REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, REMOTE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MONITORING SERVER

• US 20120092447A1
• Filed: 10/17/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hanwha Vision Company Limited (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Techwin Corporation (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: JEONG, Woo-cheol, KANG, Goo-ho, LEE, Ho-jung, KIM, Jong-myoung
• Granted Patent: US 9,160,784 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/36
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A remote management system, a remote management method, and a monitoring server are provided. The remote management system includes at least one camera which captures at least one of a moving image and a still image of a remote place; a storage unit which stores the captured image; a control unit which controls operation of the at least one camera; and a communication unit which transmits to a device selectively the stored image or an email attached by the stored image.

Claims

1. A remote management system comprising:

at least one camera which captures at least one of a moving image and a still image of a remote place;

a storage unit which stores the captured image;

a control unit which controls operation of the at least one camera; and

a communication unit which transmits to a device selectively the stored image or an email attached by the stored image.

2. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits the stored image to the device by attaching the stored image to the email if the communication unit is blocked to be accessed from the device.

3. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the communication unit transmits the email to the device at a predetermined time.

4. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera captures the still image at a predetermined time.

5. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the control unit deletes the transmitted image from the storage unit if the communication unit successfully transmits the stored image or the email attached by the stored image to the device.

6. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the still image comprises a panorama image.

7. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the moving image and the still image is an image currently captured by the at least one camera in real time.

8. The remote management system of claim 1, further comprising a counter unit which generates counting data by counting a number of people who appear in a monitoring region on the captured image.

9. The remote management system of claim 8, wherein the communication unit transmits the counting data to the device.

10. The remote management system of claim 1, wherein the control unit selects a method for transmitting the image stored in the storage unit to the device according to a size of the stored image.

11. A remote management method comprising:

capturing at least one of a moving image and a still image of a remote place;

storing the captured image; and

transmitting to a device selectively the stored image or an email attached by the stored image.

12. The remote management method of claim 11, further comprising determining whether an access from the device to the stored image is blocked,

wherein, if it is determined that the access is blocked, the email attached by the stored image is transmitted to the device, and, if it is determined that the access is not blocked, the stored image is directly transmitted to the device.

13. The remote management method of claim 11, wherein the still image is captured at a predetermined time.

14. The remote management method of claim 11, further comprising deleting the transmitted image if the stored image or the email attached by the stored image is successfully transmitted to the device.

15. The remote management method of claim 11, further comprising generating counting data by counting a number of people who appear in a monitoring region on the captured image, and

wherein the counting data is transmitted to the device.

16. A monitoring device comprising:

a mail reception unit which receives an email, attached by data, transmitted from a terminal of a remote place;

a communication unit which directly receives the data from the terminal, if the data is directly received without being attached to the email;

a storage unit which stores the data; and

a server which provides a management page for managing the remote place to a client, and transmits the data to the client according to a control signal received from the client,

wherein the data is received from the terminal by being attached to the email if the monitoring device is blocked to access the terminal.

17. The monitoring server of claim 16, wherein the data comprises at least one of a still image, a moving image, and counting data generated by counting a number of people who appear in a monitoring region.

18. The monitoring server of claim 17, wherein the data comprises a still image, a moving image, and counting data generated by counting a number of people who appear in a monitoring region.

19. The monitoring server of claim 17, wherein the server transforms the counting data into a graph and transmits the graph to the client.

20. The monitoring server of claim 17, wherein the server provides a scheduler for selecting a time period to the client, and transmits to the client an image in the time period selected by using the scheduler from among the stored images.