JP2010177994A - Video intercom device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video intercom device capable of displaying indicators on an LCD (Liquid Crystal Device) to improve operability for video image brightness adjustment and volume control of ringing tone and speech voice. <P>SOLUTION: The video intercom device includes a hallway slave unit with a camera and a living room master unit. The living room master unit includes a monitor, a microphone and a speaker, a pan-tilt button, an adjustment button and a master unit CPU. The monitor outputs a video image photographed by the hallway slave unit with the camera. The microphone and the speaker are used upon ringing and speech communication from the hallway slave unit with the camera. The pan-tilt button is used to move the range of the outputted video image on the monitor vertically and horizontally. The adjustment button is used for brightness adjustment of the video image and volume control of ringing tone and/or speech voice upon ringing and/or speech communication. The master unit CPU displays a vertical indicator and a horizontal indicator respectively for brightness adjustment of the video image displayed on the monitor and volume control of ringing tone and/or speech voice upon ringing and/or speech communication, and executes control for adjustment by the vertical indicator and the horizontal indicator through a pan-tilt button operation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a television door phone device, and more particularly to a television door phone device that improves the operability of adjusting the brightness of a video, the ringing sound, and the volume of a received sound.

The configuration of FIG. 4 is known as a conventional television door phone device.
The room master unit 201 controls the LCD 211 in response to a call from the entrance slave unit, outputs an image captured by the entrance slave unit, and outputs the sound collected by the entrance slave unit from the speaker 213.

At this time, if the image displayed on the LCD 211 is difficult to see due to daytime or weather, the brightness of the image can be adjusted by operating the volume 222 to make it easier to see.
Further, the volume of the received sound volume can be adjusted by the received sound volume volume 223 according to the volume of the received sound volume (received sound volume) of the visitor.
In this way, the resident can make a good call with the microphone 202 and the speaker 213 while confirming the visitor on the LCD 211 (for example, Non-Patent Document 1).

Aiphone 2008-2009 General Catalog P14

However, in the conventional TV door phone device, the brightness volume and the reception volume are often arranged on the side of the main unit for convenience of design and component mounting, and there is a space that can be operated on the right side of the living room main unit. This is a major factor that reduces the degree of freedom in the location of the base unit.
In addition, it is difficult to determine the upper and lower limits that can be adjusted in operation, and it is difficult to understand that the upper and lower limits are already established unless the operation is performed.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides a TV door phone device that displays an indicator on an LCD to improve the operability of adjusting the brightness of a video, the ringing tone, and the volume of a receiving tone. The purpose is to do.

In order to solve the above-described problems, a TV door phone device according to the present invention is connected to an entrance cordless device with a camera for a visitor to call a resident and make a call, and an entrance cordless device with a camera, and responds to the visitor's call. A TV door phone device composed of a main unit for a telephone call, which is composed of a monitor for displaying an image captured by an entrance unit with a camera and an entrance unit with a camera. Microphone and speaker used for calling and calling, pan / tilt buttons for moving the range of video displayed on the monitor up, down, left and right, brightness of the video during calling and / or calling, ringing sound And / or an adjustment button for adjusting the volume of the received sound, and adjusting the brightness of the image displayed on the monitor at the time of calling and / or calling by operating the adjusting button, Vertical indicator for volume adjustment of sound, the horizontal indicator displays respectively, and having a a base unit CPU that controls the adjustment by vertical indicator and the horizontal indicator by operating the pan tilt button.

The television doorphone device according to the present invention is the television door phone device according to claim 1, wherein the master CPU uses an indicator when the zoom CPU has a zoom wide button for zooming or widening an image or another function button such as an electric unlocking button. During the adjustment, control for invalidating the operation of other function buttons is performed.

In the television doorphone device according to the present invention, the main unit CPU displays the same display as the operation direction display displayed on the corresponding pan / tilt button on both ends of the indicator displayed on the monitor. It is characterized by controlling to perform.

The television door phone device according to the present invention is characterized in that, in claim 3, when the indicator displays an adjustment limit, control is performed so as not to perform the same display as the operation direction displayed on the corresponding pan / tilt button. .

The television doorphone device according to the present invention is characterized in that, in any one of claims 1 to 4, the master CPU controls the selection of an adjustment item each time the adjustment button is pressed.

According to the TV door phone apparatus of the first aspect of the present invention, the vertical and horizontal indicators are displayed, and further, the pan / tilt buttons capable of operating the up / down / left / right buttons can be adjusted at the same time. The degree of adjustment can be visually confirmed.

According to the television door phone device of the second aspect, during the adjustment by the indicator, it is judged invalid even if another function button is operated, so that it is possible to prevent an erroneous operation due to a pressing mistake.

According to the television door phone device of claim 3, since it is understood which button should be operated at both ends of the indicator, it is convenient for the user.

According to the television door phone device of the fourth aspect, when the indicator indicates the adjustment limit, the adjustment is not possible any more, so that it is easy for the user to understand by eliminating the button direction display.

According to the television door phone device of the fifth aspect, since the adjustment items can be changed sequentially by operating the adjustment button, the number of parts can be reduced and the adjustment can be performed one by one, which is easy for the user to understand.

DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments to which a television door phone device of the invention is applied will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an external view of a base unit of a television door phone device according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 (a) and 2 (b) are LCD screen examples of the living room parent device, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the living room parent device.

As shown in FIG. 1, the living room master unit 1 includes a monitor (LCD) 11, a microphone 12, a speaker 13, an ease button 14 for performing backlight correction, a zoom wide button 15 for zooming and widening an image, and a pan / tilt button 16 ( 16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) and an adjustment button 17.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, it includes an LCD control unit 18, a microphone amplifier 19, a speaker amplifier 20, a ringing tone generation unit 21, a call IF 22, a video IF 23, a data IF 24, a base unit IF 25, and a base unit CPU 26.

Hereinafter, the operation of the television door phone apparatus configured as described above will be described.
The operations related to normal calling and calling will be omitted, and the brightness adjustment of the video displayed on the monitor and the volume adjustment during calling and calling will be described in detail.
When a visitor performs a calling operation to call a resident from the camera-equipped handset 2, a call signal is input to the parent CPU 26 via the parent IF 25 and the data IF 24 to detect that a call has been made. The master CPU 26 controls the ringing tone generator 21 to report the ringing tone from the speaker 13 via the speaker amplifier 20. At the same time, power is supplied to operate the camera of the entrance slave unit 2 with the camera, so that an image captured by the camera is transferred to the LCD 11 via the master unit IF 25, the image IF 23, and the LCD control unit 18. It is displayed.

At this time, when the adjustment button 17 is pressed in order to make the brightness of the image at the time of calling and / or calling, the volume of the ringing tone and / or the receiving sound appropriate, as shown in FIG. Controls the LCD control unit 18 to display the image brightness adjustment indicator 110 on the LCD 11.

In this state, the indicator 110 displays an icon 110a indicating brightness adjustment. Further, by displaying the direction display 110b of the corresponding pan / tilt button 16 on both ends of the indicator, it is possible to visually confirm which button should be operated.

Therefore, the brightness can be adjusted by operating 16a and 16b of the pan / tilt button 16.
It should be noted that, even if another function button such as the zoom wide button 15 is operated during adjustment, the master CPU 26 determines that this is invalid and does not operate.
Thereby, it becomes possible to prevent an erroneous operation.
In addition, when the indicator 110 displays the adjustment limit, the master CPU 26 performs control so that the direction of the corresponding pan / tilt button is not displayed.
Thereby, since the user can confirm the adjustment limit, it becomes easy to operate.

Next, when the adjustment button 17 is operated again, as shown in FIG. 2B, the indicator 110 is switched to the indicator 111 for adjusting the volume of the ringing tone and / or the reception tone. As a result, the volume can be adjusted in the same manner as the brightness adjustment. Note that the icon 111a and the direction display 111b are displayed as in the brightness adjustment.

Here, the two types of adjustment objects are brightness adjustment and volume adjustment, and icons are used to display adjustment items in the vicinity of the indicator, but they may be displayed in a language, and other adjustment objects may be used during LCD display. It may be an object to be adjusted.
In the above-described embodiment, the operation example associated with the call has been described. However, for example, the LCD brightness adjustment at the time of monitoring or recording / playback can be performed in the same manner.

It is a figure which shows the external appearance of a living room main | base station among the television door phone apparatuses by this invention. It is a figure which shows the LCD screen example of a living room main | base station among the television door phone apparatuses by this invention. It is a figure which shows the block diagram of the television door phone apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows the external appearance of a living room main | base station among the conventional television door phone apparatuses.

1 ... Home unit 11 ... Monitor (LCD)
12 ... Microphone 13 ... Speaker 16 ... Pan / tilt button 26 ... Master CPU
110 ... Indicator 111 ... Indicator 2 ... Entrance unit with camera

Claims (5)

A television set comprising a camera-connected entrance cordless handset for a visitor to call a resident, and a room base phone connected to the camera entrance cordless handset for calling in response to a visitor call. A door phone device,
The living room base unit includes a monitor for displaying an image picked up by the camera door unit, a microphone and a speaker used when calling from the camera door unit and during a call, and the monitor. A pan / tilt button for moving the displayed video range up / down / left / right, and an adjustment button for adjusting the brightness of the video at the time of calling and / or calling, and the volume of the ringing tone and / or the receiving sound; , An indicator for adjusting the brightness of the video displayed on the monitor at the time of calling and / or calling by the operation of the adjustment button, and the volume adjustment of the ringing tone and / or the receiving sound is displayed as a vertical or horizontal indicator, A television door phone device, comprising: a master CPU that controls adjustment by the indicator by operating the pan / tilt button. When the base unit CPU includes other function buttons such as a zoom wide button for zooming or widening the video or an electric lock / unlock button, the operation of the other function buttons is performed during the adjustment by the indicator. The television door phone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein invalidation control is performed. 3. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the master CPU performs control so as to perform the same display as the operation direction displayed on the corresponding pan / tilt button on both ends of the indicator displayed on the monitor. The listed TV door phone. 4. The television door phone according to claim 3, wherein when the indicator displays an adjustment limit, the base unit CPU performs control so as not to perform the same display as the operation direction displayed on the corresponding pan / tilt button. 5. The TV door phone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the base unit CPU controls selection of an adjustment item each time the adjustment button is pressed.

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