Radio communications system for detecting and monitoring an event of a disaster

• US 8,126,511 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2005
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Matsuoka, Hironao, Nakano, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Daniel, Jr., Willie J
• Application Number:
  US11/662,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20070254716A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,276 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/561
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/10 responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes
• 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 radio communications system that shows the full effect for responding to the event of a disaster is provided. In a terminal station device, an imaging means captures an image; a composition information management means manages information about a composition for imaging; and a terminal station transmission means transmits, by radio, to a base station device, information about the captured image and the information about the composition. In the base station device, the base station reception means receives the information transmitted, by radio, from the terminal station device. In the center station, a display means displays, with a correlation, the information about the image and the information about the composition transmitted by the terminal station device based on the information received by the base station device.

Claims

1. A radio communications system comprising:

a center station;

a base station device connected to the center station; and

a terminal station device configured to communicate, by radio, with the base station device, wherein

the terminal station device comprises a telemeter means for detecting an occurrence of a predetermined abnormal condition, an imaging means for capturing an image related to the occurrence of the abnormal condition in response to the detection of the occurrence of the abnormal condition, a composition information management means configured to manage information about a composition for imaging performed by the imaging means, the information about the composition for imaging performed by the imaging means including at least one of at least information about the orientation of the imaging means and information about a scaling factor of a lens, and a terminal station transmission means for transmitting, by radio, to the base station device, information about the captured image related to the occurrence of the abnormal condition, wherein

the base station device includes a base station transmission/reception means for transmitting/receiving a signal to/from the center station, and for transmitting/receiving, by radio, a signal to/from the terminal station device, wherein

the center station includes a communication control means for transmitting the information about the composition for imaging by the imaging means including at least the orientation of the imaging means or a scaling factor of a lens to the terminal station device, and a display means for displaying, based on the information received by the base station device, the information on the image transmitted from the terminal station device;

the terminal station device includes a control means for adjusting the composition of the imaging means to the composition specified by the information about the composition for imaging received from the center station;

the communication control means in the center station adds preset data including collection request data of image information and the information about the composition for imaging by the imaging means in addition to the ID number of the terminal station device to a call signal for calling the terminal station device when the communication control means calls the terminal station device; and

the terminal station device transmits the information about the composition for imaging to the control unit in response to the recognition of the collection request data in the preset data if the ID number included in the received call signal matches the ID number of the terminal station device.

2. The radio communications system according to claim 1, wherein

based on the information received by the base station device, the display device of the center station displays information about the occurrence of the abnormal condition, and information about a map including a site related to the occurrence of the abnormal condition.

3. The radio communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the communications control means of the center station adds information about an imaging composition of the imaging means to a selection call signal which is to be sent out when a line is established with the terminal station device.

4. The radio communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the terminal station transmission means of the terminal station device transmits the information about the composition with the information about the captured image, and

the display device of the center station, based on the information about the composition received from the terminal station transmission means, displays the name of the target for imaging.

5. The radio communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the information about the composition communicated by the center station and the terminal station device is preset data.

6. The radio communications system according to claim 1, wherein

the communication control means in the center station automatically adds the preset data when a line is established with the terminal station device.