Patent ID: 9705696
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G08B,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A communication system comprising: a monitoring camera that includes a microphone, a speaker, an imager, a first memory configured to store one or more sound sources playable via the speaker, and a communicator; and a master device that includes a second memory configured to store one or more sound sources and that, in operation, performs wireless communication with the monitoring camera according to a communications protocol; wherein the master device, in operation, transmits a sound source list to a smartphone, and receives from the smartphone information regarding a sound source selected from the sound source list at the smartphone, wherein the smartphone is communicably connected to the master device and is communicably connected to a mobile phone network to communicate with other mobile telephones; the master device determines a memory location in which the selected source is stored, the memory location being one of the first memory of the monitoring camera and the second memory of the master device, and, when the selected sound source is stored in the second memory of the master device, transmits the selected sound source to the monitoring camera and instructs the monitoring camera to output the selected sound source via the speaker of the monitoring camera, and, when the selected sound source is stored in the first memory of the monitoring camera, instructs the monitoring camera to output the selected sound source stored in the monitoring camera via the speaker of the monitoring camera; and the master device, when the selected sound source is outputted via the speaker of the monitoring camera, transmits a first icon indicative of the selected sound source being played to the smartphone for display.