Low-power security and intrusion monitoring system and method based on variation detection of sound transfer characteristic

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9240113-B2
Application number	US-201113270444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2011
Priority date	Oct 12, 2010
Publication date	Jan 19, 2016
Grant date	Jan 19, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for measuring a acoustic transfer function of a predetermined space to be secured or monitored through a correlation between sound signals acquired from a sound source generating device and a sound measuring device and a method and a system for judging whether there is an intrusion object by using a difference between an initially set acoustic transfer function information and varied acoustic transfer function information by using the method for measuring the transfer function. In the present disclosure, when an object moves or an intrusion object is generated in a predetermined space, intrusion or no intrusion is monitored by variation of the acoustic transfer function varied by the intrusion object even though there is no noise generated by the intrusion object.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A low-power security and monitoring system based on variation measurement of a sound transfer characteristic, the system comprising:
a sound source generating device that outputs a sound wave of an audible frequency band having a predetermined frequency band within a predetermined monitoring space; and
a sound measuring device that:
calculates an acoustic wave transfer function, which is a unique characteristic value of the monitoring space and based on the sound wave outputted from the sound source generating device; and
determines an intrusion into the monitoring space based on a comparison of an acoustic wave transfer function based on the sound wave and measured in a monitoring mode with an acoustic wave transfer function based on the sound wave and measured in an initial setting mode; and

wherein, when the sound measuring device determines no intrusion into the monitoring space, the monitoring mode of the sound source generating device switches to a low power mode in which the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave having a lowest voltage level to be able to detect variation in the acoustic wave transfer function, and
wherein, when the sound measuring device determines the intrusion into the monitoring space, the monitoring mode of the sound source generating device switches to a high reliability mode in which the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave by increasing a voltage level of the sound wave in a stepwise manner.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic wave transfer function measured in the monitoring mode is a sound pressure transfer function that represents a unique sound transfer characteristic of the monitoring space.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave as a music or melody type sound wave.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave by combining a sound wave in a low-frequency range in which a diffraction phenomenon by an obstacle or an intrusion object is large in the monitoring space and a sound wave in a high-frequency range in which a reflection phenomenon is large.

5. A low power security and monitoring method based on variation detection of a sound transfer characteristic, the method comprising:
outputting, by a sound source generating device, a sound wave of an audible frequency band having a predetermined frequency band within a predetermined monitoring space;
receiving, by a sound measuring device, the sound wave outputted from the sound source generating device;
calculating, by the sound source measuring device, an acoustic wave transfer function, which is a unique characteristic value of the monitoring space, based on the received sound wave; and
determining, by the sound source measuring device, an intrusion into the monitoring space by comparing a sound pressure transfer function measured in a monitoring mode with a sound pressure transfer function measured in an initial setting mode,
wherein, when the sound measuring device determines no intrusion into the monitoring space, the monitoring mode of the sound source generating device switches to a low power mode in which the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave having a lowest voltage level to be able to detect variation in the acoustic wave transfer function, and
wherein, when the sound measuring device determines the intrusion into the monitoring space, the monitoring mode of the sound source generating device switches to a high reliability mode in which the sound source generating device outputs the sound wave by increasing a voltage level of the sound wave in a stepwise manner for determining the intrusion.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
acquiring the sound pressure transfer function by expressing an output sound pressure signal to an input voltage signal using a complex number or an intensity ratio and a phase difference.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the outputting of the sound wave, the sound wave is outputted as a music or melody type sound wave.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein in the outputting of the sound wave, the sound wave is outputted by combining a sound wave in a low-frequency range in which a diffraction phenomenon by an obstacle or an intrusion object is large in the monitoring space and a sound wave in a high-frequency range in which a reflection phenomenon is large.

Assignees

• Lee Sung Q
• Park Kang-Ho
• Korea Electronics Telecomm

Inventors

• Lee Sung Q
• Park Kang-Ho

Classifications

• G08B13/1609 Primary

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• G01S15/04

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