Mobile autonomous surveillance

• US 9,767,675 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Harman International Industries Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hutchings, Jeffrey L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieu, Julie
• Application Number:
  US14/827,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/12 wherein the cooperating elements are telecommunication base stations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19602 Image analysis to detect motion of the intruder, e.g. by frame subtraction
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Various embodiments relate to creating and utilizing a vehicle surveillance network to monitor objects and/or events. Messages may be broadcasted from at least one communication system of a surveillance network which is communicating with one or more vehicles of the surveillance network and received in a vehicle. Instructions may be transmitted to at least one vehicle camera to capture one or more images of objects or events outside of the vehicle in response to receiving the at least one broadcasted message. At least one vehicle camera in each of the vehicles of the surveillance network may capture the images of the object and/or events. Further instructions may include transmitting the captured images from the one or more vehicles to one or more event responders.

Claims

1. A system that utilizes a vehicle surveillance network, the system comprising:

at least one vehicle computer being configured to;

receive a first message indicative of a location of a dwelling from a roadside unit that is positioned on the dwelling;

transmit instructions to at least one vehicle camera in a first vehicle to capture one or more images corresponding to a security threat at the dwelling; and

transmit the one or more captured images corresponding to the security threat at the dwelling to one or more event responders.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first message includes global positioning satellite (GPS) data that identifies the location of the dwelling.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle computer is further configured to receive a second message indicative of the security threat being detected at the dwelling from the roadside unit.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the at least one vehicle computer is further configured to transmit the instructions to the at least one vehicle camera to capture the one or more images in response to receiving the second message.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle computer is further configured to transmit location information indicative of a location of the first vehicle to the roadside unit.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one vehicle computer forms part of a vehicle computing system that is configured to employ video analytics to track activity related to a motion of a perpetrator in connection with the security threat.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the vehicle computing system is further configured to determine a trajectory and a location of the perpetrator and where data corresponding to the trajectory and the location of the perpetrator is transmitted from the first vehicle to one or more receiving vehicles to track movement of the perpetrator.

8. A system that utilizes a vehicle surveillance network, the system comprising:

a roadside unit for being positioned on a dwelling, the roadside unit being configured to transmit a first message indicative of a location of the dwelling to at least one vehicle computer that transmits instructions to at least one vehicle camera in a first vehicle to capture one or more images corresponding to a security threat at the dwelling and that transmits the one or more captured images corresponding to the security threat at the dwelling to one or more event responders.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the first message includes global positioning satellite (GPS) data that identifies the location of the dwelling.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the roadside unit is further configured to transmit a second message indicative of the security threat being detected at the dwelling to the at least one vehicle computer prior to the at least one vehicle computer transmitting instructions to the at least one vehicle camera in the first vehicle.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the roadside unit is further configured to receive first location information from the at least one vehicle computer, the first location information identifying a location of the first vehicle.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the roadside unit is further configured to receive second location information from a receiving vehicle to identify a location of the receiving vehicle.

13. A system that utilizes a vehicle surveillance network, the system comprising:

at least one vehicle computer configured to;

receive at least one message from at least one communication system of a surveillance network, the at least one communication system communicating with one or more vehicles of the surveillance network;

transmit instructions to at least one vehicle camera to capture one or more images of objects or events outside of a vehicle in response to receiving the at least one message, wherein the at least one vehicle camera in each vehicle of the surveillance network captures the one or more images; and

instruct transmission of the one or more captured images from the one or more vehicles to one or more event responders,

wherein the at least one communication system includes an embedded modem in the vehicle and a server remote from the vehicle,

wherein the surveillance network is a vehicle to infrastructure network,

wherein the at least one communication system includes one or more roadside units for enabling vehicle to infrastructure communication, and

wherein the at least one vehicle computer is further configured to receive a first message indicative of a location of a dwelling from the one or more roadside units.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the first message includes global position satellite (GPS) data that identifies the location of the dwelling.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one vehicle computer includes one of at least one processor and memory.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one vehicle computer is further configured to transmit instructions to the at least one vehicle camera to capture one or more images corresponding to a security threat at the dwelling.