Alarm notifying system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9953499-B2
Application number	US-201715479945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2017
Priority date	Apr 23, 2009
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A sound amplification apparatus includes one or more microphones that convert collected sound into an audio signal and transmit the audio signal by radio and a sound receiving apparatus that receives the audio signal transmitted from the microphone and amplifies and outputs the sound based on the audio signal. The sound receiving apparatus is configured to perform sound output control in an emergency mode upon receiving an emergency signal transmitted in response to operation of an emergency switch of the microphone. With this configuration, it is possible to perform appropriate sound control in a dangerous situation such as intrusion of a suspicious person.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for outputting an alert, comprising:
receiving an audio signal transmitted from a first microphone located in a first room;
outputting sound based on the audio signal by a first speaker located in the first room;
receiving an emergency signal transmitted from the first microphone located in the first room in response to a user operating an emergency switch of the first microphone;
non-outputting an audio alert by the first speaker located in the first room in response to receiving the emergency signal; and
outputting an audio alert by a second speaker located in a second room distinct from the first room in response to receiving the emergency signal.

2. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an emergency signal transmitted from a second microphone located in the second room in response to a user operating an emergency switch of the second microphone; and
non-outputting an audio alert by the second speaker located in the second room in response to receiving the emergency signal from the second microphone.

3. The method for outputting an alert of claim 2 , further comprising:
outputting the audio alert by the first speaker located in the first room in response to receiving the emergency signal from the second microphone.

4. The method for outputting an alert of claim 2 , further comprising:
outputting the audio alert by a third speaker located in a third room distinct from the first room and the second room in response to receiving the emergency signal from the second microphone.

5. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
non-outputting the audio alert by a third speaker located in a third room of which location is closer to the first room than the second room in response to receiving the emergency signal.

6. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
outputting sound based on the audio signal by a speaker located in a management room in response to receiving the emergency signal.

7. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
suppressing volume of the sound, based on the audio signal, output by the first speaker in response to receiving the emergency signal.

8. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an external audio signal input from an external audio apparatus;
outputting sound based on the external audio signal by the first speaker; and
suppressing volume of the sound, based on the external audio signal, output by the first speaker in response to receiving the emergency signal.

9. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
stopping outputting the audio alert by the second speaker in response to detecting that an emergency situation is ended.

10. The method for outputting an alert of claim 1 , further comprising:
continuously receiving the emergency signal transmitted from the first microphone; and
stopping outputting the audio alert by the second speaker in response to detecting that transmissions attic emergency signals are stopped.

11. A method fair outputting an alert, comprising:
receiving, via a first network, a first emergency signal transmitted from an emergency transmitter located in a first room;
transmitting, via a second network, a second emergency signal to a receiver located in a management room;
outputting an audio alert by a second speaker located in a second room in response to the receiver receiving the second emergency signal; and
non-outputting the audio alert by a first speaker located in the first room in response to the receiver receiving the second emergency signal.

12. The method for outputting an alert of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving, via the first network, the first emergency signal transmitted from an emergency transmitter located in the second room;
transmitting, via the second network, the second emergency signal to the receiver located in the management room; and
non-outputting the audio alert by the second speaker located in the second room in response to the receiver receiving the second emergency signal from the emergency transmitter located in the second room.

13. The method for outputting an alert of claim 12 , further comprising:
outputting the audio alert by the first speaker located in the first room in response to the receiver receiving the second emergency signal from the emergency transmitter located in the second room.

14. The method for outputting an alert of claim 12 , further comprising:
outputting the audio alert by a third speaker located in a third room in response to the receiver receiving the second emergency signal from the emergency transmitter located in the second room.

15. The method for outputting an alert of claim 11 , wherein the emergency transmitter comprises a microphone that collects sound, converts the collected sound into an audio signal and transmits the audio signal together with the first emergency signal to a sound receiver via the first network, the method further comprising:
suppressing volume of the sound output by the first speaker in response to the sound receiver receiving the first emergency signal.

16. A system for outputting an alert, comprising:
a first receiver that receives an audio signal and an emergency signal from a first sound transmitting apparatus located in a first room;
a management apparatus that connects to a first speaker located in the first room and a second speaker located in a second room distinct from the first room; and
a first emergency outputter that notifies an emergency to the management apparatus when the first receiver receives the emergency signal, wherein:
the management apparatus outputs an audio alert by the second speaker located in the second room when the first emergency outputter notifies the emergency to the management apparatus, and does not output the audio alert by the first speaker located in the first room when the emergency outputter notifies the emergency to the management apparatus.

17. The system for outputting an alert of claim 16 , further comprising:
a second receiver that receives an audio signal and an emergency signal from a second sound transmitting apparatus located in the second room; and
a second emergency outputter that notifies an emergency to the management apparatus when the second receiver receives the emergency signal, wherein;
the management apparatus does not output the audio alert by the second speaker located in the second room when the second emergency outputter notifies the emergency to the management apparatus.

18. The system for outputting an alert of claim 17 , wherein:
the management apparatus outputs the audio alert by the first speaker located in the first room when the second emergency outputter notifies the emergency to the management apparatus.

19. The system for outputting an alert of claim 17 , wherein:
the management apparatus outputs the audio alert by the third speaker located in a third room distinct from the first room and the second room when the second emergency outputter notifies the emergency to the management apparatus.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kawasaki Yuji
• Kitago Ryosuke
• Fukutsuka Hirotaka
• Yamahai Keiji

Classifications

• H04R1/04

  Structural association of microphone with electric circuitry therefor (in electric hearing aids H04R25/00) · CPC title

• G08B13/196 Primary

  using television cameras · CPC title

• H04N7/183

  for receiving images from a single remote source · CPC title

• G08B13/19656

  Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet · CPC title

• H04N7/08

  Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band {, e.g. by time division (H04N7/007 takes precedence)} · CPC title