Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100219948 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ALARM DEVICE - A communication system provided with a plurality of communication devices which communicate with each other, wherein each of the communication devices includes: a storage device which stores a first code for identifying the communication device to the exclusion of others, and a second code defined so as to differ from other communication devices on the basis of the first code and a predetermined reference value; a transmission device which transmits a signal including the first code and the second code to the other communication devices; a reception device which receives the signals transmitted from the transmission devices of the other communication devices; and a control device which performs calculation using the first code and the second code included in the signal received by the reception device, and the first code stored in the storage device, and identifies the signal according to whether or not the value obtained by the above calculation matches with the second code stored in the storage device. | 09-02-2010 |
20100231770 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE - A solid-state image sensing device has a plurality of pixels, a read-out circuit for reading out electric signals obtained by the photoelectric conversion element, and a signal processing unit for performing signal processing for the electric signal read out from the read-out circuit. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel having a transparent film, a plurality of second pixels each having a first color filter, a plurality of third pixels each having a second color filter, and a plurality of fourth pixels each having a third color filter. The signal processing unit has a color acquisition unit for acquiring a white pixel value and first to third color pixel values, an edge judgment unit, a color separation unit and a single color pixel calculation unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238049 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system of the present invention is provided with a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit is provided with: a transmitting device that performs transmission of signals of a predetermined frequency; and a transmission control device that, through the transmitting device, transmits a first signal containing predetermined information, and a second signal that contains identification information for identifying the receiving unit, to which this first signal is to be transmitted, and that requires, for analyzing this signal, an amount of processing less than that required for the first signal. The receiving unit is provided with: a receiving device that detects the presence or absence of a signal of the predetermined frequency and receives the signal of the predetermined frequency; and a reception control device that, in a case where this receiving device has detected the signal of the predetermined frequency, controls the receiving device to receive the signal of the predetermined frequency only during a first period of time, that determines whether or not the signal received by the receiving device contains the second signal, and that, in a case where this second signal is contained, controls the receiving device to receive the signal of the predetermined frequency only during a second period of time, which is longer than the first period of time. | 09-23-2010 |
20100295677 | ALARM DEVICE AND ALARM SYSTEM - An alarm device includes: a detection device which detects an occurrence of an abnormal condition within a monitoring area; a transmission device which transmits an alarm signal when the detection device detects the abnormal condition; and an output device which, after the transmission device has transmitted the alarm signal, outputs an alarm after a lapse of a predetermined time after the transmission. | 11-25-2010 |
20110018705 | ALARM DEVICE - An alarm device of the invention includes: a transmitting-and-receiving circuit unit which transmits and receives an event signal with other alarm device; an alarming unit which outputs alarm; an operating unit which includes an alarm stopping unit; an interlocking source alarm output processing unit which, upon receiving abnormal-detection signal from a sensor unit which detects abnormality, outputs alarm indicating an interlocking source, and transmits the event signal indicating the abnormality to the other alarm device of an interlocking destination; an interlocking destination alarm output processing unit which, upon receiving event signal indicating the abnormality from the other alarm device, outputs alarm indicating an interlocking destination; an interlocking source alarm stop processing unit which, upon detecting an operation to the alarm stopping unit while outputting the alarm indicating the interlock source, transmits the event signal for stopping the alarm to the other alarm device and stops the alarm; and an interlocking destination alarm stop processing unit which stops an output of the alarm indicating the interlocking destination and transmits the event signal for stopping the alarm to the other alarm device, when an operation to the alarm stopping unit is detected while outputting the alarm indicating the interlocking destination, while which stops an output of the alarm indicating the interlocking destination, when the event signal for stopping the alarm from the other alarm device is received, while outputting the alarm indicating the interlocking destination. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018706 | ALARM DEVICE AND ALARM SYSTEM - An alarm device of the present invention comprises: a wireless circuit section which wirelessly exchanges event signals with another alarm device; an alert section which outputs an abnormal condition alarm; an operation section which accepts a predetermined operation; and an abnormal condition monitoring section which, upon receiving an abnormal condition detection signal from a sensor section which detects an abnormal condition, outputs said abnormal condition alarm as a linkage source and transmits said event signal indicating an abnormal condition to the other alarm device, and upon receiving said event signal indicating an abnormal condition from said other alarm device, outputs said abnormal condition alarm as a linkage destination. The alarm device further comprises: a linked message management section which registers in a memory table and manages message information associated with said alarm device and message information associated with another device other than the alarm devices; and a linked message processing section which, upon receiving a device-specific event signal from said another device, retrieves said associated message information from said memory table and performs audio output thereof. | 01-27-2011 |
20110025490 | ALARM DEVICE - An alarm device includes: a wireless circuit section which wirelessly exchanges event signals with an other alarm device; an alert section which outputs an alarm; an operation section which accepts predetermined operations; a sensor section which issues an abnormal condition detection signal when an abnormal condition occurred is detected within a monitoring area; an abnormal condition monitoring section which, upon receiving the abnormal condition detection signal from the sensor section, outputs an abnormal condition alarm as a linkage source from the alert section, and transmits an event signal indicating an abnormal condition to the other alarm devices, and conversely, upon receiving an event signal indicating an abnormal condition from the other alarm device, outputs an abnormal condition alarm as a linkage destination from the alert section; a communication test transmission processing section which, at a predetermined timing, transmits an event signal indicating a communication test to the other alarm device and; a communication test reception processing section which, upon receiving an event signal indicating a communication test from the other alarm device, announces the reception status of this event signal. | 02-03-2011 |
20110032114 | Alarming Device - The alarming device of the present invention includes a battery power supply; a sensor section that outputs an anomaly detection signal in the case of detecting an anomaly; a alert section that outputs an anomaly alarm based on the anomaly detection signal; a reception circuit section that receives an event signal from another alarming device; a transmission circuit section that transmits an event signal to the other alarming device; an anomaly monitoring section that, when the sensor section has detected an anomaly, causes the alert section to output the anomaly alarm based on the anomaly detection signal and causes the transmission circuit section to transmit an event signal according to the anomaly of the alarming device to the other alarming device, and on the other hand, when the reception circuit section has received an event signal according to an anomaly of the other alarming device from the other alarming device, causes the alert section to output the anomaly alarm; and a communication control section that detects a predetermined event and performs communication control by adjusting the transmitting and receiving of an event signal by the transmission circuit section and the reception circuit section. | 02-10-2011 |
20110057794 | ALARM - An alarm comprising: a transmission reception circuit unit transmitting and receiving an event signal with an other alarm; a sensor unit detecting an abnormality; an alerting unit outputting an abnormality warning; an abnormality monitoring unit receiving an abnormality detection signal from the sensor unit, while outputting the abnormality warning of a coordination source, and transmitting to the other alarm the event signal indicating an abnormality, meanwhile, outputting the abnormality warning of a coordination end when the event signal indicating an abnormality is received from the other alarm; and an inspection processing unit transmitting to the other alarm an event signal indicating a self inspection result, and, when an event signal indicating an inspection result is received from the other alarm, reporting an inspection result of a plurality of alarms in coordinated relation. | 03-10-2011 |
20120218099 | RELAY METHOD FOR ALARM SYSTEM AND ALARM DEVICE - The relay method for an alarm system of the present invention includes: a third process in which a reception intensity of the acknowledgement signal is measured when the source alarm device receives the acknowledgement signal, and in which, if there are one or more destination alarm devices that have not transmitted the acknowledgement signal among all of the destination alarm devices registered in advance, a destination alarm device that has the lowest reception intensity of the acknowledgement signal is assigned as a relay destination alarm device; and a fourth process in which an abnormality signal is relay-transmitted from the source alarm device, through the relay destination alarm device, to the destination alarm devices that are interconnected with the relay destination alarm device, and then, from the destination alarm device that has received the abnormality signal, a signal indicating that a sender thereof is the destination alarm device is outputted, and also an acknowledgement signal is transmitted to the source alarm device. In addition, when there are one or more all of the destination alarm devices which have not transmitted an acknowledgement signal to the source alarm device among all of the destination the alarm devices registered in advance, the third and fourth processes are repeated. | 08-30-2012 |
20130009775 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ALARM DEVICE - An alarm device including: a reception circuit section; a transmission circuit section; a sensor section which detects abnormal conditions; an alert section; an alarm registration section which, when a registration send mode is in effect to form a linked group, sends a registration event signal containing the transmission source code, and when set to a registration receive mode, registers the transmission source codes contained in event signals received from the other alarm devices in a memory; an abnormal condition monitoring section; and a transmission power switch control section which, when the registration send mode is initiated by the alarm registration section, reduces the transmission power of the transmission circuit section beyond that of normal operation. | 01-10-2013 |