Searching shared video footage from audio/video recording and communication devices

• US 10,685,060 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2019
• Issued: 06/16/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Duda, Amanda M., Modestine, John, Siminoff, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Adams, Eileen M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tekle, Daniel T
• Application Number:
  US16/595,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20200042555A1
• Time in Patent Office: 253 Days
• Field of Search: 386241
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/155 involving storage of or access to video conference sessions tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for searching shared video footage from a plurality of neighborhoods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, a method for searching video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods may include receiving, from a first client device, a share signal including first image data captured by a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; associating the first image data with at least one searchable identifier; receiving, from a second client device, at least one search input; matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier; and transmitting, to the second client device, the first image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory machine readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause at least one server to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from an audio/video recording and communication device (A/V device), image data generated by a camera of the A/V device;

receiving, from a first client device associated with the A/V device, a command to share the image data with a network of users;

associating the image data generated by the camera of the A/V device with at least one searchable identifier;

receiving, from a second client device, at least one search input;

matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier associated with the image data; and

transmitting, to the second client device, the image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

2. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the network of users is associated with a plurality of geographic areas.

3. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 2, wherein at least a geographic area of the plurality of geographic areas includes a subset of users of the network of users.

4. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 2, wherein the A/V device is located in a first geographic area of the plurality of geographic areas, and wherein the second client device is associated with a second geographic area of the plurality of geographic areas.

5. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 2, wherein at least one of the geographic areas comprises a neighborhood.

6. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is live video footage or pre-recorded video footage.

7. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a descriptive tag word.

8. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 7, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising receiving, from the first client device, the descriptive tag word.

9. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 7, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising generating the descriptive tag word.

10. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a descriptive tag phrase.

11. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 10, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising receiving, from the first client device, the descriptive tag phrase.

12. The non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 10, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising generating the descriptive tag phrase.

13. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising receiving, from the first client device, text data representing the at least one searchable identifier, the text data describing a video represented by the image data.

14. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a labeling of a criminal act.

15. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a geographical location associated with the A/V device.

16. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the at least one searchable identifier is a street name, a town name, or a city name.

17. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising generating the at least one searchable identifier by performing a computer vision process on the image data.

18. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising:

receiving, from an additional A/V device, additional image data generated by a camera of the additional A/V device;

associating the additional image data generated by the camera of the additional A/V device with the at least one searchable identifier;

matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier associated with the additional image data; and

transmitting, to the second client device, the additional image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.

19. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 1, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising grouping the image data into at least one category using the at least one searchable identifier.

20. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 19, storing further instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the at least one server to perform further operations comprising:

receiving, from the second client device, at least one category input; and

matching the at least one category input with the at least one category,

wherein transmitting the image data comprises transmitting, to the second client device, the image data grouped into the at least one category matched with the at least one category input.