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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2003
Tomoyuki Terada, Toyonaka, JP;
Masaru Sawada, Suita, JP;
Naotaka Kishida, Sakai, JP;
Ayumi Itoh, Ikoma-gun, JP;
Tomoyuki Terada, Toyonaka, JP;
Masaru Sawada, Suita, JP;
Naotaka Kishida, Sakai, JP;
Ayumi Itoh, Ikoma-gun, JP;
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A monitor camera is provided with a control device which carries out a predetermined process in response to an input of a trigger signal. The control device has an arrangement in that continuous images are successively inputted from a camera unit thereto and in that a detection of a moving object is carried out by detecting a change in images in a moving-object detector. When no change in images is detected by the moving-object detector within a predetermined time after the input of a trigger signal from a detection sensor to a trigger signal input unit, the control device determines the trigger signal inputted to the trigger signal input unit as valid. Then, only when the valid trigger signal has been detected, an abnormality process is carried out. Consequently, it is possible to prevent the abnormality process from being performed upon erroneous detection of a normal state as an abnormal state.