INTERFACES FOR SECURITY SYSTEM CONTROL

• US 20140281990A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mivalife Mobile Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Oplink Communications
• Inventors: Gu, Keqin, Qi, Yan, Chen, Tsungyen
• Application Number:
  US13/837,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20140281990A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19693 using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling security systems. One of the methods includes receiving, at a mobile device, an input to present camera video content; presenting, in a user interface, a first array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a first security system location; receiving a user input to present a second array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a second security system location, and wherein the user input comprises a touch input; and presenting, in the user interface, the second array of video content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a mobile device, an input to present camera video content;

presenting, in a user interface, a first array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a first security system location;

receiving a user input to present a second array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a second security system location, and wherein the user input comprises a touch input; and

presenting, in the user interface, the second array of video content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch input is a gesture comprising a directional swipe.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a second touch input gesture in an opposite direction returns the user interface to presenting the first array of video streams.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a third touch input gesture in a same direction results in presenting a third array of video content for a third security system location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first array of video content comprises four panels presenting respective video streams, each video stream associated with a different security system camera at the first security system location.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising animating a transition from the first array of video content to the second array of video content responsive to the touch input.

7. A method comprising:

presenting, in a user interface of a mobile device, a first array of video content associated with a first security system location;

receiving a touch user input selecting a first video content of the first array for addition to a custom array of video content;

generating a custom array of video content and adding the first video content to the custom array of video content;

receiving a touch user input selecting a second video content of a second array of video content associated with a second security system location; and

adding the second video content of the second array to the custom array.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein generating the custom array of video content is performed in response to a user touch input dragging the selected first video content to a location in the user interface.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first array of video content comprises a panel of four video streams, each video stream associated with a different security system camera at the first security system location.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the user interface selectively displays the custom array or the first array in response to a user touch input gesture.

11. The method of claim 7, comprising:

receiving a touch user input selecting a second video content of the first array of video content; and

adding the second video content of the first array of video content to the custom array.

12. The method of claim 7, comprising:

receiving a touch user input selecting a first video content of a third array of video content, wherein the third array of video content is associated with a third security system location; and

adding the first video content of the third array of video content to the custom array.

13. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a mobile device, an input to present camera video content;

presenting, in a user interface, a first array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a first security system location;

receiving a user input to present a second array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a second security system location, and wherein the user input comprises a touch input; and

presenting, in the user interface, the second array of video content.

14. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

presenting, in a user interface of a mobile device, a first array of video content associated with a first security system location;

receiving a touch user input selecting a first video content of the first array for addition to a custom array of video content;

generating a custom array of video content and adding the first video content to the custom array of video content;

receiving a touch user input selecting a second video content of a second array of video content associated with a second security system location; and

adding the second video content of the second array to the custom array.

15. A system comprising:

one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving, at a mobile device, an input to present camera video content;

presenting, in a user interface, a first array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a first security system location;

receiving a user input to present a second array of video content, wherein the respective video content is associated with a second security system location, and wherein the user input comprises a touch input; and

presenting, in the user interface, the second array of video content.

16. A system comprising:

one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising;

presenting, in a user interface of a mobile device, a first array of video content associated with a first security system location;

receiving a touch user input selecting a first video content of the first array for addition to a custom array of video content;

generating a custom array of video content and adding the first video content to the custom array of video content;

receiving a touch user input selecting a second video content of a second array of video content associated with a second security system location; and

adding the second video content of the second array to the custom array.