Burglar alarm control

• US 9,449,493 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2015
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EarlySense Ltd.
• Original Assignee: EarlySense Ltd.
• Inventors: Shinar, Zvika, Tsoref, Liat, Meger, Guy, Davidovich, Maayan, Halperin, Avner
• Primary Examiner(s): SHERWIN, RYAN W
• Application Number:
  US14/956,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20160093196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 293 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/08 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for evaluating the respiratory organs A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4818 Sleep apnoea
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6892 Mats
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7405 using sound
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

Apparatus is described for use with a burglar alarm that includes a detector configured to detect activity and to generate an activity-detection signal in response thereto. A sensor monitors a resting surface and generates a signal in response thereto. A control unit identifies a correspondence between (a) the activity-detection signal, and (b) the signal that is generated by the sensor. The control unit inhibits the burglar alarm from being triggered, in response to the correspondence. Other applications are also described.

Claims

1. Apparatus for use with a burglar alarm that includes a detector configured to detect activity and to generate an activity-detection signal in response thereto, the apparatus comprising:

a motion sensor, configured to sense motion of a subject on a resting surface and to generate a motion signal in response thereto; and

a control unit, configured to;

identify a correspondence between (a) the activity-detection signal generated by the detector of the burglar alarm, and (b) the motion signal that is generated by the motion sensor, the motion signal being indicative of the subject undergoing motion on the resting surface, and

inhibit the burglar alarm from being triggered, in response to the correspondence.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detector is a motion detector, such that the burglar alarm includes a motion-detection-based alarm, the control unit being configured to inhibit the motion-detection-based alarm from being triggered.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the burglar alarm includes a perimeter alarm, and wherein the control unit is configured to not inhibit the perimeter alarm from being triggered, while inhibiting the motion-detection-based alarm from being triggered.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is further configured to:

analyze the motion signal,

in response thereto, ascertain that a person has left the resting surface, and

in response thereto, inhibit the burglar alarm from being triggered.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the control unit is configured to inhibit the burglar alarm from being triggered at a given time only if the person left the resting surface more than a threshold amount of time prior to the given time, the threshold amount of time being an input to the control unit.