NEIGHBORHOOD CAMERA LINKING SYSTEM

• US 20160309123A1
• Filed: 06/24/2016
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Edwards, Lewin A., Klinger, Jonathan, Garavuso, Mike
• Granted Patent: US 10,257,469 B2
• 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: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Systems and methods for linking neighborhood cameras and recording video from cameras that monitor public areas proximate neighborhood homes are provided. Some methods can include providing a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings, detecting an alarm event in a first security system of the plurality of security systems, and responsive to detecting the alarm event in the first security system, instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method comprising:

providing a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings;

detecting an alarm event in a first security system of the plurality of security systems; and

responsive to detecting the alarm event in the first security system, instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising saving the recorded video in a memory device.

23. The method of claim 22 further comprising designating each of the plurality of cameras as one of private, public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising displaying the saved video when a respective camera that recorded the saved video is designated as one of public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

25. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

detecting that a first of the plurality of cameras has been power cycled or physically moved; and

re-designating the first of the plurality of cameras as one of private, public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

26. The method of claim 21 further comprising linking the recorded video to a social network account of an owner of the respective building.

27. The method of claim 21 further comprising identifying a geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras.

28. The method of claim 27 further comprising linking each of the plurality of cameras to the respective security system based on the geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras.

29. The method of claim 27 further comprising:

determining a subset of the plurality of cameras based on the geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras relative to a geolocation of the first security system; and

responsive to detecting the alarm event in the first security system, instructing only the subset of the plurality of cameras to record video.

30. The method of claim 21 further comprising tracking a moving object across the recorded video from each of the plurality of cameras.

31. A method comprising:

providing a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings;

receiving instructions from a law enforcement user to record video; and

responsive to receiving the instructions from the law enforcement user, instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.

32. A system comprising:

a transceiver;

a programmable processor; and

executable control software stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium,

wherein the transceiver is coupled to each a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of cameras being linked to a respective security system in a plurality of security systems, each of the plurality of security systems protecting a respective building in a plurality of buildings,

wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software receive, via the transceiver, a first signal from a first security system of the plurality of security systems indicative of an alarm event detected by the first security system, and

wherein, responsive to the first signal, the programmable processor and the executable control software transmit, via the transceiver, a second signal to the plurality of cameras instructing the plurality of cameras to record video of a public area proximate the respective building in the plurality of buildings protected by the respective security system in the plurality of security systems linked to each respective camera in the plurality of cameras.

33. The system of claim 32 further comprising:

a memory device,

wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software receive, via the transceiver, the recorded video from the plurality of cameras, and

wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software save the recorded video in the memory device.

34. The system of claim 33 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software designate each of the plurality of cameras as one of private, public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

35. The system of claim 34 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software cause the saved video to be displayed when a respective camera that recorded the saved video is designated as one of public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

36. The system of claim 34 wherein, responsive to detecting that a first of the plurality of cameras has been power cycled or physically moved, the programmable processor and the executable control software re-designate the first of the plurality of cameras as one of private, public, available for law enforcement use, or available for use by neighbors.

37. The system of claim 32 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software identify a geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras.

38. The system of claim 37 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software link each of the plurality of cameras to the respective security system based on the geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras.

39. The system of claim 37 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software determine a subset of the plurality of cameras based on the geolocation of each of the plurality of cameras relative to a geolocation of the first security system and, responsive thereto, transmit the second signal to only the subset of the plurality of cameras.

40. The system of claim 32 wherein the programmable processor and the executable control software track a moving object across the recorded video from each of the plurality of cameras.