Home monitor
AssigneePractecol, LLC
InventorGreg Siwak
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Abstract
A security system which is designed to provide for 360 degree viewing to allow for the real-time recording of relevant video without the need to rotate a camera into position. The system also provides for the ability to rapidly interpret and refine the image from the 360 degree camera into a format where a human user can rapidly interpret what they are looking at and react to it. In particular, the system allows for quick scanning through the 360 degree image by the user, but also it allows for an immediate focus of the user to a more readily understandable trigger image which is indicative of why the system activated.
Claims20
A security system comprising:
- a monitor including:
- a wide angle lens, said lens being positioned so that a center of an image generated by said lens is generally above said monitor and a periphery of said image generated by said lens displays a 360 degree view in a horizontal plane about said monitor;
- a communication system;
- and
- a plurality of detection apparatus arranged about said monitor so that activation of any particular subset of said plurality of detection apparatus is associated with a known area of said periphery of said image;
- and
- a video viewing device, remote from said monitor;
- wherein upon activation of a subset of said plurality of detection apparatus, said monitor utilizes said communication system to transmit said image generated by said lens to said video viewing device;
- wherein said video viewing device receives said image generated by said lens, and displays only said known area of said periphery of said image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.