MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20150294542A1
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KAWAMURA, Mitsuru, WADA, Nobuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,947,191 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/196 using television cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

A master device stores audio data and image data transmitted from an outdoor monitoring camera in an image memory and transmits the data to a mobile phone terminal, the mobile phone terminal includes a display/input unit, displays the image data and a predetermined icon on the display/input unit, and transmits a request signal for stopping the storage operation performed by the master device to the master device when a predetermined operation is performed on the predetermined icon, and the master device stops storing the audio data and the image data in the image memory.

Claims

1. A monitoring camera system used for home security, comprising:

a human sensor;

an outdoor monitoring camera that includes a microphone and an image capturing unit, and has a call function;

a master device that communicates with the outdoor monitoring camera, and is connected to a fixed telephone network so as to perform calls to other fixed telephones; and

a mobile phone terminal that performs wireless communication with the master device by using a wireless router, and is connected to other mobile phones via a mobile phone network,

wherein, when the human sensor detects a person, the outdoor monitoring camera transmits audio data collected by the microphone and image data obtained by the image capturing unit to the master device,

wherein the master device includes an image memory, starts storing the audio data and the image data transmitted from the outdoor monitoring camera in the image memory, and transmits the audio data and the image data to the mobile phone terminal,

wherein the mobile phone terminal includes a display/input unit, displays the image data transmitted from the master device and a predetermined icon on the display/input unit, and transmits a request signal for stopping the storage operation of the master device to the master device when a predetermined operation is performed on the predetermined icon, and

wherein, when the request signal is received, the master device stops storing the audio data and the image data in the image memory.

2. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the mobile phone terminal performs display indicating that the image data is being recorded on the display/input unit in response to a signal indicating that an operation of storing image data from the master device is started.

3. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the mobile phone terminal outputs an alarm sound by ringing a speaker in response to a notification sent from the master device according to the detection performed by the human sensor.

4. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the human sensor is built into the camera.