APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMING OF CHILDREN-PROTECTION

• US 20100109909A1
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Jigeun, PARK, Kwangroh, RYOO, Dongwan, KIM, Jintae, BAE, Changseok, JUNG, Younggiu
• Application Number:
  US12/574,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20100109909A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

There are disclosed an apparatus and a method for informing of children-protection that provides a position of a child and surrounding environment information to parents of the child. The apparatus for informing of children-protection includes: a communication unit that receives user information transmitted from a user terminal; an informing information storing unit that stores terminal information corresponding to each user information; and an informing control unit that detects the terminal information corresponding to the user information received by the communication unit from the informing information storing unit and transmits position information of the user terminal to a terminal corresponding to the terminal information detected through the communication unit.

Claims

1. An apparatus for informing of children-protection, which is installed in a school zone, comprising:

a communication unit that receives user information transmitted from a user terminal;

an informing information storing unit that stores terminal information corresponding to each user information; and

an informing control unit that detects the terminal information corresponding to the user information received by the communication unit from the informing information storing unit and transmits position information of the user terminal to a terminal corresponding to the terminal information detected through the communication unit.

2. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, further comprising:

a self-generation unit that is self-generated to supply power to the communication unit, the informing information storing unit, and the informing control unit, wherein the self-generation unit includes a solar energy acquiring unit and a charge unit, and a battery.

3. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the informing information storing unit stores position information of the school zone and the informing control unit transmits the position information stored in the informing information storing unit as the position information of the user terminal.

4. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives environment information including at least one of an image and a sound from the user terminal in addition to the user information.

5. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 4, wherein the informing control unit transmits the environment information received by the communication unit to the user terminal through the communication unit.

6. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the informing control unit periodically transmits at least one of the position information of the user terminal and environment information received from the user terminal.

7. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit exchanges information with the user terminal through a wireless LAN SSID.

8. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the terminal information stored in the informing information storing unit is information of a protector terminal corresponding to the user information.

9. The apparatus for informing of children-protection according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit transmits entrance information for informing a vehicle which enters a school zone of entering the school zone.

10. A method for informing of children-protection using an apparatus for informing of children-protection, which is installed in a school zone, comprising:

receiving, by a communication unit, user information transmitted from a user terminal;

detecting, by an informing control unit, terminal information corresponding to the user information received in receiving the user information from an informing information storing unit; and

transmitting, by the informing control unit, position information of the user terminal to a terminal corresponding to terminal information detected in detecting the terminal information.

11. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, further comprising:

providing self-generated power supply, by a self-generation unit, to the communication unit, the informing information storing unit, and the informing control unit.

12. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, wherein in the transmitting the position information of the user terminal, the informing control unit transmits position information of the school zone, which is stored in the informing information storing unit as the position information of the user terminal.

13. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, wherein in receiving the user information, the communication unit receives environment information including at least one of an user image and a user sound from the user terminal in addition to the user information.

14. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 13, wherein in transmitting the position information of the user terminal, the informing control unit transmits the environment information received in receiving the user information to the user terminal through the communication unit.

15. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, wherein in transmitting the position information of the user terminal, the informing control unit periodically transmits at least one of the position information of the user terminal and the environment information received from the user terminal.

16. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, wherein in transmitting the position information of the user terminal, the communication unit exchanges information with the user terminal through a wireless LAN SSID.

17. The method for informing of children-protection according to claim 10, wherein in transmitting the position information of the user terminal, the communication unit transmits entrance information for informing a vehicle which enters the school zone of entering the school zone.