Monitoring system
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKei Arakawa, Daisuke Wakeyama, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Abstract
In a monitoring system, a master device stores setting information indicating a detection area of a target detected by a sensor in a storage unit, and transmits the setting information to a camera (a baby monitoring camera) having a sensor built thereinto or correlated with a sensor so as to set a detection parameter including the detection area therein. When a predetermined state set by the detection parameter is detected inside the detection area by the camera, a master device transmits detection notification information to a smartphone, and the smartphone displays a detection information screen based on the detection notification information transmitted from the master device on a display/input unit.
Claims20
A monitoring system comprising:
- a sensor, which is not a camera;
- a camera associated with the sensor, the camera including an imager and a communicator;
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- a master device that, in operation, performs wireless communication with the communicator of the camera according to a communication protocol, performs wireless communication with one or more cordless handsets according to the communications protocol, and is connected to a fixed telephone network to communicate with other fixed telephones, wherein the master device includes a storage configured to store a non-detection area of the sensor wherein the non-detection area is based on an image, which is captured by the camera and divided into multiple selectable sections, and one or more of the multiple selectable sections are selected by a user to form the non-detection area that corresponds to a stationary position represented in the image;
- wherein the master device, in operation, transmits the non-detection area to the sensor to set the non-detection area in the sensor,
- the sensor, when detecting a defined state within an area other than the non-detection area, transmits a detection notification to the master device, and
- the master device, when receiving the detection notification from the sensor, transmits detection notification information about the detection notification, via a wireless router, to a smartphone that is connected to a mobile phone network to communicate with other mobile telephones, for display on the smartphone.
A monitoring method based on a monitoring system, the monitoring system comprising:
- (a) a sensor, which is not a camera, (b) a camera associated with the sensor, the camera including an imager and a communicator, and (c) a master device that, in operation, performs wireless communication with the communicator of the camera according to a communications protocol, performs wireless communication with one or more cordless handsets according to the communications protocol, and is connected to a fixed telephone network to communicate with other fixed telephones, the monitoring method comprising:
- storing, in the master device, a non-detection area of the sensor that is based on an image, which is captured by the camera and divided into multiple selectable sections, wherein one or more of the multiple selectable sections are selected by a user to form the non-detection area that corresponds to a stationary position represented in the image;
- transmitting, from the master device, the non-detection area to the sensor to set the non-detection area in the sensor,
- detecting, at the sensor, a defined state within an area other than the non-detection area,
- transmitting, from the sensor that has detected the defined state, a detection notification to the master device,
- receiving, at the master device, the detection notification from the sensor, and
- transmitting, from the master device that has received the detection notification, detection notification information about the detection notification, via a wireless router, to a smartphone that is connected to a mobile phone network to communicate with other mobile telephones, for display on the smartphone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.