CRIB MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20120062735A1
• Filed: 04/08/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eric Rivera
• Original Assignee: Eric Rivera
• Inventors: Rivera, Eric
• Application Number:
  US13/082,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20120062735A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0476 Cameras to detect unsafe condition, e.g. video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A crib monitoring system for a crib having a plurality of crib posts disposed a predetermined distance apart, and a side gate including a plurality of bar portions disposed between and connectable to the crib posts. The crib monitoring system includes at least one camera device connected to a crib post of the plurality of crib posts and configured to capture an image of an interior of the crib, a plurality of sensor devices, each sensor device connected with a respective crib post, and configured to form a signal beam along an interior surface of the side gate between the crib posts, and a monitoring device configured to receive a warning signal when a baby within the crib is within a predetermined distance of the bar portions such that the signal beam is interrupted.

Claims

11-1. The crib monitoring system of claim 1, wherein the crib comprises:

at least one first housing portion for receiving the at least one camera device therein; and

second housing portions to each receive a sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices therein.

15. A method of operating a crib monitoring system including a plurality of sensor devices and at least one camera device housed within a crib and portable monitoring device remotely positioned, the method comprises:

continuously maintaining, via the sensor devices, a signal beam along an interior surface of bar portions of the crib;

generating a warning signal via at least one of the sensor devices when the signal beam is interrupted by movement of a baby within the crib; and

transmitting video data from the at least one camera device to the monitoring device when the warning signal has been generated; and

displaying via a display device at the monitoring device, an image associated with the video data.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein generating a warning signal further comprises:

transmitting the warning signal generated, directly from the at least one sensor device to the monitoring device and the camera device to active transmission of the video data to the monitoring device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein generating a warning signal further comprises:

transmitting the warning signal generated, simultaneously to the monitoring device and the camera device

18. The method of claim 15, wherein generating a warning signal further comprises:

transmitting the warning signal from the at least one sensor device to the at least one camera device and then transmitting the warning signal and the video data together to the monitoring device from the at least one camera device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein during normal operation, the display device at the monitoring device remains in an off-state until the warning signal is received at the monitoring device, and upon receiving the warning signal, the image is displayed via the display device.