JP2004221736A - Doorphone system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a doorphone system capable of allowing a plurality of houses to easily share information of persons whose visit is undesirable and which is desirably shared so as to enhance the security. <P>SOLUTION: The doorphone system is provided with: a doorphone slave unit 1 for acquiring personal particular information of visitors; a shared database 41 for storing the personal particular information of visitors whose reception is unnecessary and sharing the information by a plurality of houses; and a doorphone master unit 2 for generating a call tone only when the personal particular information of visitors is dissident with the personal particular information registered in the shared database, the shared database is shared among a plurality of the houses to avoid the doorphone from ringing in all of a plurality of the houses even when the visitor makes a second visit by having only to register the visitor by one house to the shared database. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a door phone device with a nuisance prevention function.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an intercom apparatus, one shown in FIG. 6 has been known.
The conventional intercom apparatus shown in FIG. 6 is configured as a telephone apparatus by a main apparatus 101, a key telephone (child unit) 105, a television intercom 106, a CPU 114, an image processing unit 119, and an image memory 120. . (For example, see Patent Document 1).
In the intercom apparatus configured as described above, when a calling operation is performed on the TV intercom 106, the image data from the TV camera of the TV intercom 106 is received and processed by the image processing unit 119 of the main device 101, and the image data is processed. A comparison process is performed between the processed image data and image data registered in the image memory 120 in advance, and if the image data matches the registered image data, the CPU 114 causes the key telephone (child device) 105 to sound a ring tone. An instruction is given, and a ring tone is sounded at the key telephone (child device) 105.
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-09-107399,
(3rd and 4th pages, paragraph numbers 0007 to 0015, drawing number FIG. 3).
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In the above-mentioned conventional intercom apparatus, since a database is constructed in each dwelling unit, there is a problem that it takes extra time to register the same visitor in a plurality of dwelling units.
Sharing information about door-to-door sales and suspicious individuals among multiple dwelling units can improve security, but conventional door intercom devices must be set individually, which makes it difficult to share information. Was.
In addition, since the person who rings the doorphone is registered, many visitors must register in dwelling units with a wide friendship, and there is a problem that the registration requires a lot of trouble.
In addition, since information on suspicious persons, criminals, etc. is not registered, there is no means to identify that such a person has been visited, so no report is sent to the police, etc., and the surrounding security is not improved. was there.
In addition, when the resident is absent, there is no means for contacting the resident related to the visitor or the neighborhood where the reception was requested, and there was a problem that the visitor was uncomfortable because the resident was not able to respond.
[0005]
The present invention has been made in order to solve such a conventional problem, and a door phone device that can easily share information of a person who does not want to visit to be shared by a plurality of dwelling units and improves security is provided. To provide.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The door phone apparatus according to the present invention includes a door phone handset that acquires personal identification information of a visitor, a shared database that stores personal identification information of a visitor who does not need to respond and is shared by a plurality of dwelling units, and personal identification information of a visitor. Has an intercom base unit that generates a ringing tone only when it does not match the personal identification information registered in the shared database. With this configuration, the shared database is shared by a plurality of dwelling units, so that a visitor can be registered in the shared database at a certain dwelling unit, and the intercom can be used even if the visitor returns to all of the plurality of dwelling units. It becomes possible not to sound. In addition, by registering only persons who do not ring the doorphone, it is possible to save the trouble of registration even in dwelling units with a wide friendship.
[0007]
The door phone apparatus according to the present invention has a configuration in which the personal identification information is an image or feature of the visitor that can identify the visitor. According to this configuration, the visitor who does not need to be handled can be accurately identified by adopting a prominent feature such as the face image of the visitor or the mole as the personal identification information for determining whether or not to accept the visitor.
[0008]
The door phone apparatus according to the present invention has a configuration in which the door phone master unit has a service registration unit for registering whether or not there is a future service for the visitor recorded in the shared database. With this configuration, the visitor information can be stored in the shared database at each dwelling unit of the apartment house, and doorphones can be provided to visitors registered in the shared database at other dwelling units in accordance with the request of each dwelling unit. You can decide whether to sound or not.
[0009]
The door phone device according to the present invention has a configuration in which the registration of the future response to the visitor recorded in the shared database is performed for each dwelling unit and for each visitor. With this configuration, it is possible to determine whether or not to respond to the visitor in the future based on the judgment of each dwelling unit, so that even for the visitor registered in the shared database, the intercom can be sounded according to the request of each dwelling unit. It becomes possible to.
[0010]
In the intercom apparatus according to the present invention, the shared database registers a report destination for reporting a visit for each visitor together with the visitor's personal identification information, and the intercom master device registers the visitor's personal identification information in the shared database. And reporting means for reporting to the report destination when the information coincides with the personal identification information. With this configuration, when a visitor requiring a report is confirmed, the report can be automatically made to the report destination.
[0011]
A computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention has a configuration in which personal identification information of a visitor registered in the shared database according to any one of claims 1 to 5 and report destination data for each personal identification information are recorded. Have. With this configuration, it is possible to easily acquire information on whether or not the visitor can respond and report destination information recorded in the shared database using another computer.
[0012]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, first to third embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
(First Embodiment)
First, the configuration of the door phone device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The intercom slave unit 1 with a television camera of the first intercom unit 31 of the first dwelling unit shown in FIG. 1 includes a television camera 10 that captures an image in front of the television camera and outputs the image as an image signal, and a television camera 10 A sub-unit microphone 11 and a sub-unit speaker 12 used by a visitor in front of the intercom unit 1 to establish a call with a resident in front of the intercom unit 2 with a television monitor, and the intercom unit 2 with a television monitor. A call button 13 used for calling a call, a video image picked up by the television camera 10, a voice collected from the slave unit microphone 11, and a press signal of the call button are multiplexed and transmitted. And a multiplexing circuit 14 for receiving the audio input in the multiplexing circuit 2. It has been continued.
[0013]
Also, as shown in FIG. 1, the intercom master unit 2 with the television monitor of the intercom apparatus according to the present embodiment separates the video and audio received from the intercom unit 1 with the television camera from the pressing signal of the call button 13, and A multiplexing circuit 20 for transmitting the audio input from the TV 29; a video signal control circuit 22 for outputting a video signal captured by the television camera 10 of the intercom unit 1 with a television camera; and a video signal output from the video signal control circuit 22. A face image recognition device 23 that cuts out a visitor's face image and determines whether or not the face image is the same person as the face image registered in the shared database 41, and a TV camera with a video signal output from the video signal control circuit 22 Shared with a TV monitor 21 that displays the image of the visitor captured by the TV camera 10 of the door phone handset 1 and the face image recognition device 23 A ring tone generation switching unit 25 for instructing to generate a ring tone when it is determined that the person is the same person as the face image registered in the database 41; a ring tone generation circuit 26 for generating a ring tone; A speaker 27 that sounds a ringing tone when the intercom master unit 2 with a television monitor is called from the slave unit 1 with a television monitor and the ringing tone generation switching unit 25 determines that a ringing tone is generated; A handset 29 used by a resident in front of the handset 2 to establish a call with a visitor in front of the handset 1 with a television camera, and an audio signal for appropriately processing an audio signal transmitted and received by the handset 29 The control circuit 28 and the visitor's personal identification information (details) that can be shared by the multiple dwelling units (first dwelling unit 31, second dwelling unit 32,..., Third dwelling unit 33) And a registration button 30 for instructing the door phone master unit 2 with a television monitor to register a face image of a visitor who does not want to respond in each dwelling unit to the shared database 41 in the future. It consists of.
[0014]
Next, an operation of the door phone device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. First, an image captured by the television camera 10 of the intercom slave unit 1 with the television camera of the intercom apparatus 31 of the first dwelling unit is registered in the shared database 41 in advance by the face image recognition device 23 of the intercom master unit 2 with the television monitor. It is determined whether or not the face image matches any one of the face images. When it is determined from the recognition result by the face image recognition device 23 that the captured image does not match all the face images registered in the shared database 41, the ringing tone generation switching unit 25 sends the ringing tone generation circuit 26 A ringing tone is instructed, a ringing tone is generated by a ringing tone generating circuit 26, and a ringing tone is sounded by a speaker 27. Conversely, if any one of the face images matches, the ringing tone generation circuit 26 does not issue a ringing tone generation instruction, and as a result, does not cause the speaker 27 to ring.
[0015]
Further, as a result of the reception, for the visitor whose resident does not wish to respond in the future, the registration button 30 is pressed, and the face image of the visitor cut out by the face image recognition device 23 is stored in the shared database 41. register.
Further, only the visitors who do not ring the doorphone are registered in the shared database 41, not the visitors who ring the doorphone. The reason for this is that, when a visitor who rings a door phone is registered in the shared database 41, the friendship relationship often differs greatly from one dwelling unit to another, so that many persons must be registered in each dwelling unit. However, if only the visitors who do not ring the doorphone are registered in the shared database 41, it is possible to register persons who do not want to respond in all the dwelling units, such as door-to-door sales and suspicious persons, so that the entire dwelling unit can be registered. This is because a more useful shared database can be constructed for.
[0016]
The data of the shared database 41 may be transferred to a place other than the dwelling unit via a network, or may be recorded on a removable hard disk, a memory, or the like so that the data can be used outside the dwelling unit. An example of use outside the dwelling unit is moving to a neighborhood.In this case, the shared database is made up of removable hard disks and memory, or the house before and after the move is shared over a network, etc. If the data of the database can be transferred, the data can be copied to the shared database 41 at the moving destination and used.
[0017]
In addition, the person registered in the shared database 41 does not generate a ringing sound in common to all the dwelling units using the shared database 41, including the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit and the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit. I do. Note that, similarly to the case of the doorphone device 31 of the first dwelling unit, the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit and the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit can be registered in the shared database 41. In addition, data can be exchanged with a database of a public institution such as the police. For example, the police may register a criminal or a person requiring attention in the shared database 41.
[0018]
Note that the door phone master unit 2 with a television monitor may be provided with a function of deleting face image data registered in the shared database 41. For a person whose data has been deleted, when the relevant dwelling unit or the entire apartment building is visited thereafter, the state changes from a state in which the ringing tone does not sound to a state in which the ringing tone sounds.
In the present embodiment, the personal identification information of a visitor to be stored in the shared database 41 and to be recognized as to whether or not to respond to the visitor has been described as a face image. Instead, characteristic information that can be extracted from a face image may be recorded. For example, information such as the shape of the eyes, nose, and mouth, the shape of the face, the position of the mole, and the like are also included.
The recognition target need not be only a face image, but may be another recognition target, for example, an image other than a voice or a face image, or may be used together with a face image.
[0019]
According to such a door phone apparatus of the first embodiment of the present invention, a shared database is shared by a plurality of dwelling units, and by using the shared database as a shared database, a visitor who has visited a certain dwelling unit is registered. By simply registering with the button in the shared database, it is possible to prevent the doorphone from ringing even if the visitor returns to all of the multiple dwelling units, and it is necessary to register the visitor individually in multiple dwelling units Therefore, information that is desired to be shared by a plurality of dwelling units, such as door-to-door sales and suspicious persons, can be easily shared without hassle, and security can be improved.
[0020]
(Second embodiment)
Next, a configuration of a door phone device according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The intercom apparatus according to the present embodiment is different from the intercom apparatus according to the first embodiment in that a reception registration button 34 for registering the presence or absence of a future response to a person recorded in the shared database 41 is added. Is different. Note that the reception registration button 34 may be provided with a button for calling a specific person recorded in the shared database 41 or the like. The other components are the same as those of the first embodiment, and thus the detailed description is omitted.
[0021]
Next, an operation of the door phone device according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description of the operation, only points different from the operation in the first embodiment will be described.
After registering the visitor in the shared database 41, each dwelling unit can select and register whether or not to ring the intercom by operating the response registration button 34 for each visitor.
Hereinafter, how the response information determined in each dwelling unit is recorded in the shared database 41 will be described with reference to FIG. When registering the presence or absence of reception, the presence or absence of reception for the visitor is registered while displaying the image of the visitor stored in the shared database 41. That is, by operating the response registration button 34, an image of a desired visitor is called from the shared database 41, and is input to the face image recognition device and to the television monitor 21 to display the image of the called visitor. The operator determines “ringing” or “not ringing” a ringing sound as described below while watching the display of the image of the visitor.
[0022]
In the information shown in FIG. 3, “do not ring” does not sound a ringing tone when the visitor (current visitor) visits again. “Ring” means that a ringing tone sounds when the visitor returns.
In the registration information of FIG. 3, not only the image data of the visitor but also the correspondence of each dwelling unit to the visitor is recorded. For example, for the visitor 1, the doorphone device 31 of the first dwelling unit, the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit, and the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit are set to “do not ring”, and the visitor 2 , Only the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit is set to “ring”, and the doorphone device 31 of the first dwelling unit and the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit are set to “not ring”. For example, only the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit is set to “ring”, and the doorphone device 31 of the first dwelling unit and the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit are set to “not ring”. It can be seen that the doorphone device 32 of the second dwelling unit and the doorphone device 33 of the third dwelling unit are set to “do not ring” and the doorphone device 31 of the first dwelling unit is set to “ring”. The information "sound" and "not sound" can be stored in a simplified manner, such as "sound" if 0 is stored and "sound not" if 1 is stored. No problem. When a visitor is newly registered in the shared database 41, the initial setting of the registered dwelling unit is "do not ring", and the initial setting of the dwelling unit other than the registered dwelling unit is a request of each dwelling unit, a security level around the dwelling unit, and the like. Depending on the situation, it may be set to either “ring” or “not ring”. The face image recognition device 23 extracts from the data stored in the shared database 41 only the face image data of the visitor whose correspondence of the dwelling unit is registered as “do not ring” and performs collation.
The correspondence of each dwelling unit may be appropriately changed from each dwelling unit.
[0023]
According to such a door phone apparatus of the second embodiment of the present invention, for a visitor registered in shared database 41 from another dwelling unit, select whether or not to ring the door phone using the registration button. By doing so, the service information of each dwelling unit can be stored in the shared database 41, so that the doorphone can be sounded according to the demands of each dwelling unit even for visitors registered in the shared database 41. Thus, even if the needs of a plurality of dwelling units become complicated, it is possible to realize a detailed response according to the demands of the dwelling units.
[0024]
(Third embodiment)
Next, a configuration of a door phone device according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The intercom apparatus according to the present embodiment is different from the intercom apparatus according to the first embodiment in that a reporting device 71 connected to a public telephone network 61 is provided. And the second mobile phone 54 is connected. The other components are the same as those of the first embodiment, and thus the detailed description is omitted.
[0025]
Next, an operation of the intercom apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description of the operation, only points different from the operation in the first embodiment will be described.
When the face image of the visitor cut out by the face image recognition device 23 matches the face image registered in the shared database 41, a public telephone network is automatically sent to a report destination corresponding to the visitor recorded in the shared database 41. A report is made via 61, and what kind of person the visitor is and what dwelling unit they visited are broadcast as information. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a telephone number of a report destination is added to the shared database 41 in correspondence with each visitor's image, and when it matches the visitor's 2 face image, the police 52, and if it matches the face image of the visitor 3, it reports to the first mobile phone 53; if it matches the face image of the visitor 4, it reports to the second mobile phone 54, and reports If there is no point, it will not be reported anywhere.
It should be noted that the report destination does not need to be only the police or a mobile phone, but may be a terminal such as a general house or an apartment house. For example, in the case where a person who needs to be answered when visiting is absent is likely to visit, the telephone number of the neighborhood where the request was made in advance is registered in the shared database 41 as a report destination, and the registered person visited. In such a case, it is conceivable to automatically report to the neighborhood that is the report destination and have the person respond instead.
[0026]
Also, in the present embodiment, the report route is via the public telephone network, but other report routes may be used. For example, a method using a network such as a LAN / WAN, using a direct connection line between a dwelling unit and a report destination, and using a wireless line exclusively for reporting can be considered. It is desirable that the police and other reporting destinations not only use telephone lines that may be cut off by a criminal in the event of a crime, but also use other routes.
[0027]
According to the intercom apparatus of the third embodiment of the present invention, when the face image recognition device 23 recognizes a visitor who needs a report registered in the shared database 41, the shared database 41 The report device can automatically report to the report destination registered in the, and the trouble of the report can be eliminated. Also, when the face image recognition device 23 recognizes a visitor who needs a report registered in the shared database 41, the report device automatically reports to a report destination registered in advance in association with the visitor. Therefore, the chance of catching a suspicious person, a criminal, or the like is increased, and the security level around is improved. In addition, even when absent, the family or neighborhood can be automatically contacted according to the visitor, and the family or the neighborhood can immediately respond to the visitor. Pleasure can be reduced.
[0028]
【The invention's effect】
The intercom apparatus according to the present invention is configured as described above, and in particular, by providing a shared database that can be shared by a plurality of dwelling units and stores information that can identify an individual regarding a visitor who does not need to be handled, so that a door-to-door sales or a suspicious person can be performed. , Etc., information to be shared by a plurality of dwelling units can be easily shared without trouble, and security can be improved.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a door phone device according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a door phone device according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of recorded contents of a shared database of an intercom apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a door phone device according to a third embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of recorded contents of a shared database of an intercom apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional door phone device.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Intercom handset with a TV camera 2 Intercom master unit with a TV monitor 10 TV camera 11 Handset microphone 12 Handset speaker 13 Call button 14, 20 Multiplex circuit 21 TV monitor 22 Video signal control circuit 23 Face image recognition device 25 Ring tone generation Switching unit 26 Ringing sound generation circuit 27 Speaker 28 Voice signal control circuit 29 Handset 30 Registration button 31 Doorphone device of first dwelling unit 32 Doorphone device of second dwelling unit 33 Doorphone device of third dwelling unit 41 Shared database 52 Police 53 1st mobile phone 54 2nd mobile phone 61 Public telephone network 71 Notification device 101 Main device 105 Key telephone (slave)
114 CPU
119 image processing unit 120 image memory

Claims (6)

A door phone handset that acquires the visitor's personal identification information, a shared database that stores the visitor's personal identification information that is unnecessary to be shared and is shared by multiple dwelling units, and the visitor's personal identification information is registered in the shared database. And a door phone master unit that generates a ringing tone only when the personal information does not match the personal identification information. 2. The intercom apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the personal identification information is an image or a feature of the visitor capable of identifying the visitor. 3. The intercom apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the intercom master unit has a service registration unit for registering whether or not there is a future service for the visitor recorded in the shared database. 4. The intercom apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the registration of the presence or absence of a future response to the visitor recorded in the shared database is performed for each dwelling unit and for each visitor. The shared database registers a report destination for reporting a visit for each visitor together with the visitor's personal identification information, and the intercom master unit registers the visitor's personal identification information with the personal identification information registered in the shared database. The intercom apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a report unit that reports to the report destination when the passwords match. A computer-readable recording medium which records visitor's personal identification information registered in the shared database according to any one of claims 1 to 5, and report destination data for each personal identification information.

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