Doorbell-triggering method

• US 9,648,289 B1
• Filed: 07/11/2016
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brainchild Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Brainchild Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Peng, Tsu-Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Creighton
• Application Number:
  US15/206,812
• Time in Patent Office: 302 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones

Abstract

A doorbell-triggering method first controls the doorbell trigger to switch to a hardware shutdown status when detecting the doorbell trigger is idle; controls the doorbell trigger to switch to an operating booting status to connect to a relay host when receiving a doorbell signal from a button unit of the doorbell trigger under the hardware shutdown status; sends a visiting message to a remote electronic device via the relay host; receives a return image/text message from the relay host and displaying the return image/text message on a display unit of the doorbell trigger. The present disclosed example can substantially reduce the power consumption and the requirement of network bandwidth via automatically switching to the hardware shutdown status when idle and using the image/text message having smaller data size to respond the visitor.

Claims

1. A doorbell-triggering method, comprising:

a) controlling a doorbell trigger to switch to a hardware shutdown status when detecting the doorbell trigger is idle;

b) controlling the doorbell trigger to switch to an operating booting status and connect to a relay host when receiving a doorbell signal from a button unit of the doorbell trigger under the hardware shutdown status;

c) sending a visiting message to a remote electronic device via the relay host;

d) receiving a return image/text message from the relay host and displaying the return image/text message on a display unit of the doorbell trigger; and

e) displaying a default image/text message when the doorbell trigger didn'"'"'t receive the return image/text message for a default return time since the visiting message was sent.

2. The doorbell-triggering method as claim 1, wherein the step a) is to switch off a processor clock of the doorbell trigger and reduce voltage supply for controlling the doorbell trigger to switch to the hardware shutdown status.

3. The doorbell-triggering method as claim 1, wherein the method comprises following steps after the step b:

f) counting a trigger time length of the doorbell signal being continuously triggered, or counting the number of trigger times or a trigger frequency of the doorbell signal being continuously triggered during a trigger time interval;

g) determining an emergency level according to the trigger time length, the number of trigger times or the trigger frequency; and

h) sending the trigger time length, the number of trigger times, the trigger frequency or an emergency level message corresponding to the emergency level to the remote electronic device via the relay host.

4. The doorbell-triggering method as claim 1, wherein the return image/text message comprises a communication service message indicating a visitor that using a communication service to communicate with the remote electronic device.

5. The doorbell-triggering method as claim 4, wherein the communication service is a web real-time communication service, the communication service message comprises a web address of an instant messaging service for connecting to the communication service and a plurality of verification codes for verification in the communication service.

6. The doorbell-triggering method as claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

i) a computer program of the remote electronic device controlling the remote electronic device to send an audio/video-communication-enabling message to the doorbell trigger via the relay host when detecting an audio/video-communication-enabling operation;

j) controlling an external audio/video device to switch on at the doorbell trigger when receiving the audio/video-communication-enabling message; and

k) the computer program of the remote electronic device controlling the remote electronic device to establish an audio/video communication connection with the external audio/video device via the doorbell trigger.