Systems and Methods for an Automated Cloud-Based Video Surveillance System

• US 20150381949A1
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Smartvue Corp. (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Renkis, Martin A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,084,995 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/41 Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items segmenting video sequences G06V20/49
• 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: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

Systems and methods for setting up a cloud-based video surveillance system with at least one computing device and at least one video camera in a local area network. The at least one computing device has an application program installed and is operable to find out the at least one video camera on the same local area network and connect the at least one video camera to a cloud platform. The video surveillance system is accessible via the at least one computing device locally or other computing device remotely. The video surveillance system is still at work when the at least one computing device is powered off.

Claims

1. A method for connecting an input capture device with at least one visual sensor to a cloud platform, comprising:

communicatively connecting a local computing device and the input capture device with the at least one visual sensor to a local communication network via a network device;

the local computing device querying the network device and identifying the input capture device;

the local computing device configuring the input capture device for communicating with the cloud platform;

the input capture device communicating visual data to the cloud platform;

wherein the visual data on the cloud platform are accessible by the local computing device locally and other authorized computing devices; and

wherein the visual data on the cloud platform are accessible by the other authorized computing devices even when the local computing device is powered off.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the local computing device and the other authorized computing devices are selected from the group consisting of:

personal computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, game consoles, smart TVs and other computing devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the input capture device with at least one visual sensor are selected from the group consisting of:

doorbells with embedded cameras, refrigerators with embedded cameras, ovens with embedded cameras, thermostats with embedded cameras, cars with embedded cameras and other similar smart devices with embedded cameras.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising installing and activating an application program associated with the cloud platform on the local computing device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the application program has a cloud-based account associated with the cloud platform.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising accessing the input capture device over the cloud platform with the cloud-based account.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the at least one visual sensor on the input capture device has a unique identifier, and wherein each of the at least one visual sensor is accessible under the cloud-based account associated with the cloud platform.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing cloud-based video analytics by the cloud platform.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing visual data from the input capture device on the cloud platform.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising selecting a time period for data storage on the cloud platform.

11. A system for cloud-based surveillance, comprising:

an input capture device with at least one visual sensor; and

a local computing device;

wherein the input capture device and the local computing device are communicatively connected to a local communication network via a network device;

wherein the local computing device is operable to;

query the network device and identify the input capture device; and

configure the input capture device for communicating with a cloud platform;

wherein the input capture device is operable to communicate visual data to the cloud platform;

wherein the visual data on the cloud platform are accessible by the local computing device locally and other authorized computing devices; and

wherein the visual data on the cloud platform are accessible by other authorized computing devices even when the local computing device is powered off.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the local computing device and the other authorized computing devices are selected from the group consisting of:

personal computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, game consoles, smart TVs and other computing devices.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the input capture device with at least one visual sensor are selected from the group consisting of:

doorbells with embedded cameras, refrigerators with embedded cameras, ovens with embedded cameras, thermostats with embedded cameras, cars with embedded cameras, and other similar smart devices with embedded cameras.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein an application program associated with the cloud platform is installed and activated on the local computing device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the application program has a cloud-based account associated with the cloud platform.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the local computing device and other authorized devices access to the device over the cloud platform with the cloud-based account.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein each of the at least one visual sensor on the input capture device has a unique identifier, and wherein each of the at least one visual sensor is accessible under the cloud-based account associated with the cloud platform.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the cloud platform provide analytics for the visual data.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the cloud platform provides storage for the visual data.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein a time period for data storage over the cloud platform is selectable.