MONITORING CAMERA SYSTEM

• US 20170013184A1
• Filed: 09/20/2016
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamanishi, Koji, Kambe, Toshio
• Application Number:
  US15/270,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20170013184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/003 Address allocation methods and details
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/085 using a television receiver, e.g. viewdata system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers

Abstract

In a monitoring camera system, a master device registers a smartphone and a wireless router therein in advance. If sensor detection information is received from a human sensor, the master device requests a monitoring camera to transmit image/audio data, and sends image/audio data transmitted from the monitoring camera to the smartphone via the wireless router. The smartphone displays the image data sent from the monitoring camera on a touch panel.

Claims

1. A monitoring camera system comprising:

a monitoring camera; and

a master device which, in operation, communicates with the monitoring camera and is connected to a fixed telephone network to perform calls to other fixed telephones;

wherein,

when a wireless router for performing wireless communication with a mobile phone terminal is not registered at the master device, the master device, in response to receiving a defined operation on the master device, establishes a wireless connection to the mobile phone terminal and transmits a setup request signal to the mobile phone terminal,

the master device, in response to receiving router setup information of the wireless router from the mobile phone terminal, registers the wireless router at the master device according to the router setup information and establishes a wireless connection to the registered wireless router, and

the master device, in response to receiving instruction for image display from the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router, transmits image data transmitted from the monitoring camera to the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router.

2. The monitoring camera system of claim 1, wherein,

when the mobile phone terminal is not registered at the master device, the master device, in response to receiving terminal information from the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router, registers the mobile phone terminal at the master device according to the terminal information.

3. The monitoring system of claim 2, wherein,

the master device, in operation, communicates with the monitoring camera according to a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) method and communicates with a slave device according to the DECT method.

4. The monitoring system of claim 1, wherein,

the master device, in operation, communicates with the monitoring camera according to a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) method and communicates with a slave device according to the DECT method.

5. A method executed by a master device connectable to a fixed telephone network to perform calls to other fixed telephones, the method comprising:

when a wireless router for performing wireless communication with a mobile phone terminal is not registered at the master device, in response to receiving a defined operation on the master device, establishing a wireless connection to the mobile phone terminal,

transmitting a setup request signal to the mobile phone terminal, receiving router setup information of the wireless router from the mobile phone terminal,

registering the wireless router at the master device according to the router setup information and establishing a wireless connection to the registered wireless router,

receiving instruction for image display from the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router, and

transmitting image data transmitted from the monitoring camera to the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router.

6. The method of claim 5, comprising:

when the mobile phone terminal is not registered at the master device, in response to receiving terminal information from the mobile phone terminal via the registered wireless router, registering the mobile phone terminal at the master device according to the terminal information.

7. The method of claim 6, comprising:

communicating with the monitoring camera according to a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) method and communicating with a slave device according to the DECT method.

8. The method of claim 5, comprising:

communicating with the monitoring camera according to a digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) method and communicating with a slave device according to the DECT method.