Asset management system and asset management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11323692-B2
Application number	US-202016910895-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2020
Priority date	Jun 28, 2019
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

In an asset management system, a wearable camera mountable by a police officer and a server that manages information regarding the wearable camera are connected to enable a communication. The wearable camera repeatedly diagnoses whether or not the wearable camera has failure at a predetermined timing, and notifies the server of a diagnosis result. The server is connected to a database, accumulates the diagnosis result of the wearable camera in the database every time the server receives the diagnosis result of the wearable camera, and displays the diagnosis result of the wearable camera on an external terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An asset management system comprising:
plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras is mountable by a police officer or a vehicle; and
a server that is configured to manage information regarding the plurality of cameras, and is communicably connected to the plurality of cameras, wherein:
each of the plurality of cameras repeatedly diagnoses whether or not the camera has a failure at a predetermined timing and sends, to the server, a diagnosis result,
the server is connected to a database, accumulates diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras in the database, and concurrently displays the diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras on an external terminal, and
each of the displayed diagnosis results includes identification information, camera type information, update time information, and status information of a corresponding camera of the plurality of cameras.

2. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the server displays the diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras the external terminal in response to an access from the external terminal.

3. The asset management system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the status information indicates whether or not a battery built in the corresponding camera or an external recording medium inserted into the corresponding camera has the failure, and the update time information indicates an update time point of the diagnosis result of the corresponding camera.

4. The asset management system according to claim 3 , wherein:
in response to a user selecting, on the external terminal, a display region indicating abnormality in the battery or the external recording medium, the server displays details of the abnormality in the battery or the external recording medium.

5. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the server displays a detection notification of abnormal data on the external terminal in a case where the server determines that a diagnosis result of the diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras includes the abnormal data.

6. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the server registers, in the database, position information of a charging stand configured to charge each of the plurality of cameras,
the charging stand sends a first state change signal to the server in response to placement of each of the plurality of cameras on the charging stand, and
in response to the first state change signal being received by the server, the server updates position information of a corresponding camera triggering the first state change signal and registers the updated position information in the database.

7. The asset management system according to claim 6 , wherein:
the charge stand sends a second state change signal to the server in response to removal of each of the plurality of cameras from the charging stand, and
in response to the second state change signal being received by the server, the server updates the position information of a corresponding camera triggering the second state change signal and registers the updated position information of the corresponding camera triggering the second state change signal in the database.

8. The asset management system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the server displays the position information of the corresponding camera on the external terminal in response to an access from the external terminal.

9. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the server registers, in the database, position information of a charging stand configured to charge each of the plurality of cameras,
each of the plurality of cameras sends a first state change signal to the server in response to being placed on the charging stand, and
in response to the first state change signal being received by the server, the server updates position information of a corresponding camera triggering the first state change signal and registers the updated position information in the database.

10. The asset management system according to claim 9 , wherein:
each of the plurality of cameras sends a second state change signal to the server in response to being removed from the charging stand, and
in response to the second state change signal being received by the server, the server updates the position information of a corresponding camera triggering the second state change signal and registers the updated position information of the corresponding camera triggering the second state change signal in the database.

11. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
in response to detection of a connection of a camera of the plurality of cameras to another network different from a network in a police department, the wearable camera is configured to specify position information of the camera, and sends, to the server via the another network, the position information of the camera.

12. The asset management system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the identification information indicates an identifier of the corresponding camera,
the update time information indicates a diagnosis result update time of the corresponding camera, and
the status information indicates a status of a component of the corresponding camera.

13. The asset management system according to claim 12 , wherein:
the status information indicates statuses of a battery and a memory of the corresponding camera.

14. The asset management system according to claim 12 , wherein:
the server displays component information on the external terminal, in response to a user selecting the status on the external terminal.

15. An asset management method performed by an asset management system including a plurality of cameras and a server, each of the plurality of cameras is mountable by a police officer or a vehicle, the server is configured to manage information regarding the plurality of cameras and is communicably connected to the plurality of cameras and a database, the asset management method comprising:
repeatedly diagnosing, by each of the plurality of cameras, whether or not the camera has a failure at a predetermined timing and sending, to the server, a diagnosis result;
accumulating, by the server, diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras in the database; and
concurrently displaying, by the server, the diagnosis results of the plurality of cameras on an external terminal, wherein:
each of the displayed diagnosis results includes identification information, camera type information, update time information, and status information of a corresponding camera of the plurality of cameras.

16. An asset management system comprising:
a wearable camera that is mountable by a police officer; and
a server that is configured to manage information regarding the wearable camera and is communicably connected to the wearable camera, wherein:
the wearable camera repeatedly diagnoses whether or not the wearable camera has a failure at a predetermined timing and sends, to the server, a diagnosis result,
the server is connected to a database, accumulates the diagnosis result in the database in response to the diagnosis result of the wearable camera being received by the server, and displays the diagnosis result of the wearable camera on an external terminal,
the server registers, in the database, position information of a charging stand configured to charge each of a plurality of wearable cameras,
the charging stand sends a first state change signal to the server in response to placement of each of the plurality of wearable cameras on the charging stand, and

Assignees

• Panasonic I Pro Sensing Solutions Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hagio Minoru
• Hamada Junichi
• Nomoto Masahiro
• Arai Shinichi

Classifications

• H04N23/66

  Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices · CPC title

• H04N23/60

  Control of cameras or camera modules · CPC title

• H04N23/54

  Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils · CPC title

• H04N17/002 Primary

  for television cameras · CPC title

• H04N21/25808

  Management of client data (terminal profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/303) · CPC title