JPH0877479A - Monitor and control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To perform monitoring and control corresponding to decisions on whether or not there is a person in a hall and the qualification of a visitor which are made by using a card by operating a monitor camera installed in a specific area on the basis of control information on a storage medium such as a magnetic card which is read by a reader. CONSTITUTION: The visitor who carries the card operates the card on the reader 30 of a card gate installed at an entrance. The user ID as read data on the card are sent to a controller 40 to decide whether the visitor is allowed to enter rooms on the floor. When the visitor is allowed, the entrance on the floor is unlocked. The controller 40 decides whether or not the entrance of the visitor is allowed, and specifies the floor corresponding to the visitor and specifies a camera 70 when the entrance is allowed. When the floor corresponding to the visitor is a floor B, a camera 2 is specified as the camera 70 and its image is projected on the TV 2 corresponding to the camera 2 at the control center.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention uses a portable storage medium such as a magnetic card, an IC card or an optical card to monitor the occurrence of accidents in buildings, factories, etc., and operates a monitoring camera. The present invention relates to a control system for controlling the. In the management of buildings, etc., in order to prevent accidents and improve security, a surveillance camera is installed in the building and the contents taken by the camera are monitored by the monitor in the surveillance center.

In recent years, the number of cameras to be controlled has increased along with the diversification of the surveillance range and the observing persons such as visitors to the building. At the same time, the cameras are controlled based on specific conditions (qualifications of visitors). Such requests have been made, and it is desired to provide a service that automatically controls monitoring.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in buildings and factories, the contents in a surveillance camera installed in an area to be monitored are monitored by a monitor in a surveillance center. However, if the monitoring target is diversified due to the expansion of the monitoring range and the number of visitors who are the monitoring target, it becomes necessary to perform individual control according to each situation. If the surveillance range is widened, there will be areas where there are no visitors and there is no particular need to photograph. In addition, there may be a case where, among a large number of visitors, those who have particular qualifications need to be particularly monitored. In this case, a method has been adopted in which the surveillance camera is operated manually at the surveillance center by an operator or the like.

[0004]

Therefore, when the surveillance cameras are individually controlled according to the situation due to the diversification of the surveillance targets, the surveillance cameras must be controlled manually, and the load on the operator or the like at the surveillance center is reduced. Becomes larger,
Was causing the problem. Normally, when entering or entering a room, it is determined whether or not a card in which a user ID or the like is registered is used, and entry or room entry is permitted. Therefore, it is possible to control the presence / absence of an attendee and the determination of whether or not the person is a qualified person based on the card control at the time of entering and entering the room.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a control system which enables flexible monitoring and control according to presence / absence of a person in a hall and determination of qualifications of visitors by using a card.

[0006]

To achieve the above object, the surveillance control system of the present invention is a portable storage medium for storing a surveillance camera installed in a predetermined area and information associated with the predetermined surveillance camera. And a camera control device for operating the corresponding surveillance camera based on the information of the portable storage medium read by the reader of the portable storage medium installed at the entrance of the predetermined area. It is a thing.

[0007]

In the surveillance control system of the present invention, the surveillance camera installed in the predetermined area is operated based on the control information in the portable storage medium such as the magnetic card read by the reader. . Therefore, according to the surveillance control system of the present invention, when a qualified person uses a card when entering, in addition to the conventional entrance permission processing by unlocking, an arbitrary range is automatically set as the surveillance range of the camera. It becomes possible to do. In addition to setting the surveillance range of the camera,
It is possible to give an operation instruction to the broadcasting equipment within the monitoring range.

[0008]

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
Is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a detailed configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a card data diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a condition table diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 6 and 7 are flowcharts of one embodiment of the present invention.

The structure of an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, a magnetic card is used as a portable storage medium for recording information for controlling the surveillance camera. However, other storage media that can be carried, such as an IC card or an optical card, may be used. It does not prevent you from being. FIG. 1 shows a case where one floor of a building is divided into several floors, and a card gate is installed at the entrance of each divided floor. The card gate includes a card reader, and locks and unlocks the entrance based on the data in the card operated by the reader. A visitor having a card operates the card with the reader 30 of the card gate installed at the entrance. The user ID, which is the read data in the card, is the control device 4
0 is notified, and it is determined whether entry to the floor is permitted. If allowed, the floor entrance will be unlocked.
The control device 40 determines whether or not the room is permitted, and when the room is permitted, the floor corresponding to the visitor is specified and the camera 70 whose operation is to be controlled is specified. When the floor corresponding to the visitors is the B floor, the camera 70 whose operation is to be controlled is the camera 2, and the captured image is displayed on the TV 2 corresponding to the camera 2 in the control center. If the floor is too large to be photographed by one camera, such as the A floor, the floor is divided into A floor 1 and A floor 2, and if the floor corresponding to the visitors is the A floor 1, the camera is By changing the direction of 1, the necessary area is projected from the entire floor.

Next, the overall flow of the present invention will be described based on the schematic flow chart of FIG. The user is a building,
When entering a meeting room or the like, the card owned by the user is operated by the reader of the card gate installed at the entrance (step 2-1). In the supervisory control system of the present invention, when a certain identifier such as the user ID written on the card is read, it is judged whether or not the object is a room entry permission (step 2-
2) If it is a subject of permission, the process proceeds to the determination process of whether it is a subject to be monitored by the camera (step 2-3). When the user ID is included in the camera monitoring targets, the monitoring location corresponding to the preset user ID, the camera to be monitored, and the like are determined (step 2-4). When the surveillance place, surveillance camera, etc. are determined, the camera is operated, the change of the shooting range is controlled, and the broadcasting equipment within the shooting range is operated (step 2-5).

Next, a case where the monitoring range is set for each user will be described as an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 shows a detailed configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. The card reader 30 reads a user ID, which is an identifier set for each user, from a card possessed by the user.

When the card carried by the user is operated by the card reader 30, the lock control unit 50 determines whether the user ID in the card is the ID of the person who is permitted to enter the room in the usage condition determination processing unit 80. Based on the result of the judgment, unlocking and locking are performed. The control device 40, based on the user ID read from the card reader 30,
The monitoring range of the camera corresponding to the user ID is specified, and the equipment such as the camera and other lighting is controlled. The usage condition determination processing unit 80, the condition table 90, the monitoring determination processing unit 100, and the controller control unit 110. , Lighting control unit 1
It consists of 30.

The display unit 10 inputs and displays various tables in the condition table 90, and data is input by a keyboard or the like. Usage condition storage unit 2
0 defines a procedure for referring to the condition table 90 and stores the condition. The usage condition determination processing unit 80
The condition table 90 is searched according to the conditions stored in the usage condition storage unit 20, and it is determined whether or not it is a room entry permission target. The monitoring determination processing unit 100 is instructed to perform monitoring processing, and the lock control unit 50 is instructed. On the other hand, the instructions are for unlocking and locking.

The monitoring determination processing unit 100 searches various tables of the condition table 90 for the user who is the target of the monitoring process, and instructs the controller control unit 110 based on the information such as the monitoring range and the control device number in the table. To do. The condition table 90 is a table in which various conditions for guiding the monitoring range of the camera corresponding to the user ID set in the card are set, and the user table, the specific person table, the card gate monitoring table, and the camera monitoring table. Composed of. The user table is a table in which user IDs and the like which are the targets of entry permission are set. The specific person table is information for each specific user among users, and the presence / absence of monitoring, the card gate to be monitored, and the like are set. The card gate monitoring table is information for each card gate, and the monitoring range and the like are set. The camera monitoring table is information for each monitoring range, and a specific name corresponding to the monitoring range, various control device numbers such as lighting, a control camera number, and the like are set.

The controller control section 110 transmits a control signal 120 to the corresponding camera controller 60 based on an instruction from the monitoring determination processing section 100. Control signal receiving unit 140 of each camera controller 60
When receiving the signal regarding the control content of the camera from the controller control unit 110, the controller instructs the camera monitoring control unit 150 to control the corresponding camera and controls the monitoring camera 70.

The usage condition judgment processing unit 80 instructs the monitoring judgment processing unit 100 to control the corresponding camera, and also controls the control unit 130 of various broadcasting equipment such as lighting.
Specify the monitoring range. Control unit 130 of various broadcasting facilities
Performs operation of broadcasting equipment such as lighting and environment setting for the monitoring range designated by the usage condition determination processing unit 80.
FIG. 4 shows an example of card data used in one embodiment of the present invention.

A user ID or the like is set in the card as a fixed identifier. FIG. 5 shows an example of the condition table referred to in one embodiment of the present invention. The user table is a user ID that is a target of entry permission at the card gate. When the card is operated by the card reader and the user ID is read, this table is searched and the user is stored in this table. If you have an ID, you are allowed to enter the room. For example, if the user ID read from the card is “123456”, it is in the user table, and thus is a target of entry permission.

The specified person table is a table for setting various kinds of information for each user, and specifies a designated card gate for a user ID registered in the user table who is permitted to enter the room and whether or not to monitor. The flag to be specified is specified. Regarding the presence or absence of monitoring, only the user whose designation flag is set to "1" is to be monitored. For example, user ID
Is "444444", the monitoring flag is set to "0", and therefore the object is not monitored. The designated card gate designates a card gate for which the card read operation is valid. If the card is read by a card other than the designated card gate, the camera monitoring process is not performed. If "000" is set in the designated card gate, all card gates are targeted, and no matter which card gate is operated for card reading, it is targeted for monitoring. For example, if the user ID is “234567”, the card gate “0
Only when the card is read by "01" or "002" is the monitoring target.

The card gate monitoring table defines the monitoring range by a logical number. For example, if the card gate operated by the card is "001", the monitoring range is "A1". The camera monitoring table specifies a group name for the monitoring range derived from the card gate monitoring table, a control device number of various facilities such as lighting, and a control camera number. For example, if the monitoring range is "A1", the group name is "A floor 1", the control device number is "1", and the control camera number is "001".
The control device number is a number that identifies the broadcast facility or the like in the surveillance range, and the control camera number is a number that identifies the surveillance camera. While the monitoring range is a logical value, the control device number and the control camera number are values that physically specify the device. The group name is a specific floor name or the like of the monitoring range, and can be used as a specific name when the monitoring history is taken, for example.

Next, the flow of processing will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. A user who has a card with a user ID registered operates the card in the card reader 30 of the card gate when entering the room (step 6-1). The card data operated by the card reader 30 is notified to the usage condition determination processing unit 80 of the control device 40 and processed. The usage condition determination processing unit 80 refers to each table in the condition table 90 according to the designation of the usage condition storage unit 20 and performs the following processing. First, referring to the user table in the condition table 90 (step 6-2), the user ID in the card data
Is registered in the user table (step 6-3), and if not registered, entry is not permitted. If the user is registered in the user table, the usage condition determination processing unit 80 refers to the specific person table (step 6-4) and determines whether or not it is registered in the specific person table (step 6-5). If it is not registered, it is not a monitoring target, so the subsequent monitoring processing is not performed,
Only the lock control for entering the room is performed (step 6-15). If it is registered in the specific person table, the flag for determining the presence or absence of monitoring and the card gate to be monitored are referenced in the specific person table (step 6-6). It is determined whether the monitoring flag is a monitoring target (step 6-7), and if it is not a monitoring target, the subsequent monitoring process is not performed (step 6).
-15). Further, it is determined whether the card operated card gate is the designated monitoring target card gate (step 6-8). If it is not the monitoring target, the subsequent monitoring processing is not performed (step 6-15). If the card is read at the designated card gate, it will be monitored. The monitoring determination processing unit 100 refers to the card gate monitoring table to specify the monitoring range corresponding to the target card gate number (step 6-9). The monitoring range corresponding to the card gate number is determined from the card gate monitoring table, and the camera monitoring table is referenced to specify the camera to be controlled next (step 6-10). From the camera monitoring table, the control device number and control camera number corresponding to the monitoring range are determined. The controller control unit 110 transmits the control signal 120 to the camera controller 60 according to the confirmed control camera number (step 6-11). When the control signal receiving unit 140 of the camera controller 60 receives the transmitted signal (step 6-12), the camera monitoring control unit 150 instructs the monitoring camera 70 to operate the camera or switch the direction (step 6-12). 13), the monitoring camera 70 performs monitoring control according to the instructed content (step 6-14).

In this embodiment, one floor is divided into a plurality of floors, a card gate is installed at each entrance of the divided floors, and the presence or absence of monitoring is controlled for each card gate. Even if the card gate is installed only at the entrance of one floor including the floor, as long as it controls the surveillance camera based on the information of the portable storage medium, it is within the scope of the present invention. In this case, operate the card only at the entrance of one floor including multiple floors, and use the user ID in the card
According to the above, since the corresponding monitoring camera is controlled, the presence / absence of monitoring for each card gate as in the present embodiment is not controlled.

[0022]

Other Embodiments In the above embodiments, the case where the monitoring range is set for each user has been described. However, even when the monitoring range is set for each company, the monitoring camera is controlled using a card. If so, it is within the scope of the present invention. As another embodiment of the present invention, a case where the monitoring range is set for each company will be described below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, 8 and 9.

8 and 9 are flow charts of another embodiment of the present invention. If there are multiple companies in the building, they will be used as offices for each company on a floor-by-floor basis or on a block-by-floor basis. Therefore,
In some cases, the range of use, that is, the range of monitoring is set for each company to which the user belongs, not for each user.

User ID read from a card as shown in FIG. 4 when setting a monitoring range for each company
A condition table to be searched according to will be described with reference to FIG. The user ID and the code of the company to which the user belongs are set in the user table, which is the target of entry permission at the card gate. When the user ID is read, this table is searched, and if there is a user ID in this table, entry is permitted and the company code to which the user belongs is specified. For example, the company code for the user ID "100001" is "1234".

When setting the monitoring range for each company,
Since the monitoring range is not controlled on an individual basis, the specific person table is not referenced. The card gate monitoring table is associated with the monitoring range corresponding to the card gate number, the company code that uses the floor, which is the monitoring range, and the monitoring flag position. If the company code derived from the user ID corresponds to the card gate number operated by the user, the monitoring range corresponding to the operated card gate number is to be monitored. For example, when a user with the company code “1234” operates a card at the card gate “001”, the user code is a company code corresponding to the card gate, and is therefore monitored, and the monitoring range is “A1”. A user whose company code is “1234” is a card gate “004”
If you operate the card with, it will not be monitored,
The subsequent monitoring process is not performed. Alternatively, it is possible to determine that the user has entered a room other than the floor for which permission is granted and notify the crime prevention facility or the like.

As described above, the company code and the card gate number on which the card is operated specify the monitoring range for each company. Even if the monitoring target is for each company, some users monitor according to the monitoring range. When it is necessary to distinguish between the presence and absence of a card, it can be controlled as follows by the monitoring flag set in the card. The monitoring flag in the card data is set for each card gate number.
ON if the monitoring flag is "00010010 ..."
Only the card gates corresponding to the fourth and seventh flags set in (1) are monitored. The monitoring flag position in the card gate monitoring table is set as a reference position on the above flag, and if the monitoring flag position corresponding to the card gate number "001" is "2", the monitoring flag in the card data is 2 The second is the target flag, and if it is “00010010 ...”, the second data is “0” and therefore is not a monitoring target. Therefore, even if the monitoring range in each company is specified by the company code and the operated card gate number, it is possible to control whether or not each user is to be monitored by specifying the monitoring flag in the card data. .

When the monitoring range is determined, the camera monitoring table is referred to and the numbers of control devices and control cameras are specified for monitoring control, as in the case of setting the monitoring range for each user. As described above, when the monitoring range is set for each company, the case where the table in the condition table 90 referenced by the usage condition determination processing unit 80 and the monitoring determination processing unit 100 sets the monitoring range for each user Because they are different
The setting of the usage condition storage unit 20 may be set to reference to the user table, reference to the card gate monitoring table, or reference to the camera monitoring table.

Next, the flow of processing will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. A user who has a card with a user ID registered operates the card in the card reader 30 of the card gate when entering the room (step 7-1). The card data operated by the card reader 30 is notified to the usage condition determination processing unit 80 of the control device 40. The usage condition determination processing unit 80 refers to each table in the condition table 90 according to the designation of the usage condition storage unit 20 and performs the following processing.
First, referring to the user table in the condition table 90 (step 7-2), it is determined whether or not the user ID in the card data is registered in the user table (step 7-3). Do not allow entry. When the user is registered in the user table, the corresponding company code is searched (step 7-
4). Next, in order to confirm the card gate number of the monitoring place corresponding to the company code, the card gate monitoring table is referred to (step 7-5). Based on the card operated card gate number, from the card gate monitoring table,
The corresponding company code is searched (step 7-6). It is determined whether the retrieved company code matches the company code specified from the user table (step 7-
7). If they match, it becomes a monitoring target, and the corresponding monitoring range is determined. If they do not match, the monitoring process is not performed, and only the entry permission lock control is performed (step 7-1).
5). Then, in order to confirm whether the card gate number operated by the card is a monitoring target, the monitoring flag in the card data is referred to based on the monitoring flag position in the card gate monitoring table (step 7-8). By referring to the monitoring flag in the card data, it is judged whether or not it is a monitoring target (step 7-9). If the flag at the monitoring flag position is "0", it is not monitored (step 7-15). Next, the camera monitoring table is referred to in order to identify the camera to be controlled (step 7-10). From the camera monitoring table, the control device number and control camera number corresponding to the monitoring range are determined. The controller control unit 110 sends the control signal 12 to the camera controller 60 according to the confirmed control camera number.
0 is transmitted (step 7-11). When the control signal receiving unit 140 of the camera controller 60 receives the transmitted signal (step 7-12), the camera monitoring control unit 15
0 instructs the surveillance camera 70 to operate or switch the direction of the camera (step 7-13), and the surveillance camera 70 carries out surveillance control according to the instructed contents (step 7-).
14).

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By using a card that stores the control information of the surveillance camera, it is possible to automatically perform flexible supervisory control according to specific conditions (existence of attendees, qualifications of attendees, etc.). This has the effect of reducing the processing load.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic flowchart of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing card data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a condition table according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a flowchart of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a flowchart of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10: Display unit 20: Usage condition storage unit 30: Card reader 40: Control device 50: Lock control unit 60: Camera controller 70: Surveillance camera 80: Usage condition determination processing unit 90: Condition table 100: Monitoring determination processing unit 110: Controller control unit 120: Control signal 130: Lighting control unit 140: Control signal reception unit 150: Camera monitoring control unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A system for controlling the operation of a surveillance camera, a surveillance camera installed in a prescribed area, a portable storage medium for storing information associated with the prescribed surveillance camera, and an entrance to the prescribed area. A control system comprising a camera control device for operating the corresponding surveillance camera based on the information of the portable storage medium read by the reader installed in.