Patents Assigned to Aiphone Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11758054
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AiPhone Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Kimiaki Fujishima, Ryoji Uno
  • Publication number: 20220385766
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a communication management device that controls communication between the collective entrance machine and the mobile phone. The communication management device relays the communication to the mobile phone registered as a calling destination of the collective entrance machine to be linked to the dwelling room master device using a predetermined application based on a VOIP. When a predetermined registration operation to allow communication with the communication management device based on the VOIP is performed to link the mobile phone to the dwelling room master device, information list on mobile phones already registered relative to the dwelling room master device as a link target is transmitted from the communication management device having accepted the registration in addition to an application for a download, and the mobile phone that has downloaded the application displays the information list on a display section of the mobile phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HARIMA, Hiroki KOTO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
  • Patent number: 11515034
    Abstract: A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11510256
    Abstract: Provided is a setting method of a Wi-Fi doorbell (2), in which a Wi-Fi doorbell (2) comprising a camera capable of reading a two-dimensional code and a mobile communication terminal (4) comprising a display unit (6) capable of displaying the two-dimensional code are used. The setting method comprises steps of causing the display unit (6) to display a two-dimensional code in which password information for enabling the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to connect to a network (5) via a Wi-Fi router (20) is embedded reading the two-dimensional code by the camera (9) of the Wi-Fi doorbell (2); and setting the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to a state where the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) can perform communication with a remotely disposed server (3) via the Wi-Fi router (20), based on the read two-dimensional code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Tetsuya Sumida
  • Publication number: 20220311869
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a dwelling room master device. Each automatic door requires an unlock operation to pass through for proceeding to each area, and a part of the areas are occupied by facilities other than dwelling units. The collective entrance machine includes a card information input section, and the automatic doors each include an unlock operation section for unlocking using the card medium. The collective entrance machine further includes a card authentication section, an unlocking door storage section, and a card information storage section. The card authentication section permits the unlocking by the card medium when the information input to the card information input section matches the information registered in the card information storage section. The permitted card medium enables unlocking the automatic door stored in the unlocking door storage section in association with the information of the card medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220294909
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The collective entrance machine is for calling a visit destination by a visitor. The dwelling room master device is for responding to the call by a dweller. The management master device is for speaking with the dweller by a manager. The management master device includes a speech permissibility storage section and a speech control section. The speech permissibility storage section registers a permissibility of calling and speaking to the dwelling room master device for each dwelling unit. The speech control section controls the calling and speaking. The speech control section does not perform the calling control when a calling operation by the management master device is performed towards the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit registered as “unpermitted” in the speech permissibility storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Ryoji UNO, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220292903
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and a plurality of dwelling room master devices. The collective entrance machine is for a visitor to call and speak to a dweller. The plurality of dwelling room master devices are for the dweller to respond to the call from the collective entrance machine. The dwelling room master devices each include an unlock button to unlock an entrance door through which the visitor enters the dwelling area from an entrance. Some of the dwelling room master devices have an automatic unlock mode that unlocks the entrance door without waiting for an operation of the unlock button when a call signal is transmitted from the collective entrance machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Ryoji Uno, Kimiaki Fujishima
  • Publication number: 20220286563
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system include a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, a management master device, and a sensor. When the sensor detects the occurrence of the abnormality, an abnormality occurrence signal is transmitted from the dwelling room master device to the management master device, and the dwelling room master device and the management master device emit emergency alarms. The management master device includes a display section and a display control section. The display control section displays an alarm stop button to stop an emission operation on the display section when the abnormality occurrence signal is received and the emission is started. When the alarm stop button is operated, the display control section subsequently displays an emission source call button to call the dwelling room master device as a transmission source of the abnormality occurrence signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
  • Publication number: 20220286559
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The management master device is installed in a manager room to speak with the visitor or the dweller. The multiple dwelling house interphone system has a reception mode in which a call to any dwelling unit from the collective entrance machine is uniformly transmitted to the management master device. The management master device includes a forwarding button and a forwarding control section. The forwarding button re-forwards a call in the reception mode to an original calling destination. The forwarding control section re-forwards the call to the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit as the original calling destination when the forwarding button is operated when a speech path is formed with the collective entrance machine in response to the call forwarded in the reception mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
  • Publication number: 20220286562
    Abstract: A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine and dwelling room master devices. When a calling operation section is operated and a dwelling unit number of a calling destination is input, a master device speech control section of the dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit including a plurality of dwelling room master devices performs a calling control of transmitting a call signal to the dwelling room master device of the calling destination having its master device ID, and subsequently forming a speech path when a response operation of the dwelling room master device of the calling destination is performed. The calling and speaking to the other dwelling unit are allowed even in a state where another dwelling room master device of the dwelling unit itself has formed a speech path with the dwelling room master device of the other dwelling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
  • Publication number: 20220286595
    Abstract: An interphone system includes a slave device and a master device. The slave device includes a camera to obtain an image of a visitor. The slave device is for calling a dweller by a visitor. The master device includes a monitor to display a video image obtained by the camera. The master device is for responding by the dweller. The master device includes a video storage section, a mute setting button, and an operation control section. The video storage section records the video image. The mute setting button is for setting a silent mode in which a call sound is not emitted. The operation control section controls a silent mode operation, so as not to emit a call sound in response to a call from the slave device and to activate the camera to store the video image in the video storage section when the silent mode is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta SHIMOMURA, Masashi HATTORI, Kimiaki FUJISHIMA, Ryoji UNO
  • Patent number: 11100775
    Abstract: A doorbell system (1) includes a plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) each of which is attached to each residence and includes an operation unit (22) and a camera (26), and a control unit (4) capable of performing communication with the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n). The control unit (4) is configured to acquire position information of each of the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) and an image captured by the camera (26), to generate target information about a target, based on the position information and the image, and to transmit the target information to an external device (3-1 to 30n) associated with a specific user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kazuma Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10944940
    Abstract: An intercom system for collective housing comprises a main entrance station with a camera, a residential entrance substation with a camera and a residential master station for each residence in the housing, a storage unit that stores videos (V1) of visitors shot by the camera of the main entrance station by associating the videos with residence IDs of the respective residences to visit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a check unit that checks the videos (V1) against a video (V2) shot by the camera of a residential entrance substation. If the check by the check unit indicates a match, the control unit compares the residence ID associated with the match stored in the storage unit with that of the residence in which a call button of the residential entrance substation has been operated. The operation of the call button is invalidated if the IDs are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Tanaka, Yuta Shimomura, Masashi Hattori, Shion Kanai
  • Patent number: 10841430
    Abstract: An intercom system for use in a housing complex constituted by dwelling buildings is provided in which each of the dwelling buildings is provided with a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device with which a calling operation may be performed for calling the dwelling parent devices, and a building control unit configured to communicatively interconnect the dwelling parent device in each dwelling of the host building and the collective foyer device via an intercom line, the collective foyer device includes a storage unit in which terminal information of the collective foyer device is stored, the collective foyer device or the building control unit is capable of performing communication with an external device connected to an external network, and data on the external network is transferred to the collective foyer device or the building control unit by using the external device as a communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Seiya Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20200342983
    Abstract: A nurse call system includes a nurse call slave device, a nurse call master device, a plate slave device, a bedside monitor, a corridor light, a control unit, and nurse mobile phones. The nurse call slave device is provided for each bed in a hospital room for allowing a hospitalized patient to call a nurse. The nurse call master device is provided at a nurse station for answering a call from the nurse call slave device. The plate slave device, the corridor light, or the control unit has an automatic answering unit for automatically answering a call from the nurse call slave device, and causes the automatic answering unit to automatically answer at least a part of calls from the nurse call slave device without calling the nurse call master device and the nurse mobile phones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10757266
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to communicate with room parent devices installed in respective rooms is equipped with an input unit enabling input of a dweller name as a call manipulation for calling a room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table in which a room number, a dweller name, and room parent device identification information assigned to each of the room parent devices are correlated; and a control unit determining a call target room parent device based on an input content of the call manipulation and the call table and performing call control for calling the determined room parent device. In adding a new dweller name for an existing room number to the call table stored in the storage unit, the control unit automatically registers, as room parent device identification information of the new dweller name, the room parent device identification information assigned to the room number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Kenji Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20200258619
    Abstract: A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Aiphone Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10721361
    Abstract: The present invention provides a distributed interphone system capable of simplifying registration of settings of individual devices, for example, when new ones are installed. An interphone system includes apartment parent devices having setting files containing control contents for control of the apartment parent devices, registered therein, terminal devices, and building control units. A setting apparatus includes accessing units for accessing at least one registered setting file and at least one unregistered setting file of the devices, a display unit for displaying the control contents of the plurality of accessed device setting files, and a control unit configured to be able to copy the control contents of the registered setting file displayed on the display unit into the unregistered setting file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Yuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10699807
    Abstract: A nurse call system according to the present invention includes a nurse call master unit (3) which includes a first display part (31); a patient information memory unit (52a) which stores patient information containing at least names of patients and person-in-charge information representing nurses each in charge of one or more of the patients; a working information memory unit (38a) which stores working information of the nurses for each date and each working time zone; and a display control unit (36) which can display a plurality of the patients and the individual nurses in charge of the plurality of patients in a next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously on the first display part (31), in a manner of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, based on the patient and working information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazumi Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10659617
    Abstract: In an intercom system to be used in an apartment complex configured by residential buildings and a centralized building that can communicate with the residential buildings, the residential buildings includes: residential room master devices disposed in residential rooms, collective entrance devices which can communicate with the residential room master devices; and a building controller. The building controller has: a building controller ID that, when the centralized building is called by one of the residential room master devices via the building controller, is used in recognition in which the centralized building recognizes the building controller; and a collective entrance device ID that, when the centralized building is called by one of the residential room master devices via the building controller, is used in recognition in which the one residential room master device recognizes the building controller as a virtual collective entrance device that is different from the collective entrance devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yasukawa, Syu Kumagai