Cobra head streetlight fixture surveillance system

• US 8,382,387 B1
• Filed: 01/23/2012
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shaun C. Sandoval
• Original Assignee: Shaun C. Sandoval
• Inventors: Sandoval, Shaun C.
• Primary Examiner(s): MAHONEY, CHRISTOPHER E
• Application Number:
  US13/356,587
• Time in Patent Office: 400 Days
• Field of Search: 396/427, 396/419, 396/433, 348/143, 348/151, 362/253, 362/374, 362/431, 362/457
• US Class Current: 396/427
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/086 with lighting device attached sideways of the standard, e.g. for roads and highways
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0052 Audio or video equipment, e.g. televisions, telephones, cameras or computers; Remote control devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03

Abstract

A system and method for providing a surveillance camera platform, and house supporting devices in a streetlight housing is disclosed. The device and method uses a cobra head, clamshell style streetlight housings with a lens between the housing sections to increase the volume of the housing. The system uses a lens for capturing image with the camera systems. The camera systems include data transmittal and receiving devices that allow the receipt of data to control the camera systems and the transmission of any necessary image and other data collected with systems contained within the housing. The lens is camouflaged by using a color that matches the rest of the housing. LEDs and reflector are used to provide the lighting function of the streetlight and to further provide space wile reducing heat within the housing. An internal fan is contemplated to further cool the system.

Claims

1. A cobra-style streetlight housing for accepting a surveillance camera while the housing is supported from a streetlight support pole, the housing comprising:

a streetlight housing comprising;

a concave upper housing having an upper housing first end and an upper housing second end, the upper housing first end being adapted for attachment to the streetlight support pole;

a concave lower housing, the lower housing having a lower housing first end and a lower housing second end, the lower housing second end being connected to the upper housing second end through a hinge connection that allows movement of the lower housing relative to the upper housing, the lower housing supporting a diffuser lens, the upper housing terminates in an upper housing lower rim and the lower housing terminating in a lower housing upper edge that mates with the upper housing lower rim, the housing further comprising a latch support;

a camouflaged lens having a generally extended asymmetrical mandorla shape, the camouflaged lens; and

a latch mounted to the latch support, the latch extending between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge, so that the camouflaged lens extends between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge while the latch retains the lower housing upper edge against the camouflaged lens and retains the camouflaged lens against the upper housing lower edge, so that surveillance equipment may be housed within cobra-style streetlight housing and surveillance video captured through the camouflaged lens.

2. A cobra-style streetlight housing according to claim 1 and further comprising an illumination source having an inverted concave reflector that is supported from the concave lower housing, and a surveillance camera positioned between inverted concave reflector and the upper housing second end, so that the surveillance camera may collect image data through the camouflaged lens.

3. A cobra-style streetlight housing according to claim 2 wherein the external side of said camouflaged lens is colored to match an external surface of the concave upper housing.

4. A method for incorporating surveillance capabilities into a cobra-style streetlight housing, the method comprising:

providing a streetlight housing comprising;

a concave upper housing having an upper housing first end and an upper housing second end;

a concave lower housing, the lower housing having a lower housing first end and a lower housing second end, the lower housing second end being connected to the upper housing second end through a hinge connection that allows movement of the lower housing relative to the upper housing, the lower housing supporting a diffuser camouflaged lens, the upper housing terminates in an upper housing lower rim and the lower housing terminating in a lower housing upper edge that mates with the upper housing lower rim, the housing further comprising a latch support;

providing a camouflaged lens having a generally extended asymmetrical mandorla shape; and

providing a latch mounted to the latch support, and inserting the camouflaged lens between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge and retaining the camouflaged lens between the upper housing lower rim and the lower housing upper edge, so that the lower housing first end is supported from the upper housing first end.