Entertainment device safety system and related methods of use

• US 10,303,935 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2017
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Carey
• Original Assignee: James Carey
• Inventors: Carey, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Aghevli, Reza
• Application Number:
  US15/714,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20180018511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

An entertainment device safety system includes a video camera configured to capture video of an entertainment device and a user of the entertainment device and a video analytic module to perform real-time video processing of the captured video to generate non-video data from video. A computer receives the video and the non-video data from the video camera analyzes the video or the non-video data to determine a user position in relation to the entertainment device. The user position is compared to a user position rule to determine whether the user position violates the user position rule. A notification is transmitted in response to a determination that the user position violates the user position rule.

Claims

1. A video analytics module comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

store, in the memory, user behavior type data indicating a plurality of types of user behaviors and rule data indicating a plurality of predetermined rules associated with the plurality of types of user behaviors, and entertainment device data indicating a plurality of types of entertainment devices, wherein each of the plurality of predetermined rules is associated with a respective type of entertainment device of the plurality of types of entertainment devices;

receive video camera data from a video camera;

determine a user behavior based on the received video camera data;

compare the determined user behavior to the plurality of types of user behaviors indicated by the stored user behavior type data;

transmit a notification based on a result of the comparison and the stored plurality of rules indicated by the rule data;

analyze the video camera data to determine a type of entertainment device; and

choose a rule from the plurality of predetermined rules associated with the plurality of types of user behaviors based on the determined type of entertainment device,

wherein the determined user behavior is compared to the chosen rule.

2. The video analytics module according to claim 1, wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

store, in the memory, safety position data indicating a safety device position rule;

analyze the video camera data to determine a safety device position of a safety device;

compare the safety device position to the safety device position rule; and

transmit a notification based on a result of the comparison.

3. The video analytics module according to claim 2, wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

associate the safety device position rule with a type of entertainment device;

analyze the video camera data to determine the type of entertainment device; and

choose the safety device position rule based on the type of entertainment device.

4. The video analytics module according to claim 3, wherein the safety device position rule is chosen based on a color of the safety device.

5. The video analytics module according to claim 4, wherein the safety device includes a fluorescent infra-red pigment.

6. The video analytics module according to claim 5, wherein the video camera is configured to capture infra-red images of the safety device.

7. The video analytics module according to claim 3, wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cease operation of the entertainment device if it is determined that the safety device position violates the safety device position rule.

8. The video analytics module according to claim 3, wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to activate a visual indicator if it is determined that the safety device position violates the safety device position rule.

9. The video analytics module according to claim 1, wherein the user behavior rule includes at least one of an aspect ratio, an absolute height, absolute width, or a weighted centroid.

10. The video analytics module according to claim 1, wherein the memory further stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive position data indicating a position of the entertainment device.

11. The video analytics module according to claim 1, wherein the received video camera data includes video data and non-video data.

12. An entertainment device safety method, comprising:

storing user behavior type data indicating a plurality of types of user behaviors and rule data indicating a plurality of predetermined rules associated with the plurality of types of user behaviors, and entertainment device data indicating a plurality of types of entertainment devices, wherein each of the plurality of predetermined rules is associated with a respective type of entertainment device of the plurality of types of entertainment devices;

receiving video camera data from a video camera;

determining a user behavior based on the received video camera data;

comparing the determined user behavior to the plurality of types of user behaviors indicated by the stored user behavior type data;

transmitting a notification based on a result of the comparison and the stored plurality of rules indicated by the rule data;

analyzing the video camera data to determine a type of entertainment device; and

choosing a rule from the plurality of predetermined rules associated with the plurality of types of user behaviors based on the determined type of entertainment device,

wherein the determined user behavior is compared to the chosen rule.

13. The entertainment device safety method according to claim 12, further comprising:

storing safety position data indicating a safety device position rule;

analyzing the video camera data to determine a safety device position of a safety device;

comparing the safety device position to the safety device position rule; and

transmitting a notification based on a result of the comparison.

14. The entertainment device safety method according to claim 13, further comprising:

associating the safety device position rule with a type of entertainment device;

analyzing the video camera data to determine the type of entertainment device; and

choosing the safety device position rule based on the type of entertainment device.

15. The entertainment device safety method according to claim 14, wherein the safety device position rule is chosen based on a color of the safety device.

16. The entertainment device safety method according to claim 14, further comprising causing the processor to cease operation of the entertainment device if it is determined that the safety device position violates the safety device position rule.