Patent Application
20130201633
The present invention generally relates to a surveillance device, and more particularly to an improved structure of surveillance device for criminal deterrence, information transmission, and position identification.
Public security issue becomes more and more serious for the modem society so that electronic surveillance devices are commonly installed in most of the public places, resident buildings, or even private houses for personnel control in order to prevent unauthorized access that might lead to criminal activities, such as theft, damage, and injury. The use of surveillance devices helps reducing expense of man power and may also makes a record of the process of an event when an accident occurs.
Most of the surveillance devices available in the market are only of the function of recording and contain no means for deterring thefts or criminals.
Further, it is usually impossible to identify from the outside appearance of a surveillance device if the surveillance device is in normal operation and it is also hard to identify, among a number of surveillance devices, which one of the surveillance devices is out of order. It is often the case that a specific surveillance device is found to be out of order when an attempt is made to retrieve image data from the surveillance device subsequently to the occurrence of an event, so that it is impossible to retrieve the desired image data.
Thus, it is desired to provide a technical solution that overcomes the above discussed problems.
In view of the above, the present invention aims to provide an improvement of surveillance device that shows the functionalities of criminal deterrence and information transmission.
The primary objective of the present invention is that with an arrangement of light-emitting diodes and display modules, an improved structure of surveillance device that shows the functionalities of illuminating and eye-catching, criminal deterrence, advertisement effect, and information transmission is provided.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention provides a surveillance device, which comprises a device body, at least one display module mounted to at least one side surface of the device body, and at least one light-emitting diode mounted to at least one side of the device body. The display module can be a liquid crystal display (LCD) or an LED display screen. The device body comprises a circuit board in information connection with the display module. The device body is electrically connected to a power supply module.
With the above arrangement, the device body receives electrical power supplied from the power supply module and the operation of the light-emitting diode and the display module clearly identify the location where the device body is mounted and helps identifying if the device body is in normal operation. Further, the practical advantages of notifying an operator of the status and deterring criminals, providing an effect of advertisement, and transmitting information are realized.
The foregoing objectives and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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However, it is noted that the above description shows only some preferred embodiments of the present invention. The scope of protection that the application is seeking for is not limited to such a description and it is intended to have all simple modifications and equivalent variations of what described and illustrated in the specification and drawings covered in the scope of protection of the present invention.
Referring to all the drawings, the present invention, when put into use, shows the following advantages as compared to the prior art:
The arrangement of display modules 10 and light-emitting diodes 13 on the device body 1 may effect the practical advantages of illuminating and eye-catching status notification, information transmission, facilitating maintenance, and advertisement effect.
It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
