Security monitoring arrangement and method using a common field of view

• US 7,463,145 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2006
• Issued: 12/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RSI Video Technologies Incorporated (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: RSI Video Technologies Incorporated (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Jentoft, Keith
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland; Donnie L
• Application Number:
  US11/388,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20070063840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 340/541, 340/517, 340/521, 340/522, 340/565, 340/539.25, 340/693.1, 348/152, 348/154, 348/155
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19641 Multiple cameras having overlapping views on a single scene
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/181 due to failing power supply

Abstract

According to one example embodiment, an integrated security arrangement detects unwanted intruders in a facility. The arrangement includes an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility, a second sensor to sense movement, an image-capture device, and a base unit. The image-capture device captures images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and in response to a movement indication from the second sensor. The base unit integrates a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device, thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

Claims

1. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

a self-powered detection device including;

a second sensor to sense movement;

a non-Alternating Current (AC) power source;

an image-capture device to capture images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and to a movement indication from the second sensor;

an electronic circuit to control power drawn from the non-AC power source by the second sensor and the image-capture device, the electronic circuit, in response to receiving an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor, increasing power drawn from the second sensor by arming the second sensor and, in response to receiving a movement indication from the second sensor, increasing the power drawn from the image-capture device by arming the image-capture device; and

a base unit, powered by the non-AC power source, integrating the electronic circuit, the non-AC power source second sensor and the image-capture device, and directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

2. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal that arms the second sensor in response to sensing the intrusion, and wherein the non-AC power source is a battery circuit.

3. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein, the electronic circuit processes the captured images and wherein the control of power drawn from the non-AC power source by the second sensor and the image-capture device includes powering up and down portions of the image-capture device and the second sensor.

4. The integrated security arrangement of claim 3, further including a wall-mountable housing to contain the base unit, the non-AC power source, the electronic circuit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

5. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, further including a housing to contain the base unit, the second sensor, and the image-capture device.

6. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, further including a communication device to transmit wireless signals to a remotely-located central controller, and a housing to contain the communication device, the base unit, the second sensor, and the image-capture device.

7. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a passive infrared sensor.

8. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein one of the second sensor and the image-capture device differentiates between images of a human and another moving object.

9. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor is one of a window contact and glass-break detector.

10. The integrated security arrangement of claim 6, wherein the remotely-located central controller is located within the facility.

11. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is a radar detector.

12. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the image-capture device is adapted to capture images in a range of the target area that is larger than a range of the target area in which the second sensor is adapted to sense movement.

13. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second sensor is adapted to sense movement in a range of the target area that is above a predetermined height and the image-capture device is adapted to capture images in a range of the target area that is larger than the range of the second sensor.

14. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal and transmits the intrusion signal to a remotely-located central controller that arms the second sensor in response to receiving the intrusion signal.

15. The integrated security arrangement of claim 1, wherein the non-AC power source includes at least one battery, wherein the intrusion sensor generates a signal and transmits the intrusion signal to a remotely-located central controller that arms the second sensor in response to receiving the intrusion signal, wherein receipt of the movement indication is delayed for a predetermined amount of time after sensing movement and wherein the electronic circuit controls power drawn from the non-AC power source by a transmission circuit using the delay.

16. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

intrusion means for sensing an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

second means for sensing movement;

image-capture means for capturing images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion means and to a movement indication from the second means;

a self-contained power source means for supplying power to the second means and image-capture means;

control means to control power drawn from the power source by the second means and the image-capture means, the control means, in response to receiving an intrusion indication from the intrusion means, increasing power drawn from the second means and, in response to receiving a movement indication from the second means, increasing the power drawn from the image-capture means; and

means for integrating the control means, a direction of view of the second means and of the image-capture means and thereby directing the second means to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture means.

17. A method for manufacturing an integrated security apparatus that is responsive to an intrusion sensor that senses an intrusion at a target area of a facility, comprising:

providing a base unit that contains,

a non-Alternating Current (AC) power source,

a second sensor to sense movement, and

an image-capture device to capture images in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and to a movement indication from the second sensor;

providing an electronic circuit to,

arm, in response to the intrusion sensor sensing an intrusion, the second sensor to cause an increase in power consumption by the second sensor and from the non-AC power source;

arm, in response to the second sensor sensing movement, the image capture device to cause an increase in power consumption by the image captured device and from the non-AC power source, and

to process the captured images; and

securing the non-AC power source, the electronic circuit, the second sensor and the image-capture device to the base unit with the second sensor and the image-capture device to integrate a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device and thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein, the electronic circuit is further provided to operate the second sensor to control power consumption of the second sensor and the image-capture device by disabling functionality of the second sensor and the image-capture device and to process the captured images.

19. The method of claim 17, further including providing a housing to contain the base unit, the non-AC power source, the electronic circuit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the non-AC power source is a battery circuit.

21. The method of claim 17, further including providing a communication device to transmit signals to a remotely-located central controller, and providing a housing to contain the non-AC power source, the electronic circuit, the communication device, the base unit, the second sensor and the image-capture device.

22. An integrated security arrangement, comprising:

an intrusion sensor to sense an intrusion at a target area of a facility;

a second sensor to sense movement wherein the second sensor is armed for sensing in response to the intrusion sensor sensing an intrusion;

an image-capture device to capture images in response to a movement indication from the second sensor;

a non-Alternating Current (AC) power source;

a control circuit for controlling power drawn from the non-AC power source by the second sensor and the image-capture device in response to an intrusion indication from the intrusion sensor and a movement indication from the second sensor, respectively; and

a base unit integrating the control circuit, a direction of view of the second sensor and of the image-capture device and thereby directing the second sensor to sense in the target area in which the images are captured by the image-capture device.