Patent ID: 9692870
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G08B,H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A monitoring camera system comprising: a monitoring camera; and a master device of a fixed telephone network wherein the master device, in operation, performs wireless communication according to a first wireless protocol with one or more slave handsets and with the monitoring camera and performs wireless communication according to a second wireless protocol via a wireless router with a smartphone, wherein the master device includes N number of slave ports at which N slave handsets are registrable, respectively, where N is an integer 1 or greater, wherein, M number of smartphones are registerable with the master device as monitoring system peripherals of the monitoring camera system, respectively, configured to display image data captured by the monitoring camera, where M is an integer greater than N, wherein, the master device is configured to register the smartphone, when a vacant slave port exists at the master device, both as a slave handset of the fixed telephone network and as a monitoring system peripheral and to notify the smartphone that the smartphone is registered as a slave handset, and when a vacant slave port does not exist at the master device, as a monitoring system peripheral incapable of functioning as a slave handset and to notify the smartphone that the smartphone is not registered as a slave handset, wherein, the registered smartphone is configured to transmit, in response to receiving a user operation indicative of a request for image data from the monitoring camera, information regarding the user operation via the wireless router to the master device, and wherein, the master device is configured to transmit, according to the received information regarding the user operation, the requested image data from the monitoring camera via the wireless router to the registered smartphone.