

transferring information about a storage condition of the monitoring data from a management apparatus to a monitoring apparatus via a network;

detecting a communication state between the management apparatus and the monitoring apparatus; and

performing control to store the monitoring data which is determined to satisfy the storage condition into a storage device that is other than the management apparatus according to the detected communication state.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising notifying the management apparatus of the monitoring data which satisfies the storage condition being stored in the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.

10. A storage medium storing computer-executable instructions executed by a computer which acquires at least one of image data and audio data as monitoring data, the storage medium comprising:

computer-executable instructions for receiving information about a storage condition of the monitoring data from a management apparatus via a network;

computer-executable instructions for detecting a communication state with the management apparatus; and

computer-executable instructions for performing control to store the monitoring data which is determined to satisfy the storage condition in a storage device that is other than the management apparatus according to the detected communication state.

11. The storage medium according to claim 10, wherein the storage medium further comprises computer-executable instructions for notifying the management apparatus of the monitoring data which satisfies the storage condition being stored in the storage device that is other than the management apparatus.