MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY SERVICE USING SAME

• US 20130303105A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Thinkwaresystem Vorp
• Inventors: Yoo, Junghwa, Jo, Yongrae, Yoo, Jihyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,462,445 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/695 Control of camera direction for changing a field of view, e.g. pan, tilt or based on tracking of objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal and a system and method for safety service using the terminal for checking the user'"'"'s location and a situation of the surroundings of the user at the time of an emergency such as kidnapping, accident, and so on.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a camera; and

a controller controlling the camera to capture the surroundings at the time of emergency mode.

2. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising an angle-of-view changing unit which changes angle-of-view of the camera at the time of the emergency mode, wherein the angle-of-view include a first angle-of-view and a second angle-of-view,

wherein the first angle-of-view and the second angle-of-view overlap with each other.

5. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a transmit unit which transmits data captured by the camera to a server or another terminal, wherein the transmit unit transmits captured data to the server or another terminal independently of the user'"'"'s command input at the time of the emergency mode.

7. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a storing unit which stores data captured by the camera, wherein the storing unit comprises a first storing unit which stores data captured by the camera at the time of the emergency mode and a second storing unit which stores data captured by the camera at the time of normal mode.

9. The terminal of claim 7, wherein data captured by the camera is stored in the first storing unit after encryption.

10. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the camera through Blue-tooth communication, wherein the controller is implemented as a module separately from the camera.

12. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a first power supply providing power at the time of normal mode and the emergency mode and a second power supply providing power at the time of the emergency mode, wherein power of the second power supply is smaller than that of the first power supply.

14. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a power supply providing power, where the power supply is divided into a main power and an auxiliary power and the power supply provides the auxiliary power when the emergency mode is activated while the main power is used up.

15. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when the user leaves a predetermined safety zone.

16. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when the user enters a predetermined dangerous zone.

17. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when the user leaves a predetermine route.

18. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when the user leaves a trajectory on a predetermined route.

19. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when the user enters an emergency mode set-up command.

20. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when an emergency mode set-up command is received wirelessly from the outside.

21. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the emergency mode is set when an impact larger than a predetermined critical value is applied from the outside.

22. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising an alarm unit informing the user about activation of emergency mode at the time of the emergency mode.

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23. A system for safety service, comprising:

a first terminal comprising a camera and a controller controlling capture of the camera;

a second terminal; and

a server, where in case the first terminal is set to emergency mode, the first terminal captures the surroundings thereof by using the camera and transmits the captured data to the second terminal through the server.

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31. A method for safety service, comprising:

In case a first terminal including a camera is set to emergency mode, capturing the surroundings by using the camera; and

transmitting data captured by the camera and location information of the first terminal to a second terminal through a server.