Monitoring Device Sensor Mapping via Image Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing monitoring systems require a separate user interface for setting up operations and cannot efficiently utilize images captured by monitoring devices to establish sensor locations and event operations, especially when multiple events are supported by a single sensor.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that searches for sensor devices, acquires images of the surroundings, registers location information, and records monitoring information based on events detected in those images, allowing for automatic setup and operation without a separate user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate user interface is used for setting up monitoring operations, then the device can perform precise configuration, but the device complexity increases and ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring device performs self-configuration by automatically capturing images, recognizing sensor locations, and setting up monitoring operations without requiring a separate user interface. The device serves itself by using its own camera to map sensor positions and events, eliminating the need for manual configuration through external interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical user interface system with an automated image-based recognition system. Instead of requiring physical interaction through buttons, screens, or keyboards, the system uses the camera to capture visual information and automatically processes this data to configure monitoring operations, substituting mechanical interaction with optical and computational processes.
2Productivity
If manual input is required for setting sensor locations, then location precision can be ensured, but loss of time increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration actions automatically by capturing images and recognizing sensor locations before actual monitoring begins. The camera captures the physical layout in advance, and the system processes this visual information to pre-establish the mapping between sensors and their locations, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual configuration during deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the camera to create a visual copy or map of the physical environment, which is then processed to extract sensor location information. This visual copying approach replaces manual coordinate input, allowing the system to automatically replicate the physical sensor arrangement in the digital monitoring space without time-consuming manual measurements or inputs.
3Ease of operation
If images are used to register sensor locations, then ease of operation improves, but measurement precision may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an image processing intermediary between the camera capture and the final location determination. The captured images are processed through recognition algorithms that extract precise sensor location information from the visual data. This intermediary processing step ensures that the ease of operation provided by image-based configuration does not compromise measurement precision, as the system can accurately identify sensor positions from the visual information.
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AI summary
A method, device and chipset for a monitoring device connectable with a sensor device monitoring surroundings thereof. The method includes searching for a sensor device, acquiring images for the surroundings of the monitoring device, registering location information corresponding to the sensor device, discovered through searching, using the images, and registering monitoring information including an operation performed in response to an event occuring in the discovered sensor device. The device includes a camera configured to acquire an image; a communication unit configured to transmit/receive a signal in a wired or wireless manner; a storage unit configured to register information; and a controller configured to search for a sensor device, acquire images for the surroundings of the monitoring device, register location information corresponding to the sensor device, discovered through searching, using the images, and register monitoring information including an operation performed in response to an event occurring in the discovered sensor device.