METHOD TO INVOKE BACKUP INPUT OPERATION

• US 20160217681A1
• Filed: 01/23/2015
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: GUO, Guanghong
• Application Number:
  US14/603,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20160217681A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/02 Monitoring continuously signalling or alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/16 Security signalling or alarm systems, e.g. redundant systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/185 Signal analysis techniques for reducing or preventing false alarms or for enhancing the reliability of the system

Abstract

An apparatus including a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a processor that detects failure of the touch screen interface based upon a user-modulated parameter of the touch-screen and a processor that activates a back-up user interface based upon the detected failure.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a processor that detects failure of the touch screen interface based upon a user-modulated parameter of the touch-screen; and

a processor that activates a back-up user interface based upon the detected failure.

2. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice interface.

3. The apparatus as in claim 2 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users.

4. The apparatus as in claim 3 further comprising a processor that receives a sequence of digits and disarms the security system in response thereto.

5. The apparatus as in claim 4 further comprising a processor that compares the received sequence of digits with a reference sequence of digits saved in memory.

6. The apparatus as in claim 5 further comprising a processor that verbally annunciates an indicator of status.

7. The apparatus as in claim 6 wherein the verbal annunciation further comprises one or more spoken words.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a processor that measures a quiescent parameter of the touch screen thereby detecting failure of the touch-screen; and

a processor that activates a back-up user interface of a human user based upon the detected failure.

9. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the measured quiescent parameter further comprises resistance.

10. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice-based interface.

11. The apparatus as in claim 10 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users.

12. The apparatus as in claim 11 further comprising a processor that receives a sequence of spoken digits and disarms the security system in response thereto.

13. The apparatus as in claim 12 further comprising a processor that compares the received sequence of spoken digits with a reference sequence of digits saved in memory.

14. The apparatus as in claim 13 further comprising a processor that verbally annunciates an indicator of status through a speaker mounted to a control panel of the security system.

15. The apparatus as in claim 14 wherein the verbal annunciation further comprises one or more spoken words including at least the word disarm.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a touch-screen control panel of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;

a processor that measures a user activated parameter of the touch screen thereby detecting failure of the touch-screen; and

a back-up user interface of the security system that automatically activated in response to the detected failure.

17. The apparatus as in claim 16 further comprising a processor that compares the user activated parameter of the touch screen with a reference value.

18. The apparatus as in claim 17 wherein the user activated parameter further comprises resistance.

19. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice-based interface.

20. The apparatus as in claim 16 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users and that provides audible status reports embodied as spoken words.