iSeePet: A System for Communicating with Your Pet.

(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))

Perhaps you will be getting home late due to an emergency appointment. Not having prepared food for your pet, it must be starving. Staying at home alone, how on earth will your pet pass the time? All pet owners have envisioned this situation at least once. iSeePet has solved this dilemma. It is a food dispenser that utilizes IT to allow you to feed a determined amount of food for your pet, call your pet with a melody and watch your pet through a built-in network camera - from anywhere, whenever you like.

A heavy duty cable is used to connect the iSeePet to the server, making it safe even in the unlikely event of your pet biting it. The food tray is detachable so that it can be washed. The camera, built into the center of the unit, employs a fish-eye lens with a viewing angle of 130 degrees, wide enough to view nearly the whole of an average sized Japanese room (about 10 to 12 jo or 18m2 - 21m2). Just as you would expect from AOS Technologies, an IT company that has provided major manufacturers with technology to capture images, compress them, and send them to a network using a single system-on-a-chip, the images (real time video on a PC, and still images on a mobile phone) ...