WO2000074017A1 - Procede et dispositif electronique de teleconnexion vocale specialisee par ondes electromagnetiques entre un utilisateur et des personnes, des animaux ou des objets en mouvement - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif electronique de teleconnexion vocale specialisee par ondes electromagnetiques entre un utilisateur et des personnes, des animaux ou des objets en mouvement Download PDF

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WO2000074017A1
WO2000074017A1 PCT/IT1999/000280 IT9900280W WO0074017A1 WO 2000074017 A1 WO2000074017 A1 WO 2000074017A1 IT 9900280 W IT9900280 W IT 9900280W WO 0074017 A1 WO0074017 A1 WO 0074017A1
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Girolamo Buonavoglia
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Buonavoglia, Fiorina, Rita
Buonavoglia, Nicolina
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0205—Specific application combined with child monitoring using a transmitter-receiver system
    • G08B21/0213—System disabling if a separation threshold is exceeded
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0227—System arrangements with a plurality of child units
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/023—Power management, e.g. system sleep and wake up provisions
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0294—Display details on parent unit

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  • PROCESS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DEDICATED VOICE TELECONNECTION BY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BETWEEN THE USER AND MOVING PERSONS , ANIMALS , OR OBJECTS
  • the inventioin concerns electronic alarm and safety devices for
  • Purpose of the present invention is to provide a compact and
  • Subject of the invention is a process and a miniaturized pocket-size device, with independent electric feed for teleconnection by electromagnetic waves between a receiver device for the user and one or more transmitters for the persons, animals or object, or entities generally, in that user's keeping..
  • an electronic circuit emits an acoustic warning to the receiver enabling the user to take action to protect the entity to which the transmitter has been connected and that has emitted the warning.
  • the electronic circuit is "voice dedicated" so that the acoustic warning is generated by calling out a name that identifies the protected entity.
  • Receiver and transmitter battery consumption is reduced by receiver-transmitter connection by means of codified discontinuous transmission.
  • special devices and circuits automatically activate the separated receiver and transmitter, deactivate the transmitter and, on reactivation of all transmitters, deactivate the receiver.
  • the devices for automatic activation and de-activation are micro- switches physically switched on by activation or de-activation of the transmitters in relation to the receiver.
  • the microswitches are preferably magnetic.
  • the transmitters comprise a circuit that sets off a warning signal in the receiver if any vocal emission is given, such as a child crying or a person voicing a complaint.
  • Another circuit compares the distance, from one moment to the next, between transmitters and the receiver, with an electronic threshold of value which the user modifies by a regulating device. When this threshold is exceeded, one or more alarm or operative devices immediately come into action.
  • a manual two-position selector on the receiver causes the alarm device to take effect due to variations in distance, whether increased or reduced, these being useful when the protected entity goes beyond the safety distance, or to assist in finding a lost entity, especially an object, such as spectacles, an umbrella, a wallet, mobile phone and the like.
  • a special means of control on the receiver can activate operative functions useful, for example, when the entity in possession of a transmitter goes away from a place where the receiver is installed, functions such as switching on a car theft alarm, or one for some premises, closing a gate and a door, turning off lights or a heating system, or for the reverse operations when the user returns to the same place.
  • the invention offers evident advantages. Being so highly versatile it can serve a wide variety of purposes. The user with the receiver placed in an inside pocket, connected in some manner or in any case kept close, can immediately know if any person or any object to whom, or to which, a transmitter has been associated has moved, or been moved, from the distance set on the receiver.
  • the user can at once know if a thief has taken his wallet in some crowded place, if he has forgotten to pick up his umbrella or to keep watch over some piece of baggage.
  • a person puts his umbrella, fitted with a transmitter according to this invention, in an umbrella stand. When ready to leave he forgets the umbrella. Having walked some distance, longer or shorter according to how the device has been set, the receiver in his pocket emits a warning sound.
  • a parent does not want his child, playing outdoors, to get more than say 50 yards away so he attaches a transmitter to the child's clothing and sets this distance by turning the knob on the potentiometer in the device. If the child goes beyond this distance, the parent is warned by an acoustic signal.
  • the thief opens the door this brings the transmitter closer to the receiver placed, for example, on the bedside table, from where it sets off an alarm.
  • a shortsighted person does not remember where he has put down his spectacles or the television remote control device to which transmitters, as here invented, have been applied, or else he wants to find where his cat, that is wearing one of these transmitters, has hidden himself. He therefore sets a low value (e.g. 50-100 cm) on the receiver and goes round the house until a warning sound is given telling him that his spectacles, or whatever else may be lost, are nearby.
  • a low value e.g. 50-100 cm
  • helpers receive decisive assistance by using the devices here described.
  • Alarm signals can also be automatically activated in motor vehicles, at places of work or in the home, for closing gates and doors, for turning off lights or heating systems, as well as for other useful functions when a user leaves such places to go somewhere else. Even without any specific action on the part of the user, these functions ensure protection in cases of forgetfulness or incapacity. When the user returns to his car or to the place previously left, alarms can be automatically de-activated and gates and doors be opened.
  • FIG 2 Perspective of a receiver with space for one transmitter.
  • Figure 3 Another version of the receiver and transmitter with automatic activation, perspective.
  • Figure 4 Electronic diagram of the receiver.
  • Figure 5 Electronic diagram of a transmitter.
  • the radiofrequency receiver 10 shaped like a small parallelepiped box, is a compartment 11 , open at the top, to take three flat box-shaped radiofrequency transmitters 40-42.
  • One transmitter 40 is shown as having been taken from the compartment 11 while the transmitter 40 is being taken out.
  • a battery 15 for independent electric feed the receiver also comprising a microswitch 13 for connection to said feed and for activating it, an antenna 16, a display 17, a potentiometer 19 with rotating shaft and graded scale 20, a two-position sliding selector 21 , a press switch 22, a set of LEDs 23-25 that, by lighting up, show activation of the various transmitters 40-42, and a loudspeaker 26.
  • the receiver's electronic circuits comprise a high- frequency and radiofrequency amplifier and stage separator circuit 30, a decoding circuit 31 for personalizing the transmitted signal, a comparator circuit 32, threshold indicator for distance and logic stage driver, a transmitted signal timer circuit 33, a buzzer amplifier circuit 34, a decoding circuit 35 and indicator of the emitting transmitters, a display 17.
  • the transmitter 40 comprises a battery 43 for electric feed, an antenna 45, a microswitch 46 for connection to electric feed and for activating it
  • the transmitter's electronic circuits ( Figure 5) comprise a transmitted signal timer circuit 50, a decoding circuit 51 for personalizing the transmitted signal, a radiofrequency stage amplifier circuit 52. If out of use the transmitters 40-42 remain inside the compartment 11 in the receiver 10.
  • the transmitters 40- 42 When the user needs the device, he takes out the transmitters 40- 42 and attaches one or all respectively to the entities to be super- vised. For example, he uses some adeeuate means for attaching a transmitter to a child or to an animal or even to some object to be protected against loss such as a travelling bag, an umbrella, a mobile phone or a wallet. Different codes are put into the transmitters. The receiver is tuned to the same frequency as that of the transmitters and is programmed to recognise their codes only. After activating the two components, transmitters and receiver, by means of the microswitches, respectively 13 and 46, radiofrequency signals are broadcast with the codes put into them. The transmitters broadcast by means of codified discontinuous transmission, thus considerably reducing battery consumption.
  • the signals broadcast are continually compared in the receiver through the comparator circuit 32 comprising an electronic threshold that the user sets with the potentiometer 19. This threshold corresponds to a certain distance between the transmitter and the receiver.
  • the alarm signal is given in the receiver due to the difference in distance between transmitter and receiver, which may be increased or lessened according to one of the two positions assumed by the slider selector 21.
  • the first case is useful for immediately knowing when a person, animal or object moves or is taken away beyond the pre-set safety distance, while utility in the second case is seen when looking for an object put down absentmindedly and forgotten, such as a person's spectacles, umbrella, wallet, mobile phone, and so on.
  • a warning is given both visually and acoustically upon which the distinctive name for the object is called out and broadcast. In this way the user having with him the receiver can know, on receiving the alarm, which protected entity, person, animal or object is beyond the safety distance, and can take the necessary steps for retrieval of the entity concerned.
  • High frequency operation and possibility of mounting SMD circuits mean that both transmitters and the receiver can be miniaturized greatly reducing bulk and making it possible to fit the transmitters, at the time of manufacture, into useful objects for keeping a check on the entities to be supervised.
  • the receiver 60 substantially presents the same characteristics as the receiver 10 but has one compartment 61 only for housing one transmitter 40.
  • Figure 3 illustrates another version of the device comprising a receiver 70 and transmitters 80-82 substantially similar to devices
  • both the receiver and the transmitters are activated or de-activated automatically by physi- cally switching the transmitters inside the receiver on or off.
  • the receiver presents internal microswitches 72-74 at the position of the transmitter housing while, in the same positiion, the transmitters each present a microswitch 75.
  • Takng a transmitter out of the receiver causes closure of the switch on the transmitter extracted, then activated and, simultaneously, closure of a switch on the receiver, then activated.
  • the activating and de-activating switches can be magnetic.
  • composition of a receiver made to take a single transmitter is obviously possible.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif électronique (70, 80) miniaturisé et de format réduit avec une alimentation électrique indépendante (15), ce dispositif permettant d'établir une téléconnexion par l'intermédiaire des ondes électromagnétiques échangées le dispositif récepteur (70) d'un utilisateur et un ou plusieurs émetteurs (80-82) correspondant à des individus, des animaux, ou des objets, et plus généralement à des entités sous la responsabilité dudit utilisateur. Le dispositif susmentionné est également muni d'un circuit électronique vocal spécialisé qui dès que la distance entre l'un des émetteurs (80) et le récepteur (70) atteint une valeur définie, produit un avertissement sonore dans ledit récepteur (70), sous la forme d'un nom ou d'un mot permettant d'identifier l'entité protégée.
PCT/IT1999/000280 1999-05-27 1999-09-03 Procede et dispositif electronique de teleconnexion vocale specialisee par ondes electromagnetiques entre un utilisateur et des personnes, des animaux ou des objets en mouvement WO2000074017A1 (fr)

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