Enhanced alarm monitoring using a sound monitoring screen saver
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1. An alarm monitor, comprising:
- a conventional personal computer including a microphone, a memory, a communication port, a display and system software; and
a sound monitoring screen saver program stored in the memory, including;
first instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to determine when sound received through the microphone of the personal computer is an alarm sound; and
second instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to communicate responsive signals from the personal computer when an alarm sound is determined.
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Abstract
Alarm monitors comprising conventional personal computers respond automatically to an identified alarm sound by sending a notification signal via the Internet only when a special sound monitoring program is active.
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20 Claims
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1. An alarm monitor, comprising:
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a conventional personal computer including a microphone, a memory, a communication port, a display and system software; and a sound monitoring screen saver program stored in the memory, including; first instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to determine when sound received through the microphone of the personal computer is an alarm sound; and second instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to communicate responsive signals from the personal computer when an alarm sound is determined. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An alarm monitor, comprising:
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a conventional personal computer including a microphone, a memory, a communication port, a display and system software; and a sound monitoring program stored in the memory, including; first instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to determine when sound received through the microphone of the personal computer is an alarm sound, the first instructional signals including a digital acoustic signature recognition technology comprising a technique selected from the group consisting of matched filtering, cross correlation, and neural networking; and second instructional signals encoded on the memory for cooperatively functioning with the system software to communicate responsive signals from the personal computer when an alarm sound is determined.
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