186 results about "Remote observation" patented technology

By using monitoring data, feedback data, and pooling of failure data from a plurality of electronic devices, real-time failure prediction and diagnoses of electronic systems operating in a network environment can be achieved. First, the diagnostic system requests data on the state of a machine and/or its components and collections thereof as part of the machine's normal operation. Secondly, real-time processing of the data either at the machine site or elsewhere in the distributed network allows for predicting or diagnosing system failures. Having determined and/or predicted a system failure, a communication to one or more remote observers in the network allows the remote observers to view the diagnostic information and/or required action to repair the failure. Furthermore, interrogation of either the particular electronic system, or a database containing data on similar electronic systems by the diagnostic server allows the diagnostic server to refine original diagnoses based on this population data to achieve a comprehensive failure predication/diagnosing system.

A remote viewing system is disclosed for providing video and/or audio surveillance of an entry or doorway of a building. The system is provided within the panels of the entry or doorway door. A video camera is positioned within the panels to obtain video images of the entryway or doorway and to transmit them via Bluetooth wireless connection to a remote viewing station. The Wireless driver for the camera can be located in or adjacent to the door panel. Video and audio data can be transmitted from the driver to any of a variety of Bluetooth enabled electronic devices, including PCs, PDAs, cell phones, and the like.

A remote observation system and a method thereof includes: a robot cleaner for capturing images from the surroundings of a preset patrol path while traveling the preset patrol path and outputting image signals of the images captured from the surroundings when a mode of the robot cleaner is switched to the patrol mode by user's input signal; and a network connection device for transmitting the image signals outputted from the robot cleaner to user equipment through a communications network.

A trampoline exercise system that is designed to show an avatar of a user, which is jumping on a trampoline. The exercise system includes a computer module, a trampoline configured to provide a platform for a user to perform exercises thereon, and a sensor module designed to sense movements of a user performed on the trampoline. The sensor module provides information that is received by the computer module that controls the display of a users' avatar on a video monitor in response to the users' motion on the trampoline. Several types of sensor may be used to sense the movement of the user, including body mounted sensors, trampoline mounted sensors, and remote viewing sensors.

A surveillance system and method for remote viewing of inputs associated with at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) monitoring a target environment, and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, including the steps of providing base system and at least one user accessing the DIR or ICD(s) via user interface remotely from a remote viewing device.

A digital image capture device streams captured images (e.g. low-resolution images) to a remote viewer terminal, along with image identifiers and/or device position information. The remote viewer terminal displays the images for viewing by a remote viewer. The remote viewer provides inputs to a user interface, which indicate a direction of desired movement of the image capture device, and/or that the remote viewer wants new images (e.g. high-resolution images) to be captured at a desired position. The user interface inputs are translated into requests, which are transmitted to the image capture device. The image capture device provides movement prompts that direct a device operator to move the device in a requested direction or toward a requested position. When a position of the device corresponds to a requested image capture position, the image capture device captures one or more new images, and transmits the new images to the remote viewer terminal.

A marking system that allows remote observations of visual and infrared electromagnetic signatures emitted from a distinctive marker panel. A kit employing such panels is particularly suitable for military environments, which, in turn, enhances the survivability of military equipment. The marking system preferably provides a signature in the mid and far infrared and near infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such that the electromagnetic radiation can be observed by a pilot in an approaching moving object such as a plane, helicopter, or land vehicle that is equipped with a thermal imaging system or light intensifier device, even in adverse environmental conditions. In varying embodiments, the marking system may be used as a landing marker, a bore sight panel, and an identification panel. Utilization of passive infrared material enables use of such marking system when external power is unavailable.

A scanner is programmed with the capability to send images via a parallel port and report data via a serial port to a remote device, both images and report data being identified by the same study identifier. In particular, the images are sent out an Ethernet port in DICOM format, while the report data is sent out an RS232 port in ASCII format. The scanner preferably includes memory storing a frame of image data belonging to a study and report data belonging to said study; a parallel port; a serial port; and a computer programmed to perform the following steps: joining a study identifier with the frame of image data; sending the frame of image data and the study identifier in a first format out the parallel port; joining the study identifier with the report data; and sending the report data and the study identifier in a second format out the serial port.

A remote viewing apparatus comprising: a monitor which operatively displays a picture using a video signal; a telescopic pole; and a unit including a camera which operatively outputs a video signal to be used by the monitor; a waterproof camera housing in which the camera is enclosed; a wand which is releasably retained at one end of the telescopic pole; and a pliable mechanical connector which connects the camera housing to the wand and which can be reversibly bent by hand to, and retain, a curved shape. A plurality of interchangeable units can be provided with additional units having the pliable connector bifurcated in to two arms with the camera housing being provided on one of the arms and an auxiliary device provided on the other of the arms. Examples of auxiliary devices are light sources and magnets.

Heat isolation and relocation systems and methods are provided to enable utilization of a remote viewing device in a wider range of temperature environments and while operating its one or more light sources at or near full power without fear of causing temperature-related harm to the one or more light sources and/or to the imager, even if the imager is positioned nearby the one or more light sources.

This invention relates to an anti-stealing alarm and remote watching and control device, the main part of which information of send and receive process center is a microcomputer, a palm-size computer or an intelligent cell phone, having functions of ordinary computes, palm-size computers and intelligent cell phones. The center installs special anti-stealing alarm monitor software with wireless control interface to control household appliances or other devices, the monitor end has various sensing devices and pick-up devices, users may set parameters of triggering alarm functions for the devices, when the received information meets the alarm conditions, the alarm function is started at once, the picked-up images, pictures and received information are stored in its own memory, and sends information to the remote controller of a user, who can determine if some one has intruded to the monitored places.

Apparatus for remotely viewing and scanning microfilm at a first location, while controlling the viewing and scanning from a remote location, including a viewing and scanning device for generating a video feed and subsequently scanned images of the microfilm, a host computer at the first location in communication with the viewing and scanning device to receive the video feed and the scanned images, a user's computer at a remote location in communication with the host computer to receive the video feed and the scanned images from the host computer, and a virtual film movement control at the user's computer to control the movement of the microfilm at the first location. A virtual camera control at the remote location controls the camera of the viewing and scanning device.

Embodiments of image-based remote observation and alarm device and method for in-car moving objects are disclosed. In some embodiments, the device comprises: an image acquisition module, used for acquiring real-time scene pictures of the space inside a car to generate real-time scene image data, and transmitting the real-time scene image data to an image processing and moving object detection module; the image processing and moving object detection module, used for performing pre-processing and moving object detection analysis on the real-time scene image data, and sending the detection result to an alarm module when detecting a moving object in the space inside the car; and the alarm module, used for receiving the detection result sent by the image processing and moving object detection module, generating an alarm signal and transmitting the alarm signal to a networking terminal in real time.

The invention relates to a security and monitoring all-in-one machine and a remote monitoring system and aims to solve technical problems that existing monitoring systems are monotonous in function and poor in mutual compatibility, etc. The all-in-one machine integrates an area environment monitoring system, a video monitoring system, an entrance guard and an alarm system into one body. The all-in-one machine also includes an embedded-type video main control board and an onboard network module connected with the embedded-type video main control board. Function modules of the various systems are connected with the main control board, and data packets acquired and generated by the function modules are transmitted in real time to the main control board. The onboard network module uploads the data packets in real time to a center cloud server through the Internet. The monitor system comprises the all-in-one machine, the center cloud server and a monitoring center. According to the invention, comprehensive and multi-aspect monitoring can be carried out on monitored areas; and management can be carried out on the monitored areas through a cloud technique platform, so that large-scope monitoring and remote observation can be realized.

The present invention addresses the problem of making it possible to distinguish and detect cracking, peeling, internal cavities, and other defects through the remote observation of a structure. A status determination device according to the present invention is provided with a displacement calculation unit for calculating a two-dimensional spatial distribution of the displacement of a structure surface from time series images of the structure surface before and after load application and an abnormality determination unit for identifying flaws in the structure on the basis of a comparison of the two-dimensional spatial distribution and an already provided spatial distribution of displacement.

A video surveillance apparatus including an optical device that forms a panoramic image and acquisition of the panoramic image by a camera that transmits video information to a remote viewing station, and a device that acquires an image with a non-panoramic angular opening included in a panoramic photographing field, the orientation of the acquisition device being controlled relative to the field of panoramic optical device as a function of a zone of interest detected in the panoramic image.

A method and apparatus for use in a mobile device telemetry system is disclosed. The method and apparatus relate to a telematics furtherance visualization system. The system can sense mobile device remote observation misalignment risk and reconcile mobile device remote observation alignment by communicating a subsequent log of mobile device vector data for rendering a sequence of next positions in the furtherance of a mobile device. The system can also provide an adaptive rendering based upon a phase shift, a log of mobile device vector data, or predictive rendering until receipt of the next subsequent log of mobile device vector data.

The invention relates to a remote communication system, in particular to an acquisition and transmission system of family remote surveillance information. A family remote surveillance system based on a digital set top box, provided in the invention, comprises a family surveillance terminal, a surveillance platform, a surveillance center and a transmission network, wherein the family surveillance terminal, the surveillance platform and the surveillance center are respectively connected with the transmission network. The invention has highly-intelligent characteristic and technical advantages in the aspects of automatic medical surveillance, remote viewing, and the like. With the arrival of aging society, the growth in the living standard of people and the reduction of industrialization cost and network communication cost, the family remote surveillance system is further popularized and generalized to common families and has very wide market application prospect.