MONITORING CAMERA SYSTEM

• US 20150296165A1
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KAWAMURA, Mitsuru, SATO, Keizo
• Granted Patent: US 10,044,966 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

A master device transmits received image data to a mobile phone terminal and includes a storage unit that stores sensor setting information including at least sensitivity or a threshold value of a sensor, the mobile phone terminal includes a display and input unit, displays the image data transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, requests the master device to provide the sensor setting information when receiving a predetermined operation, displays the sensor setting information transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, and transmits the changed sensor setting information to the master device when receiving an operation of changing the sensor setting information, and the master device updates the sensor setting information stored in the storage unit using the sensor setting information after changing transmitted from the mobile phone terminal.

Claims

1. A monitoring camera system comprising:

a sensor;

a monitoring camera including an imaging unit and having a telephone call function;

a master device capable of communicating with the monitoring camera, the master device being connected to a fixed telephone network and capable of performing a telephone call with another fixed telephone; and

a mobile phone terminal capable of wireless communication with the master device using a wireless router, the mobile phone terminal connecting to the other mobile phone over a mobile phone network,

wherein the monitoring camera transmits image data obtained by the imaging unit to the master device when the sensor detects a target,

the master device transmits the received image data to the mobile phone terminal and includes a storage unit that stores sensor setting information including at least sensitivity or a threshold value of the sensor,

the mobile phone terminal includes a display and input unit, displays the image data transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, requests the master device to provide the sensor setting information when receiving a predetermined operation, displays the sensor setting information transmitted from the master device on the display and input unit, and transmits the changed sensor setting information to the master device when receiving an operation of changing the sensor setting information, and

the master device updates the sensor setting information stored in the storage unit using the sensor setting information after changing transmitted from the mobile phone terminal.

2. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the mobile phone terminal divides the sensor setting information transmitted from the master device for each group to display the sensor setting information on the display and input unit, and transmits the sensor setting information changed according to the designated group to the master device when receiving an operation of changing the sensor setting information for each group, and

the master device collectively updates the sensor setting information stored in the storage unit for each group, using the sensor setting information after changing for each group transmitted from the mobile phone terminal.

3. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the sensor setting information includes at least sensitivity of the sensor, an ON/OFF setting of the sensor, and an operating time.

4. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the sensor is a human sensor.

5. The monitoring camera system of claim 1,

wherein the mobile phone terminal changeably displays an icon indicating the sensor, and a threshold value for the sensor determining abnormality on the display and input unit, the threshold value being displayed adjacent to the icon.