CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION

• US 20070008409A1
• Filed: 02/15/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jae-Woong Yoo
• Original Assignee: Jae-Woong Yoo
• Inventors: YOO, JAE-WOONG
• Application Number:
  US11/307,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20070008409A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/56 provided with illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). The CCTV includes a monitoring camera unit, two infrared projector units, and a direction adjustment means. The monitoring camera unit has a camera for imaging subjects and a plurality of infrared projection modules arranged around the camera. The two infrared projector units are arranged beside the monitoring camera unit, each including a plurality of infrared projection modules. The direction adjustment means is installed under a portion of a base plate on which the monitoring camera unit and the infrared projection units are mounted and configured to orient the monitoring camera in a desired direction. Accordingly, long-distance images can be observed at night by aligning infrared rays and an image observation point, and a wide range of images can be observed at night by preventing the range of an image captured by the camera and an infrared region from being mismatched.

Claims

1. A Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), comprising:

a monitoring camera unit comprising a camera for imaging subjects and a plurality of infrared projection modules arranged around the camera;

two infrared projector units arranged beside the monitoring camera unit, each comprising a plurality of infrared projection modules; and

direction adjustment means installed under a portion of a base plate on which the monitoring camera unit and the infrared projection units are mounted and configured to orient the monitoring camera in a desired direction.

2. The CCTV as set forth in claim 1, wherein each of the infrared projection modules comprises:

an infrared Light-Emitting Diode (LED) module comprising an infrared LED and a primary condenser lens for condensing an infrared ray, which is emitted from the infrared LED, within a first angular range; and

a secondary condenser lens for condensing the infrared ray, which is emitted from the infrared LED module, within a second angular range and emitting the condensed infrared rays.

3. The CCTV as set forth in claim 2, wherein the first angular range is ±

13°

, the second angular range is one of ±

5° and

±

10°

, and the infrared LED is a hybrid type LED.

4. The CCTV as set forth in claim 2, wherein the monitoring camera unit and the infrared projection units are provided with light sensors so as to turn off the infrared LED modules when sensed intensity of illumination is higher than a predetermined intensity of illumination, thus minimizing power consumption, and turn on the infrared LED modules when the sensed intensity of illumination is lower than the predetermined intensity of illumination.

5. The CCTV as set forth in claim 4, wherein a camera of the monitoring camera unit images a subject in color using a color filter when the sensed intensity of illumination is higher than the predetermined intensity of illumination, and converts the color filter into a black and white filter and images a subject in black and white when the sensed intensity of illumination is lower than the predetermined intensity of illumination, thus facilitating image observation.

6. The CCTV as set forth in claim 5, wherein the monitoring camera unit is provided with a high temperature sensor and a low temperature sensor so as to operate a blower when a sensed temperature is higher than a first temperature, thus reducing a temperature of the CCTV, and turn on the infrared LED modules when the sensed temperature is lower than a second temperature, thus increasing the temperature of the CCTV.

7. The CCTV as set forth in claim 6, wherein the monitoring camera unit and the infrared injector units further comprise a switching mode power supply for converting supplied power into a constant voltage and outputting the constant voltage, thus lengthening life spans of the infrared projection modules and the camera.

8. The CCTV as set forth in claim 2, wherein the primary condenser lens is a reflector type condenser lens.