WIRELESS CAMERA WITH MOTION DETECTOR AND FACE DETECTOR

• US 20160358433A1
• Filed: 06/04/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: August Home, Inc. (Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: August Home, Inc. (Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnson, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/731,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20160358433A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/166 using acquisition arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/167 using comparisons between temporally consecutive images
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00746 by knocking on a surface for inputting the code, e.g. detecting a series of taps on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00 Individual registration on entry or exit
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00896 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

A wireless camera system. One or more wireless bridges include a computing device, an internet-facing radio, and a second radio, a first radio within communication range of the second radio of the wireless bridge, and a third internet-facing radio responsible for transmitting video. One or more cameras are provided. A motion detection device coupled to the one or more cameras. In a first step the motion detection device detects motion of an individual approaching a dwelling, and in a second step if the motion detector detects the approach then the camera is turned on in sufficient time to take a face or body picture of the individual.

Claims

1. A wireless camera system, comprising:

one or more wireless bridges each including a computing device, an internet-facing radio, and a second radio, a first radio within communication range of the second radio of the wireless bridge, and a third internet-facing radio responsible for transmitting video;

one or more cameras;

a motion detection device coupled to the one or more cameras; and

wherein in a first step the motion detection device detects motion of an individual approaching a dwelling, and in a second step if the motion detector detects the approach then the camera is turned on in sufficient time to take a face picture of the individual.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the motion detection device is selected from at least one of, infrared (passive and active sensors);

optics (video and camera systems);

radio frequency energy (radar, microwave and tomographic motion detection);

sound (microphones and acoustic sensors);

vibration (triboelectric, seismic, and inertia-switch sensors); and

magnetism (magnetic sensors and magnetometers);

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more cameras consume less power in a standby mode in response to the internet facing radio consuming less power when configured to receive triggers and a third radio is efficient at transmitting video over the internet.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more wireless bridges is selected from at least one of a:

WiFi bridge, WiMax bridge, cellular bridge, a bridge with Bluetooth low energy a bridge that executes 802.15.4, a Zigbee bridge and a Z-wave bridge.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges determines how far the person is from the dwelling.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine if known or unknown people are at the exterior of the dwelling.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device when to determine if the person is approaching the dwelling.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine if the person is entering the dwelling from the exterior.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks lock operations of the intelligent door lock system.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the lock operations are either manual or via a mobile application.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks door movements of the dwelling.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges tracks door knocks at the dwelling.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges interacts with a cloud lock access services to gather and relay data.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges discovers the intelligent door lock system over Bluetooth device networking.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges discovers lock devices of the intelligent door lock system by scanning a Bluetooth LE network for connected devices.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges in operation obtains lock device status of the intelligent door lock system, wherein the status is one of a door being secured or unsecured.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges in operation communicates lock device activity of the intelligent door lock system.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges in operation communicates a dwelling door activity.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or bridges are at an exterior of the dwelling.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges uses detection of a Bluetooth device that is associated with a person to track signal strength between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine where the person is located at the exterior relative to the dwelling.

23. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an audio sensor configured to receive a sound from one or more non-internet connected devices.

24. The bridge of claim 1, wherein on a plug side at the dwelling a frequency of sound is determined from the one or more non-internet connected devices.

25. The bridge of claim 1, wherein on a plug side at the dwelling a frequency distribution of sound is determined from the one or more non-internet connected devices.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more bridges are in an interior of the dwelling.

2. A wireless camera system, comprising:

;

one or more wireless bridges each including a computing device, an internet-facing radio, and a second radio, a first radio within communication range of the second radio of the wireless bridge, and a third internet-facing radio responsible for transmitting video;

one or more cameras;

one or more Bluetooth devices or Bluetooth peripheral devices, collectively, Bluetooth devices in communication with the one or more bridges;

an intelligent door lock system in communication with the one or more bridges and the one or more Bluetooth devices; and

wherein in a first step the motion detection device detects motion of an individual approaching a dwelling, and in a second step if the motion detector detects the approach then the camera is turned on in sufficient time to take a face picture of the individual.

5. The system of claim one wherein the one or more cameras is a one demand camera system.