METHOD TO INVOKE BACKUP INPUT OPERATION
An apparatus including a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a processor that detects failure of the touch screen interface based upon a user-modulated parameter of the touch-screen and a processor that activates a back-up user interface based upon the detected failure.
1 . An apparatus comprising:
a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;
a processor that detects failure of the touch screen interface based upon a user-modulated parameter of the touch-screen; and
a processor that activates a back-up user interface based upon the detected failure.
2 . The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice interface.
3 . The apparatus as in claim 2 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users.
4 . The apparatus as in claim 3 further comprising a processor that receives a sequence of digits and disarms the security system in response thereto.
5 . The apparatus as in claim 4 further comprising a processor that compares the received sequence of digits with a reference sequence of digits saved in memory.
6 . The apparatus as in claim 5 further comprising a processor that verbally annunciates an indicator of status.
7 . The apparatus as in claim 6 wherein the verbal annunciation further comprises one or more spoken words.
8 . An apparatus comprising:
a touch-screen interface of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;
a processor that measures a quiescent parameter of the touch screen thereby detecting failure of the touch-screen; and
a processor that activates a back-up user interface of a human user based upon the detected failure.
9 . The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the measured quiescent parameter further comprises resistance.
10 . The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice-based interface.
11 . The apparatus as in claim 10 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users.
12 . The apparatus as in claim 11 further comprising a processor that receives a sequence of spoken digits and disarms the security system in response thereto.
13 . The apparatus as in claim 12 further comprising a processor that compares the received sequence of spoken digits with a reference sequence of digits saved in memory.
14 . The apparatus as in claim 13 further comprising a processor that verbally annunciates an indicator of status through a speaker mounted to a control panel of the security system.
15 . The apparatus as in claim 14 wherein the verbal annunciation further comprises one or more spoken words including at least the word disarm.
16 . An apparatus comprising:
a touch-screen control panel of a security system that protects a secured geographic area;
a processor that measures a user activated parameter of the touch screen thereby detecting failure of the touch-screen; and
a back-up user interface of the security system that automatically activated in response to the detected failure.
17 . The apparatus as in claim 16 further comprising a processor that compares the user activated parameter of the touch screen with a reference value.
18 . The apparatus as in claim 17 wherein the user activated parameter further comprises resistance.
19 . The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the back-up user interface further comprises a voice-based interface.
20 . The apparatus as in claim 16 further comprising a voice recognition processor that recognizes spoken words of human users and that provides audible status reports embodied as spoken words.