US 7,460,655 B2
	Picture phone monitor system
Tomonori Fujisawa, Tokyo (Japan); and Shouji Satou, Kuroiso (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/514,541 PCT Filed May 27, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/06627 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 12, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/101108, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 04, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-154786 (JP), filed on May 28, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0179773 A1, Aug. 18, 2005
Int. Cl. H04M 11/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 379—106.01  [379/102.01; 348/14.02]

8 Claims

1. A picture telephone monitoring system with a picture telephone in a monitoring side and a picture telephone in an operating side connected to each other, wherein the picture telephone in the monitoring side is connected to an operation console comprising a sensor for sensing an intruder, a displacing means for changing a view field of a camera associated with the picture telephone in the monitoring side, a sound pickup microphone, a speaker for outputting an audio signal transmitted from the picture telephone in the operating side and received by the picture telephone in the monitoring side via an earphone terminal thereof, and a set value accumulating section for recording therein a telephone number of or an in-coming dial tone from the picture telephone in the operating side, and wherein the operation console further comprises a voice and sound recognizing section for recogizing the audio signal transmitted from the picture telephone in the operating side and received by the picture telephone in the monitoring side via the earphone terminal thereof as an operation signal for the displacing means or a light for supplementing brightness for the camera.