Video intercom device

• US 9,635,322 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Takashi, Fukuda, Shinji, Ohbuchi, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): El-Zoobi, Maria
• Application Number:
  US14/989,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20160295174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 9/08 Two-way loud-speaking telephone systems with means for conditioning the signal, e.g. for suppressing echoes for one or both directions of traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/02 Power saving arrangements in wired systems H04L12/12; signaling of mobile application services, e.g. low battery notifications H04W4/20
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Provided is a video intercom device suppressing electric power consumption. The video intercom device adopts a configuration where the video intercom device performs wireless communication between a front door slave unit and an indoor master unit, the indoor master unit includes a wireless communication unit that requests the front door slave unit to be switched between a first communication method by which the front door slave unit periodically turns on a main power source and is in a sleep state when the main power source turns off, and a second communication method by which the front door slave unit turns on the main power source when an interrupt occurs and is in the sleep state when the main power source turns off, and the front door slave unit includes a controller that controls switching to a communication method requested from the indoor master unit.

Claims

1. A video intercom device that performs a wireless communication between a front door slave device and an indoor master device,

wherein the indoor master device includes

a wireless transmitter that requests the front door slave device to be switched between a first communication method and a second communication method,

wherein, in the first communication method, a main power source included in the front door slave device, periodically turns on and turns off while the front door slave device is in a sleep state, and in the second communication method, the front door slave device in the sleep state turns on the main power source when an interrupt signal is detected at the front door device, wherein the front door slave device includes

a processor that controls switching the front door slave device to one of the first or second communication method requested from the indoor master device, and

wherein, in the first communication method, a period between the turning on and off of the main power source is greater than 1 second.

2. The video intercom device of claim 1,

wherein the indoor master device requests switching from the first communication method to the second communication method at a timing at which the main power source of the front door slave device turns on.

3. The video intercom device of claim 1,

wherein the indoor master device requests switching from the second communication method to the first communication method at a timing at which the front door slave device turns on the main power source in response to detecting the interrupt signal.

4. The video intercom device of claim 1,

wherein the front door slave device in the second communication method detects the interrupt signal when a physical input is detected on the front door slave device.

5. The video intercom device of claim 1,

wherein an auxiliary power source of the front door slave device remains on in the second communication method to detect the interrupt signal.

6. A video intercom device that performs a wireless communication between a front door slave device and an indoor master device,

wherein the indoor master device includes

a wireless transmitter that requests the front door slave device to be switched between a first communication method and a second communication method,

wherein, in the first communication method, a main power source included in the front door slave device, periodically turns on and turns off while a, the front door slave device is in a sleep state, and

in the second communication method, the front door slave device in the sleep state turns on the main power source when an interrupt signal is detected at the front door device,

wherein the front door slave device includes

a processor that controls switching the front door slave device to one of the first or second communication method requested from the indoor master device, and

wherein, in the first communication method, a period between the turning on and off of the main power source is less than 2 seconds.