Security device comprising a plurality of interfaces

• US 8,294,574 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2007
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Helen Theresa Haywood
• Original Assignee: Helen Theresa Haywood
• Inventors: Haywood, Helen Theresa
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): TANG, SIGMUND N
• Application Number:
  US12/281,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20090072988A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,057 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.84, 340/539.11, 340/686.4, 340/540, 340/541, 340/539.14, 340/539.16, 340/286.01, 340/542, 379/159, 379/15, 379/157, 379/164, 379/170, 379/171, 379/37, 379/38
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0604 using filtering, e.g. reduction of information by using priority, element types, position or time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0627 by acting on the notification or alarm source
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/025 Door telephones adapted for television H04N7/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A security device comprising interfacing means incorporating a speaker (50) and a microphone (49) for interfacing with a person; a mobile network transmitter; an internet communication means; a controller which automatically responds to interaction with said interfacing means and firstly employs said mobile network transmitter to dial one or more predetermined phone numbers through a mobile network for directly establishing a two way communication across the mobile network; wherein said controller secondly employs said internet communication means for transmission through the internet of data captured by said interfacing means.

Claims

1. A security device system comprising:

a premise entrance intercom system, comprising;

interfacing means incorporating a speaker and a microphone for interfacing with a person; and

a mobile network transmitter;

a base unit system located in the premise, comprising;

a mobile internet communication means;

a controller which automatically responds to interaction with said interfacing means via said mobile network transmitter to firstly activate a doorbell audible alarm and dial a series of predetermined phone numbers in a pre-determined order, the controller initiating the dialing simultaneously with the activation of the audible alarm, and the dialing facilitated by a mobile network for establishing a two way communication across the mobile network between the mobile network transmitter and a communication device associated with an answered dialed phone number;

wherein said controller secondly employs said mobile internet communication means for transmission through the internet of video or multimedia data captured by said interfacing means to said communication device.

2. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising means for translating between audio signals and a mobile text message.

3. A security device system according to claim 2, wherein said means for translating comprises translating a mobile text message into audio signals for sounding by said speaker.

4. A security device system according to claim 2, wherein said means for translating comprises translating received audio signals captured by said microphone into a mobile text message.

5. A security device system according to claim 1, wherein said controller employs said mobile internet communication means in communication with a remote web location for storing and retrieving data captured by said interfacing means.

6. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) port for receiving a dedicated network module.

7. A security device system in accordance with claim 6, wherein said SIM incorporates a first key and said device system incorporates a corresponding second key in order to lock said SIM for operation with said device system.

8. A security device system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising means for interacting with an alarm;

whereby a person remotely triggers an alarm through the mobile network communication.

9. A security device system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a security means which opens the communication with said interface means upon receipt of a communication with a predetermined authorisation code from a remote person.

10. A security device system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an audio storage means.

11. A security device system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising at least one port for attachment of at least one peripheral module.

12. A security device system in accordance with claim 11, wherein said at least one peripheral module is a wireless local area network module.

13. A security device system according to either of claims claim 11, wherein said at least one peripheral module communicates with at least one remote camera.

14. A security device system according to either of claims claim 11, wherein said at least one peripheral module communicates with at least one remote illumination means.

15. A security device system according to claim 11, wherein said at least one peripheral module is a removable memory store.

16. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising a number of detection means such as proximity sensory and a memory storing a number of predetermined short messages corresponding to the triggering of an individual detection means and means to transmit said short message to a remote person to inform said person that a detection means has been triggered.

17. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising a camera and means to locally store visual data without any means being provided to transmit said visual data through said mobile network.

18. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising a switch wherein the approach of a person to the remote unit activates illumination means to illuminate said switch.

19. A security device system according to claim 1, further comprising a camera and lighting means;

wherein when the camera is activated said lighting means illuminate selected areas.

20. A security system according to claim 16, wherein the number of detection means comprises proximity sensors.

40. The system of claim 1, wherein the two way communication comprises an Internet video communication.

42. The system of claim 1, wherein the predetermined order comprises dialing one of the series of predetermined phone numbers simultaneously with dialing another of the series of phone numbers.

21. An intercom security system, comprising:

a remote unit located at a premise entrance, comprising an interfacing means for interfacing with a person;

a base unit, comprising;

a status indicator for a switch indicating a first status or a second status, wherein the first status corresponds to an occupant being at the premise and the second status corresponds to an occupant being way from the premise;

a control module, coupled to the switch, configured to;

establish two-way communications with the base unit thereby activating a doorbell audible alarm responsive to the activation of the interfacing means by the person;

dial a series of telephone numbers in a predetermined order, the dialing initiated simultaneously with the activation of the audible alarm;

the switch, coupled to the control module, configured to generate a signal when activated;

wherein, in operation;

the switch generates the signal to indicate the first or second status based on a user setting;

the control module, in response to the signal, establishes two-way communications by the occupant of the premise with the person at the remote unit when the status indicator is associated with the first status;

the control module, in response to the signal, initiates dialing the series of telephone numbers in the predetermined order when the status indicator is associated with the second status to establish two-way communications by a dialed person with the person at the remote unit.

22. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising:

A detector;

A camera coupled to the detector;

Wherein, in operation;

The detector detects a presence of the person;

The camera captures an image of the person when the presence of the person is detected.

23. The remote unit of claim 22, wherein the image is a first image, and wherein in operation the camera captures a second image at a time interval after the presence of the person is detected.

24. The remote unit of claim 22, wherein the image is saved with a timestamp.

25. The remote unit of claim 22, wherein the detector triggers an illumination unit when the presence of the person is detected.

26. The remote unit of claim 21, wherein the person is a first person, further comprising an authorisation access module configured to assign an access code to the first person and notify a second person of an identity of the first person.

27. The remote unit of claim 26, further comprising a camera to capture an image of the first person.

28. The remote unit of claim 26, wherein the authorization access module is further configured to notify the second person of the identity of the first person in a text messages.

29. The remote unit of claim 21, wherein the control module is operable to establish two-way communications between the person and a communications device associated with one of the series of telephone numbers.

30. The remote unit of claim 29, wherein the two-way communications between the person and the communications device comprises a text message.

31. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising a microphone and a speaker, each of the microphone and the speaker to facilitate the two-way communications with the base unit.

32. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising a video screen to facilitate the two-way communications with the base unit.

33. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising speech recognition circuitry to facilitate the two-way communications with the base unit.

34. The remote unit of claim 21, wherein the control module initiates dialing the series of telephone numbers in the predetermined order when the signal associated with operation of the switch is not generated within a time interval after a detector detects the presence of a person.

35. The remote unit of claim 21, wherein the control unit uses an Internet connection to dial the series of telephone numbers.

36. The remote unit of claim 21, wherein the series of telephone numbers includes a mobile telephone number.

37. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising a biometric scanning device to grant access based on biometric data of the person.

38. The remote unit of claim 21, further comprising a storage unit configured to activate art array of sensors, each of the array of sensors corresponding to a zone of a property to which access is restricted.

41. The system of claim 21, wherein the two-way communications comprises an Internet video communication.

43. The system of claim 21, wherein the predetermined order comprises dialing one of the series of predetermined phone numbers simultaneously with dialing another of the series of phone numbers.

39. A method, comprising:

detecting a presence of a first person at the entrance to a premise by a remote unit;

capturing an image of the first person at the entrance by the remote unit;

dialing, using a mobile network, a series of telephone numbers in a predetermined order responsive to the detected presence;

establishing two-way Internet video communications between the first person and a communications device associated with one of the series of predetermined telephone numbers responsive to the dialing;

establishing two-way video communications of the remote unit with a base unit, activating a doorbell audible alarm simultaneously with the initiation of the dialing of the series of telephone numbers;

assigning an access code to the first person if the first person is authorized to pass through the entrance;

notifying a second person that the first person has passed through the entrance.