Observation device and observation management system

• US 9,523,791 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2015
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Hanafusa, Norihito, Ido, Yukinori
• Primary Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US14/814,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 25/167 Control by humidity of the soil itself or of devices simulating soil or of the atmosphere; Soil humidity sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/246 for water content for control of watering A01G25/167
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/06 giving a combined indication of weather conditions catathermometers for measuring "cooling value" related either to weather conditions or to comfort of other human environment G01W1/17; computers per se G06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

An observation device includes a handle having on a lower end side thereof an end portion including a tapered rod portion. The handle includes a protruding portion that protrudes outwardly from a side of the handle with respect to the tapered rod portion. The handle is formed so as to be held by a user to stick the rod portion into soil in a state that an index finger is applied on the handle from underneath and that a finger pad of a thumb presses against an upper end surface of the handle.

Claims

1. An observation management system comprising:

a portable device; and

an observation device that observes an observation object and that communicates with the portable device,

wherein the observation device comprises;

at least one observation section;

a handle having on a lower end side thereof an end portion comprising a tapered rod portion, the handle comprising a protruding portion that protrudes outwardly from a side of the handle with respect to the tapered rod portion, wherein the handle is formed so as to be held by a user to stick the rod portion into soil in a state that an index finger is applied on the handle from underneath and that a finger pad of a thumb presses against an upper end surface of the handle;

a designating section that designates observation object identification information that identifies a type of the observation object from among a plurality of types of observation objects; and

a transmitting section that transmits an observation result of the at least one observation section to the portable device by wireless communication, and

wherein the portable device comprises;

an image pick-up section, wherein the portable device identifies the type of the observation object by analyzing an image which is picked-up by the image pick-up section; and

an observation result table that receives the observation result from the observation device by the wireless communication and that manages observation results for each of the plurality of types of observation objects.

2. The observation management system according to claim 1, wherein the portable device further comprises an environmental state table that stores an optimal environmental state for each of the plurality of types of observation objects.

3. The observation management system according to claim 1, wherein a correspondence between the observation object identification information and the type of the observation object is set by a user operation.