Dynamic assessment using an audio/video recording and communication device

• US 10,475,311 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2018
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ring Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Siminoff, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/925,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20180268674A1
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 340541, 348152-155
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19608 Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19613 Recognition of a predetermined image pattern or behaviour pattern indicating theft or intrusion
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19632 Camera support structures, e.g. attachment means, poles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 using visible light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones

Abstract

Dynamic identification of threat levels associated with persons using audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for notifying a user of a threat level associated with a person within the field of view of a camera of an A/V recording and communication device is provided, the method comprising receiving, from the camera, identification data for the person; transmitting the received identification data to at least one backend server; receiving, from the backend server, information about a threat level associated with the person; and notifying the user of the threat level.

Claims

1. A method for providing a notification of a threat level associated with a person, the method comprising:

receiving, from a camera, image data representative of one or more images of the person;

transmitting the image data to at least one server;

receiving, from the at least one server, a threat level associated with the person, wherein the threat level associated with the person is a measure of severity of threat posed by the person to other persons in a geographic area where the camera is located; and

providing the notification of the threat level associated with the person.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the notification of the threat level comprises providing one of a plurality of different threat level notification types based on different threat levels.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the notification of the threat level comprises providing a visual notification.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein providing the visual notification comprises selecting a particular color from a set of colors for illuminating a colored light.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each color in the set of colors corresponds to a different threat level.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the notification of the threat level comprises providing an audible notification.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the notification of the threat level comprises providing the notification on a client device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the client device is a smartphone.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a movement of the person; and

capturing video images, by the camera, of the person.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the image data representative of the one or more images of the person is representative of the video images of the person.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising notifying other residents of a same neighborhood, in which the camera is located, of the threat level.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein notifying the other residents comprises notifying the other residents through streetlights located in the neighborhood.

13. An audio/video recording and communication device (A/V device), comprising:

a camera configured to record video images of an area about the A/V device;

one or more processors;

a communication module configured to transmit the video images to a client device; and

a non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one of the one or more processors provides a notification of a threat level associated with a person within a field of view of the camera, the program comprising sets of instructions for;

receiving, from the camera, at least one video image of the person;

transmitting the at least one video image to at least one backend server;

receiving, from the at least one server, a threat level associated with the person, wherein the threat level associated with the person is a measure of severity of threat posed by the person to other persons in a geographic area where the A/V device is located; and

providing the notification of the threat level associated with the person.

14. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for providing one of a plurality of different threat level notification types based on different threat levels.

15. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for providing a visual notification.

16. The A/V device of claim 15, wherein the A/V device is associated with a structure having at least one colored light, and wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for selecting a particular color from a set of different colors for the colored light.

17. The A/V device of claim 16, wherein each color in the set of colors corresponds to a different threat level.

18. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for providing an audible notification.

19. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for providing the notification on the client device.

20. The A/V device of claim 19, wherein the client device is a smartphone.

21. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the A/V device is a doorbell.

22. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the A/V device is a security camera.

23. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for:

detecting a movement of the person within the field of view of the camera; and

capturing the at least one video image, by the camera, of the person and a set of other objects that are within the field of view of the camera.

24. The A/V device of claim 13, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for notifying other persons living in a same neighborhood, in which the A/V device is located, of the threat level.

25. The A/V device of claim 24, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions the set of instructions for notifying the for notifying the other persons through streetlights located in the neighborhood.